TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sokolsky,Richard
AU  - Charlick-Paley,Tanya
ED  - Project Air Force (U.S.).
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - NATO and Caspian security: a mission too far? 
SN  - 0833027506
AV  - UA853.C27 S65 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
KW  - National security
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - Caspian Sea Region
KW  - Caucasus
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Strategic aspects
KW  - Defenses
N1  - "Project Air Force."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-113); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - This report attempts to put the Caspian Basin and Central Asia into a comprehensive strategic perspective at a time when NATO is increasingly concerned with challenges on its periphery. The authors examine NATO's interests, capabilities, and constraints as well as the salient trends and factors shaping the regional security environment. In spite of the region's potential energy riches and the jockeying for influence among major powers and oil interests, the authors suggest that NATO should see the region as a potential quagmire rather than as a vacuum waiting to be filled. The report discusses Western objectives and interests in the Caspian, internal and intraregional threats to Western interests, the competition for influence among outside powers, transnational threats, Caspian oil and energy security, and implications for NATO and Western policy and planning. The authors conclude that the West has limited interests and leverage in the Caspian Basin, and the Alliance should focus on promoting the restructuring and professionalization of indigenous armed forces, while resisting new commitments and security responsibilities in the region
UR  - http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1074/
ER  -