This paper discusses the need for a set of policies encouraging economic co-operation within the former Soviet Union states of Central Asia.<NOTER HREF="note1"></NOTER><NOTE ID="note1"><P>Central Asia is the focus of this report; however, the argument emphasizing the need for international assistance to support regional cooperation is valid...</p></note></noter>

One must assume that people in one's models do not know what is going to happen, and know that they do not know what is going to happen. --J. R. Hicks, quoted in P. Davidson (1981) This article presents the results of a series of exercises in the use of small-scale models to explain the spot...