TY  - GEN
AU  - Cummings, Sally N.
TI  - Understanding central Asia: politics and contested transformations
SN  - 9780415297035
U1  - 320.958 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Social science
KW  - Political science
KW  - Asia, Central - Politics and government - Textbooks
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-232) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -