First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction, Scott A. Jones; Part 1 Foreign Policy Development in the Southern Tier; Chapter 1 The Evolution of the Foreign Policy of the Transcaucasian States, Shireen T. Hunter; Chapter 2 Regional Security Prospects in the Caucasus, Alexander Rondeli; Chapter 3 Turkish Strategic Interests in the Transcaucasus, Scott A. Jones; Chapter 4 Trends of Strategie Thinking in Georgia States, David Darchiashvili; Chapter 5 U.S. Political Activism in Central Asia, Liam Anderson, Michael Beck; Chapter 6 Emerging Political Order in the New Caspian States, Shirin Akiner; Part 2 Conflict in the Caucasus and Central Asian Regions: Oil, Secession, and Questions of Outside Intervention; Chapter 7 NATO Expansion and Implications for Southern Tier Stability, Ewan W. Anderson; Chapter 8 Conflicts, Caspian Oil, and NATO, Elkhan E. Nuriye; Chapter 9 No War, No Peace in the Caucasus, Edward Walke; Chapter 10 A New Cycle of Instability in Georgia, Ghia Nodia; Part 3 Toward a Solution: Stemming the Flow of Weapons and Controlling Trade as a Policy Tool in the Southern Tier; Chapter 11 Developing Nonproliferation Export Controls in Georgia in the Context of the Emerging Eurasian Transportation Corridor, Mamuka Kudava, Cassady Craft; Chapter 12 Reconciling Disparate Views on Caucasus Security, Cassady Craft; Chapter 13 Perspectives on Security in Kazakhstan, Dastan Eleukenov; Chapter 14 Security Challenges for Kyrgyzstan, Orozbek Moldaliev;

Gary K. Bertsch is University Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Trade and Security (CITS) at the University of Georgia. He is co-editor of Arms on the Market: Reducing the Risk of Proliferation in the Former Soviet Union (Routledge, 1998).,
Cassady Craft is co-director of IntaLab-International Affairs Laboratory in Oklahoma City and author of Weapons for Peace, Weapons for War: The Effects of Arms Transfers on War Outbreak, Involvement, and Outcomes (Routledge, 1999).,
Scott A. Jones is Research Associate at CITS where he leads a project on surplus arms.,
Michael D. Beck is Assistant Director and Senior Research Associate at CITS.