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Issue: Focus on Central Asia
Volume XVI, 2000
The articles in this volume give a scientific and human description of the scale and scope of the breakdown of a way of life that governed human affairs in Central Asia until last decade of the twentieth century. This research addresses an urgent need to understand the global, regional, and national context within which development must take place.
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Joyce Connery
Caught Between a Dictatorship and a Democracy:
Civil Society, Religion and Development in Kyrgyzstan
Eric Eversmann
Dropping Out: School Attendance in the Kyrgyz Republic
Jamshid Gaziev
Islamic Revival in Post-Independence Uzbekistan
L.M. Handrahan
Implications of International Human Rights Law and Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
Sarah Prosser
Taliban Dogma and Power: Looking for the Sources
Martin C. Spechler
Regional Cooperation in Central Asia:
Promises and More Promises
Michael Strauss
The Growth and Natural Resource Endowment Paradox:
Empirics, Causes & the Case of Kazakhstan
Book Reviews
Review by Amyn B. Sajoo
Civil Society in Central Asia edited by M. Holt Ruffin and Daniel Waugh
Review by Alexander Danilovich
Russian Politics in Transition: Institutional Conflict in a Nascent Democracy by Nikolai Biryukov and Victor Sergeyev
Review by Nurbek Omuraliev
The Formation of Post-Soviet International Politics in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Rafis Abazov