The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century
was the original" great game." But in the past quarter century, a new" great game" has …

Constructing convincing legitimacy claims is important for securing the stability of
authoritarian regimes. However, extant research has struggled to systematically analyse …

Democracia identifica el proceso general que causa la democratización y la
desdemocratización a nivel nacional a lo largo del mundo durante los últimos siglos …

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform
postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style …

International sanctions are one of the most commonly used tools to instigate democratisation
in the post‐C old W ar era. However, despite long‐term sanction pressure by the E uropean …

Post-Soviet, post-conflict Tajikistan is an under-studied and poorly understood case in
conflict studies literature. Since 2000, this Central Asian state has seen major political …

If elections and civil liberties are the principal institutionalized mechanisms of democratic
governance, and if naked coercion is the centerpiece of hard authoritarianism, what allows a …

Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political, economic, and security …

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and
contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle …

The paper analyzes how the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
and the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) approach sustainable development in their …