Russia, America and the Islamic world

• Main Author: Bowker, Mike.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
• Series: Applied legal philosophy.
• Subjects: Terrorism > Government policy > United States.; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.; Iraq War, 2003-2011.; Terrorism.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > International. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > International Relations; United States > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > United States.; United States > Foreign relations > Islamic countries.; Islamic countries > Foreign relations > United States.; Electronic books.
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Mike Bowker examines the newly emerging relationship between Russia and the United States and their struggle against the common threat of international terrorism. He looks at the difficulties of such a relationship by analyzing the lingering mutual suspicion, differing views on the nature of the glo...

Table of Contents:

• The post-Cold War world and the clash of civilisations
• The Soviet war in Afghanistan
• The Gulf War, 1990-1991
• The wars in Yugoslavia : Bosnia and Kosovo
• The conflict in Chechnya
• 9/11 and the War on Terrorism
• Gulf War II : Iraq 2003
• Iran and nuclear proliferation
• Israel and the Palestinian question
• The Caucasus, Central Asia, and 'the coloured revolutions'
• America and Russia : democracy promotion.