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  • Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"

    Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society

    by Marlene Laruelle, Johan Engvall, Diana Asanalieva, Aisalkyn Botoeva, Asel Doolotkeldieva, David Gullette, Erica Marat, Madeleine Reeves, Elmira Satybaldieva0, Regine A. Spector1, Bermet Zhumakadyr kyzy2, Emil Nastridinov3, John Heathershaw4, Shairbek Juraev5, David W. Montgomery6 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country opened up massively to Western influence through development aid for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in 2010. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The State as Investment Market

    Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective

    by Johan Engvall ...
    Series Book 24 - Central Eurasia in Context
    Based on a detailed examination of Kyrgyzstan, Johan Engvall goes well beyond the case of this single country to elaborate a broad theory of economic corruption in developing post-Soviet states regionally—as a rational form of investment market for political elites. He reveals how would-be officials invest in offices to obtain access to income streams associated with those offices. Drawing on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Dream Palace of the Arabs

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    by Fouad Ajami ...
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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
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  • The Barefoot Lawyer

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    by Chen Guangcheng ...
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  • South Korea since 1980

    by Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig ...
    Series series The World Since 1980
    This 2010 book examines the changes in politics, economics, society, and foreign policy in South Korea since 1980. Starting with a brief description of its history leading up to 1980, this book deals with South Korea's transition to democracy, the stunning economic development achieved since the 1960s, the 1997 financial crisis, and the economic reforms that followed and concludes with the North ... Read more

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  • Tibet on Fire

    Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule

    by Tsering Woeser ...
    Translated by Kevin Carrico ...
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  • Dictators Without Borders

    Power and Money in Central Asia

    by Alexander A. Cooley, John Heathershaw ...
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  • Korea Focus - January 2012 (English)

    by Korea Focus ...
    Series series Korea Focus
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  • Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics

    Edited by Adam Cathcart, Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Christopher K. Green ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
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  • Overwhelming Terror

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    Series series War and Peace Library
    This powerful ethnography of a people believed to be the least violent in the world explores how they maintain peaceful relations even under the most dire circumstances. Robert Knox Dentan, the world's foremost scholar of Semai, brings its members vividly to life. His book includes translations of their poetry, dramatized accounts of particular events, and extensive quotations from a wide range of ... Read more

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