The Regional Dimensions to Security

PART I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 1. Introduction: Including the Other Sides of Afghanistan; Stephen Aris and Aglaya Snetkov 2. Regional Dynamics of the Soviet War in Afghanistan and its Aftermath; Artemy M. Kalinovsky 3. Afghanistan's Attitudes towards the Region; Amin Saikal PART II: NEIGHBORING AND REGIONAL STATES' PERSPECTIVES 4. Pakistan: Security Perspectives on Afghanistan; Shaun Gregory 5. Negotiating its Way In: India in Afghanistan; Rudra Chaudhuri 6. Underestimated and Ignored. Iran's Current Afghanistan Policy between Soft Power and Hard Measures; Andreas Wilde 7. The Other Power: Security and Diplomacy in Sino-Afghanistan Relations; Marc Lanteigne 8. Russia in Afghanistan: Enduring Interests, Domestic Challenges and Regional Strategies; Marlène Laruelle 9. Towards conflict resolution in Afghanistan: The perspective of the bordering Central Asian Republics; Farkhod Tolipov 10. The Kazakh and Kyrgyz Sides of Afghanistan: So Near and Yet So Far; Emilbek Dzhuraev and Shairbek Dzhuraev PART III: REGIONAL INTERDEPENDENCIES AND STRATEGIES 11. An institutionalized 'regional solution'? Regional organizations in the regional space surrounding Afghanistan; Stephen Aris 12. From Arc of Crisis to Arc of Opportunity? - The Political Economy of Regional Economic Cooperation; Michaela Prokop 13. The Fight against Drug Trafficking: Mechanisms of Regional Cooperation and their Limits.; Sebastien Peyrouse 14. Conclusion; Stephen Aris and Aglaya Snetkov ?