TY - CHAP
T1 - Iran and Central Asia
T2 - Radical Regime, Pragmatic Politics1
AU - Menashri, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1998 Frank Cass and Co. Ltd.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - WHILE THE DISSOLUTION of the Soviet Union may be considered ‘The Event of Our Era’, the independence of the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union has clearly changed the face of the Middle East.2 As the new republics began a crucial search for self-identity, a quest for domestic rehabilitation and formation of guidelines for their foreign relations, outside countries - notably the neighbouring Muslim states of the Middle East, particularly Turkey and Iran - rushed in to offer co-operation, to advance their own interests and to prevent any other possible ramifications.
AB - WHILE THE DISSOLUTION of the Soviet Union may be considered ‘The Event of Our Era’, the independence of the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union has clearly changed the face of the Middle East.2 As the new republics began a crucial search for self-identity, a quest for domestic rehabilitation and formation of guidelines for their foreign relations, outside countries - notably the neighbouring Muslim states of the Middle East, particularly Turkey and Iran - rushed in to offer co-operation, to advance their own interests and to prevent any other possible ramifications.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134947332&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315037493-8
DO - 10.4324/9781315037493-8
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AN - SCOPUS:85134947332
SN - 9780714641294
SP - 73
EP - 97
BT - Central Asia Meets the Middle East
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -