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Power and Change in Central Asiaby Sally Cummings
Routledge 2001; US$ 195.00This volume offers the first systematic comparison of political change, leadership style and stability in Central Asia. more...
Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asiaby Sally Cummings
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 44.95Approaching Central Asia from the perspective of geopolitics, transition, oil and stability, the authors provide a very broad and diverse analysis of the region, examining domestic and international developments since 1991. more...
Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asiaby Paul Georg Geiss
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 188.00This study represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region. more...
Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbijanby Vladimir Babak; Demian Vaisman; Aryeh Wasserman
Taylor & Francis 2000; US$ 188.00The book covers primarily the period from 1991 to 1994, which can be characterized as the first stage in the formation of a pluralistic society in these emerging states. more...
Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asiaby Pauline Jones Luong; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 37.00The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? more...
Central Eurasia in Global Politicsby Mehdi Parvizi Amineh; Henk Houweling
BRILL 2006; US$ 70.00This anthology brings together studies of post-colonial, post-Cold War, Central Eurasia. This part of the world is in transition to independent statehood, nation building and the release of market forces. The objective of the work is to better comprehend the process of state-nation building more...
Fighting Corruption in Transition Economies Kazakhstanby OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 98.00This report is a review of Kazakhstans legal and institutional framework for fighting corruption, in accordance with the framework provided by the Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies, based at the OECD. The review examines: (1) national anti-corruption policy and institutions currently in place in Kazakhstan; (2) national anti-corruption legislation and preventive measures to ensure integrity of civil service; and (3) effective financial control. The review process is based on the OECD practice of mutual analysis and policy formulation. The main input for the review was the self-assessment report prepared by the government of Kazakhstan. An international group of peers then provided an expert assessment and draft recommendations.... more...
The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasusby Amanda E Wooden; Christoph H. Stefes
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 135.00This book on the Caucasus and Central Asia considers key themes across the two regions. Providing a thorough overview of the area, the book examines issues including: political and socio-economic development, the role of the state, local government, human rights, ethnic groups, education and the environment. more...
Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?by Emilian Kavalski
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95This timely volume analyzes the quality of statehood in the region by assessing the complex dynamics of Central Asian state-making and focusing on the simultaneous patterns of socialization and internalization in the region - thus bringing Central Asia into the mainstream of systematic interrogation. more...
Fighting Corruption in Transition Economies, Tajikistan 2005by OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 42.00This book presents the outcomes of a review of legal and institutional frameworks for fighting corruption in Tajikistan, which was carried out in the framework of the Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies based at the OECD. The review examined national anti-corruption policy and institutions currently in place in Tajikistan, national anti-corruption legislation, and preventive measures to ensure the integrity of civil service and effective financial control. This publication contains the recommendations as well as the full text of the self-assessment report provided by the government of Tajikistan. more...









