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<p>central Asia, Home Of Tamerlane And The Silk Road, Is A Crossroads Of Great Cultures And Civilizations. In 1991 Five Nations At The Heart Of The Region - Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, And Uzbekistan - Suddenly Became Independent From The Ussr. Today They Sit Strategically Between Russia, China, And Iran, Holding Some Of The World's Largest Deposits Of Oil And Natural Gas. Long-suppressed Ethnic Identities Are Finding New Expression In Language, Religion, The Arts, International Alignments - And Occasional Civil Conflicts.. In The Decades Ahead, What Kind Of Societies Will The More Than 50 Million People Living In Central Asia Create? Single-party Secular States, Islamic Republics Market Democracies, Something Else?. Civil Society In Central Asia Is A Collection Of Essays By Scholars And Activists That Illuminates The Social And Institutional Forces Shaping This Important Region's Future. Are The Foundations Of A Democratic Order Emerging? As The Essays Suggest, Trends Are Contradictory And Vary In Each Country.</p> <h3>booknews</h3> <p>covering Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, And, Tajikistan, These 12 Essays (drawn From A 1998 Conference Sponsored By The

Author

M.Holt Ruffin, Daniel C.Waugh,University of Washington Press

Publisher

[Seattle]: Center for Civil Society International ; [Washington, D.C.]: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University ; Seattle: In association with University of Washington Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295800530

Subjects

Political Science, History, Anthropology