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Introduction / S. Frederick Starr -- Political and cultural history of the Xinjiang region through the late 19th century / James A. Milward and Peter C. Perdue -- Political history and strategies of control, 1884-1978 / James A. Milward and Nabijan Tursun -- The Chinese program of development and control, 1978-2001 / Dru C. Gladney -- The great wall of steel: military and strategy in Xinjiang / Yitzhak Shichor -- The economy of Xinjiang Call Wiemer -- Education and social mobility among minority populations in Xinjiang / Linda Benson -- A "land of borderlands": implications of Xinjiang's trans-border interactions / Sean R. Roberts -- The demography of Xinjiang / Stanley W. Toops -- The ecology of Xinjiang: a focus on water / Stanley W. Toops -- Public health and social pathologies in Xinjiang / Jay Dautcher -- Acculturation and resistance: Xinjiang identities in flux / Justin Rudelson and Jonathan N. Lipman -- Islam in Xinjiang / Graham E. Fuller and Jonathan N. Lipman -- Contested histories / Gardner Bovingdon, with contributions by Nabijan Tursun -- Respnses to Chinese rule: patterns of cooperation and opposition / Dr C. Gladney

To date, the US response to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Central Asia and the Caucasus has been calm, if not tacitly supportive. Two main reasons for this are: (a) the reopening of age-old east–west trade corridors as one of the most important legacies of the collapse of the USSR and (b) it views the engagement of both China and Europe in east–west trade across Central Asia as furthering the Central Asians' own ability to achieve balanced and positive relations between all the major powers, thereby constraining hegemonic aspirations from any quarter. Further, the United States supports the emergence of Central Asia as a defined world region akin to ASEAN or the Nordic Council and believes that reforms under way in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in the region serve that end as well as increase east–west and west–east trade across the region. Finally, the United States realizes that the ultimate judgement on the viability of BRI in Central Asia and the Caucasus will be that of the market and not geopolitics.

John C. K. Daly . Published by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program in cooperation with the Jamestown Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace