1. Stephen Blank, “The United States and Central Asia,” in Central Asian Security: The New International Context, ed. Roy Allison and Lena Jonson, 140–145 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, and Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001).
2. See also Fiona Hill, “Une Stratégie Incertaine: La Politique des Etats-Unis dans le Caucase et en Asie Centrale Depuis 1991,” Politique Étrangère 66, no. 1 (2001): 96–108.
3. Pauline Jones Luong and Erika Weinthal, “New Friends, New Fears in Central Asia,” Foreign Affairs 81, no. 2 (2002): 69.
4. Annette Bohr, “Central Asia: Responding to the Multi-vectoring Game,” in America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership, ed. Robin Niblett (London: Wiley-Blackwell/Chatham House, 2010), 109.
5. U.S. House Committee on International Relations, “Central Asia: Terrorism, Religious Extremism, and Regional Stability” (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, October 29, 2003, Serial no. 108-71), 10 (emphasis in original).