Roads and rivals : the political uses of access in the borderlands of Asia

Mahnaz Z. Ispahani. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 259-276. In Roads and Rivals, Mahnaz Ispahani explores the crucial but unacknowledged role that land routes have played in the strategic, political, and economic evolution of those borderlands. She shows that routes are a pivot around which a regional biography can be written and provides ample evidence for the link between security and development policies of Third World states j.ctvr7f4xp.1 j.ctvr7f4xp.2 j.ctvr7f4xp.3 j.ctvr7f4xp.4 j.ctvr7f4xp.5 j.ctvr7f4xp.6 j.ctvr7f4xp.7 j.ctvr7f4xp.8 j.ctvr7f4xp.9 j.ctvr7f4xp.10 j.ctvr7f4xp.11 j.ctvr7f4xp.12 j.ctvr7f4xp.13 j.ctvr7f4xp.14