China now seems the most likely actor to take a position in the post-withdrawal Afghanistan, while it remains to be seen whether Beijing wishes to engage in a conflict that the USSR and NATO had difficulty in controlling before it
Afghanistan has been a priority area for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ... ... create an American outpost on the USSR’s Central Asian border.
Andrey Kazantsev:
Afghanistan Crisis: Security Problems for Russia and Central Asian States
The situation deteriorated rapidly in the late 1970s, and the Kremlin organized a military intervention ...
1. More cohesion in NATO?
According to the balance-of-threat assumption the lack of unambiguous threat decreases ... ...
Accordingly, the next year should provide an answer for the following question: Is fear of Russia and percieved threat in Europe sufficient for increasing defense capabilities... ... the U.S. did in Vietnam. You just cannot combat these guys from the sky!
3. Whither Afghanistan?
Well, it's pretty simple. A president of Kabul is not a president...
The New Five-Year Plan for Russia-NATO
No conceptual document of the Russian Federation – neither the
National ... ... NATO continued practical cooperation in what they considered critical areas, such as Afghanistan. It became clear that even facing such a conflict situation, Russia and... ... the European missile defense issue should be resolved within the framework of Russia-USA relations, and NATO is well aware of this. As the Permanent Representative of Russia...
A New Great Game and ideological conflict
The divergence of Russian and Western views on the future of Afghanistan and Post-Soviet Central Asia can become one of the main obstacles on the way to cooperation after the withdrawal of NATO forces in 2014. This paper contains the analysis of these divergences as well as proposals on concrete spheres of cooperation.... ...
There is a difference in geographical outlook on Central Asia development prospects that Russia and the West (especially, the USA and UK) have. These positions have developed because of their specific interests and specific historical experience. These ...
