Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick, a Research Associate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, has written an interesting new monograph called Russia, China, and the United States in Central Asia: Prospects for Great Power Competition and Cooperation in the Shadow of the Georgian Crisis.
Despite fissures within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the competitive tendencies within the Sino-Russian partnership, Dr. Wishnick contends that the United States will not have an easy time achieving its aims in Central Asia. She argues that the rhetoric about a new Cold War in the aftermath of the Georgian crisis obscures the common interests the great powers share in addressing transnational problems in Central Asia.
Download the monograph (449 KB), published by the US Army's Strategic Studies Institute, by clicking the link above.
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