CONTENTS:-
I. Geo-politics/geo-strategy:
1. Geographical perspectives on globalization: the view from Central Asia/Reuel R. Hanks.
2. The state ideologies in post-Soviet Central Asia: the ethnic dimension/Valeriy S. Khan.
3. Partnership for peace, prosperity and social progress in Central Asia/Kei Karasawa.
4. Regionalism in Central Asia/Zubaidullo Ubaidulloev.
5. Russia and Central Asia towards political and economic integration/Ajay Patnaik.
6. Tajik-Afghan ethnic relations and their impact on the Central Asian security/Elahee Kolaee.
7. SCO: a checkmate in the great game on a Grand Chessboard?/Gulshan Dietl.
8. Shanghai Cooperation organisation: challenges and prospects/Ramakant Dwivedi.
II. Geo-economics:
9. Realism and Middle powers in Central Asia/Gregory Gleason.
10. Sizing up conflicts over Central Asian resources: from past to the present/Mushtaq A. Kaw.
11. Geopolitics of Central Asia's oil and gas resources implications for India's energy security/Talmiz Ahmad.
12. An institutional analysis of the financial sector of the Central Asian Republics/Bushra Hamid.
13. Eurasian policy integration: theory and practice/Raushan Serik, Bela Syrlbaeva and Gregory Gleason.
14. Energy sector of Kazakhstan: potentialities and constraints/R.G. Gidadhubli.
15. Millennium development goals in Kazakhstan problems and priorities/Bolat L. Tatibekov.
16. Development in Central Asia: a case study of Kyrgyzstan/M. Chanachev.
17. Central Asia: migration and displacement implications/P.L. Dash.
18. Asiatic Russia and Greater Central Asia: geopolitical and geo-economic interconnections/Vladimir Boyko.
III. Historico-cultural relations:
19. The Soviet legacy and ethnic mapping in the post-Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia/Touraj Atabaki.
20. Central Asian Milieu during the 19-20 centuries/Mansura Haidar.
21. Women, traditions and national identity/Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva.
22. Socio-cultural challenges of Tajikistan in the 20 century/Abdurahim Juraev.
23. Labour migration process in post 1991 Central Asia/Naira Mkrtchyan.
24. Socio-cultural similarities between Chinese Turkestan and Kashmir/Aijaz A. Bandey.
25. The rise and decline of Indian trading community in Central Asia/Sanjay Kumar Pandey.
26. Ethno-religious movement in Xinjiang and Chinese development strategy/Debashish Chaudhuri.
27. Christianity under the Mongols in Central Asia/Mohd Rafiuddin Makhdumi.
IV. Bilateral Ties:
28. Kazakhstan and India: partners in regional cooperation/Kairat Umarov.
29. Indo-Kazakh relations in the Historical perspective/Ashok Mukerjee.
30. Uzbekistan: the confident move along the chosen path/Saydakamal S. Saydaminov.
31. People's liberation movements of Kazakhstan and India: a conceptual framework/Maznitov Sattar Fazylovich.
32. The present state of Indo-Tajik relations/Umed Nazarov.
33. India and Central Asia/P. Stobdan.
34. Central Asian policy of Mughal India Diplomacy and cultural contacts (1526-1605)/Jigar Muhammad.
35. Silk Route and Indo-Kyrgyz Ties: based on the Chinese and other sources/Indira Musaeva.
