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Routledge
464 Pages
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Routledge
456 Pages
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Routledge
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For better or worse, the former Soviet republics of Central Asia have largely completed their post-independence transitions. Over more than a decade, they have established themselves as independent states whose internal regimes and external relations have characteristic patterns and vulnerabilities both individually and as a group. The purpose of this volume is to assess both what has been... Read more
List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Map; Part I: Overview; 1. Central Asia: At the End of the Transition, Boris Rumer; Part II: The External Context; 2. Russia and Central Asia: Problems of Security, Irina Zviagel'skaia; 3. Russia: On the Path to Empire? Konstantin Syroezhkin; 4. China's Central Asia Policy: Making Sense of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Richard W. Hu; 5. Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia: The Influence of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Vyacheslav Belokrenitsky; Part III: The Internal Social and Political Context; 6. The Regime in Kazakhstan, Dmitrii Furman; 7. Uzbekistan: Between Traditionalism and Westernization, Evgeniy Abdullaev; Part IV: The Prospects for Economic Development; 8. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: Landlocked Agrarian Economies with an Unlimited Supply of Labor, Stanislav Zhukov; 9. Institutional Barriers to the Economic Development of Uzbekistan, Eshref Trushin and Eskender Trushin; 10. Kazakhstan: The Development of Small Raw-Material Exporters Under the Constraints of Globalization, Stanislav Zhukov; 11. Economic Ties Between Russia and Kazakhstan: Dynamics, Tendencies, and Prospects, Stanislav Zhukov and Oksana Reznikova; Index; About the Editor and Contributors.
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Boris Rumer
