Rediscovering Central Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denis Sinor (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 7-19 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0392192104047877 |
| OpenAlex | W2159614151 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
The expression ‘Central Asia’ has been in use for about a century and a half and has been known mainly by aficionados of 19th-century travelogues, or students of the history of the so-called Great Game played between the British and the Russians in the second half of the 19 th century. For the larger public of our times, there has been barely any political substance connected with the name. Luckily, or unluckily (it depends on one's point of view), since the fall of the Soviet Union the situation has changed drastically, and ‘Central Asia’ has become more widely known by journalists, a wider public and even by the civil servants working in various ministries of foreign affairs. A further and significant increase in the role played by Central Asian states in world politics occurred in the wake of a successful raid undertaken against the United States on 11 September 2001 by a group of young men with no connection to Central Asia. The attackers, usually referred to as terrorists, were all Arabs. Other Arabs and people of other nationalities, including British and American citizens, were trained for further attacks in Afghanistan, thus providing a pretext for the overthrow of the odious regime of the Taliban which then ruled over that country. Cooperation between the United States and Uzbekistan greatly facilitated their rapid defeat and a wider public became aware of the whereabouts of the river Amu-darya and of Uzbekistan
Central asia · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Physical geography · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · Terrorism · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |