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  • Tajikistan’s Difficult Development Path
    Martha Brill Olcott
    Tajikistan teeters on the brink of failure. This mountainous and landlocked country, the poorest in Central Asia, confronts the challenges of good governance and economic survival. These domestic struggles become even more problematic as international forces prepare to withdraw from neighboring Afghanistan, leaving Central Asian countries to ensure regional stability.In Tajikis...
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    15,04 €

  • In the Whirlwind of Jihad
    Martha Brill Olcott
    In Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous country, Islam has been an ever-present factor in the lives of its people and a contentious force for political officials trying to build a secular and authoritarian government.In the Whirlwind of Jihad examines the intertwined and evolving relationships between religion, the state, and society in Uzbekistan from the late 1980s to tod...
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    15,17 €

  • Central Asia’s Second Chance
    Martha Brill Olcott
    A leading authority on Central Asia offers a sweeping review of the region’s path from independence to the post-9/11 world. The first decade of Central Asian independence was disappointing for those who envisioned a straightforward transition from Soviet republics to independent states with market economies and democratic political systems. Leaders excused political failures by...
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    19,51 €

  • Everyday Islam
    Martha Brill Olcott / Sergei P. Poliakov
    With a growing population, deteriorating economic conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become a trouble spot. Instead Islamic traditionalism has survived and flourished in Central Asia. This book looks at the reasons why. ...
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    88,42 €