Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia

by David R. Lewis

After the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan the important but overlooked former Soviet states of Central Asia became for a brief time key players in the US-led war on terror. American and other Western military and economic aid poured in on the assumption that stability and greater democratisation would follow in its wake. But only a few years later the West's strategy to exert geopolitical influence in the region is in tatters. How did...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199326436
• ISBN13: 9780199326433
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"