Understanding Central Asia: Politics and Contested Transformations

By Sally N. Cummings

Book Overview

Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political, economic, and security challenges. Focusing on these five republics, this textbook analyzes the contending understandings of the politics of the past, present and future transformations of Central Asia, including its place in international security and world politics. Analysing the transformation that independence has brought and tracing the geography, history, culture, identity, institutions and economics of Central Asia, it locates 'the political' in the region.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415297036
• ISBN13: 9780415297035
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"