Civil society and politics in Central Asia

Summary: The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. The region currently serves as the main route for transporting American and NATO supplies and personnel into Afghanistan. Its Turkic Muslim peoples share ethnic and religious roots with China's Uighurs in neighboring Xinjiang, where some Uighurs have connections to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, fueling Beijing's already acute fears of terrorism and separatism. Perhaps most importantly, the Caspian basin holds immense reserve.

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ISBN: 0813150779
ISBN: 9780813150772
ISBN: 0813150787
ISBN: 9780813150789
ISBN: 0813150795
ISBN: 9780813150796
Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 pages).
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Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]

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General Note:	CatMonthString:june.15 Multi-user. Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	Social capital and development of civil society in Central Asia : a path dependency perspective / Andrey A. Kazantsev -- Islamization and civil society in Central Asia : religion as substrate in conflict management and social stability / Reuel R. Hanks -- Islamic revival and civil society in Kazakhstan / Dilshod Achilov -- Negotiating social activism : national minority associations in Kazakhstan, or the other face of "civil society" / Marlene Laruelle -- Nonstate health care provision in Central Asia : cooperative or competitive? / Erica Johnson -- Service and public satisfaction : from functions to services : the case of Kazakhstan / Ken Charman and Rakhymzhan Assangaziyev -- Society in a period of transition : the perspective from the state / Ruslan Kazkenov and Charles E. Ziegler -- In good times and hard times : civil society roles in Kyrgyzstan today / Charles Buxton -- Society in chains : the dynamics of sociopolitical relations in Turkmenistan / Charles J. Sullivan -- Bridging the divide between neoliberal and communal civil society in Tajikistan / Sabine Freizer -- State, civil society actors, and political instabilities in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan : the changing international context / Graeme P. Herd and Maxim Ryabkov.
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