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Power and change in Central Asia / edited by Sally N. Cummings

Contributor(s): Cummings, Sally N [(ed.)].
Series: Politics in Asia series / edited by Michael Leifer. Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: viii, 158 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415255856.Subject(s): Political leadership -- Asia, Central | Post-communism -- Asia, Central | Power (Social sciences) -- Asia, Central | Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991-DDC classification: 320.958
Contents:
List of contributors. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction: power and change in Central Asia / Sally N. Cummings. - 2. Empire's aftermath: a comparative perspective / Dominic Lieven. - 3. Neopatrimonialism and the prospects for democratization in the Central Asian republics / John Ishiyama. - 4. Kazakhstan: an uneasy relationship- power and authority in the Nazarbaev regime / Sally N. Cummings. - 5. An economy of authoritarianism? Askar Akaev and presidential leadership in Kyrgyzstan / Eugene Huskey. - 6. Tajikistan: a president and his rivals / Muriel Atkin. - 7. Turkmenistan: Saparmurat Niyazov's inglorious isolation / Sally N. Cummings And Michael Ochs. - 8. Uzbekistan: the Karimov presidency - Amir Timur revisited / Roger D. Kangas. - Index.
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List of contributors. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction: power and change in Central Asia / Sally N. Cummings. - 2. Empire's aftermath: a comparative perspective / Dominic Lieven. - 3. Neopatrimonialism and the prospects for democratization in the Central Asian republics / John Ishiyama. - 4. Kazakhstan: an uneasy relationship- power and authority in the Nazarbaev regime / Sally N. Cummings. - 5. An economy of authoritarianism? Askar Akaev and presidential leadership in Kyrgyzstan / Eugene Huskey. - 6. Tajikistan: a president and his rivals / Muriel Atkin. - 7. Turkmenistan: Saparmurat Niyazov's inglorious isolation / Sally N. Cummings And Michael Ochs. - 8. Uzbekistan: the Karimov presidency - Amir Timur revisited / Roger D. Kangas. - Index.