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Institutional Reform in Central Asia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms of the institutional environment that have been... more...
Central Eurasia in Global Politics
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...
Political Organization in Cen.Asia & Hb
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 188.00This work contains a selection of annotated documents, including party platforms and declarations of the major political groupings in the Islamic republics of the former Soviet Union. The 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...
Power and Change in Central Asia
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 200.00This volume offers the first systematic comparison of political change, leadership style and stability in Central Asia. The contributors, all leading international specialists on the region, offer focused case-studies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, comparing how the regimes have further consolidated their power... more...
Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia
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...
Democracy from Scratch
Princeton University Press 1996; US$ 52.50This book presents a fresh view of Russian political change in the Gorbachev and early post-Soviet periods not by examining perestroika and glasnost in and of themselves, but by investigating the autonomous political organizations that responded to liberalization. Extensive study of these political groups, in Moscow and several provincial cities,... more...
Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 190.00This study, written from the perspective of political sociology, represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region. It covers Turkman, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and other tribal societies, analyses the patrimonial state structures of the Emirate of Bukhara and... more...
Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 38.00The 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... more...
Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?
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...
Probleme des Vertragsrechts und der Vertragssicherung in den Staaten des Kaukasus und Zentralasiens
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2010; US$ 66.86Hauptbeschreibung Der vorliegende Sammelband enthält Aufsätze und Vorträge, die im Rahmen des von der VolkswagenStiftung finanzierten Projekts zur Erforschung des Zivil- und Wirtschaftsrechts der Staaten des Kaukasus und Zentralasiens auf einer Konferenz an der Universität Bremen im April 2008 vorgelegt wurden. Diese Tagung war bereits die zweite... more...









