A comprehensive assessment of the nature and evolving character of authoritarian regimes,
their changing character and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character …

Experience in developing countries of adjustment to macroeconomic imbalances and price
distortions showed that some short-run costs were inevitable before improvements came …

Over a decade after national independence, it is apparent that the contrasting development
strategies adopted by the five new governments of Central Asia have led to significantly …

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-
constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, political phenomena in Central …

The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the
former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much less uniform. The post …

Boundary Issues in Central Asia provides detailed answers to: What was the legal
framework within which the new states of Central Asia attained statehood? How did the …

The violence between the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 has shocked many who
thought of Kyrgyzstan as the most liberal country and the strongest democracy in Central …

During the years of Mikhail Gorbachev's programme of perestroika (1986–91), the territories
of Central Asia were the location for some of the worst incidents of ethnic conflict …

‪ The cotton affair, which overwhelmed Uzbekistan after 1983 and involved thousands of
state and party cadres, resulted in Rashidov's memory being stained and in extensive …

When the five Central Asian republics gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991,
expectations of violent conflict were widespread. Indeed, the country of Tajikistan suffered a …