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This book analyzes the pattern of security concerns of the Central Asian successor states. This region is said to encompass Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirghizstan and Turkmenistan. The main contention of the book is that the security problems of these states are similar to those that faced other ""Third World"" countries after they attained independence. That is, due to the arbitrary creation of these states by external powers they lack a certain degree of societal cohesiveness arising from the fact that several ethnic communities reside within their borders. It is this so called ""insecurity dilemma"" of each of the Central Asian states that is therefore examined.

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...a fine introduction to the ethical and cultural divisions that threathen state stability in contemporary Central Asia. Journal of Asian Studies

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JOHN GLENN is lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Southampton University. He has spent five years researching nationalism in the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and has published several pieces in relation to this work : The Interregnum: The Continuation of the South's Insecurity Dilemma, State Legitimacy in Contemporary Central Asia and Nations and Nationalism: Marxist Approaches to the Subject.

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