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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      17 July 2009
      03 April 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511510014
      9780521839501
      9780521114660
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510014
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.666kg, 400 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 400 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    This book is a study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. Exploring the social, economic, and historical roots of clans, and their political role and political transformation in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, it argues that clans are informal political actors that are critical to understanding politics in this region. The book demonstrates that the Soviet system was far less successful in transforming and controlling Central Asian society, and in its policy of eradicating clan identities, than has often been assumed. In order to understand Central Asian politics and their economies, scholars and policy makers must take into account the powerful role of these informal groups, how they adapt and change over time, and how they may constrain or undermine democratization in this strategic region.

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    "The author is to be commended for seeking to reorient comparative politics toward the study of informal relations and politics and for her attention to Central Asia's pre-transition history. The book is stimulating."
    Sada Aksartova, Japanese Journal of Political Science

    "Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia is a stunning piece of scholarship on regime transformation. It is, by far, the best work to date on the dynamics of Central Asia's weak states. Collin's empirical research is impeccable and based on an array of sources gathered during three years of fieldwork. She buttresses every point, large and small, with on-the-ground interview material, ethnographic data, and well-considered secondary accounts. One can only hope that her attention to empirical detail will become the new standard among scholars of comparative politics. This is an empirically rich and theoretically stimulating book that deserves to be read adn deeply considered, by anyone who cares about Central Asia or the phenomenon of weak states." - Edward Schatz, University of Toronto The Russian Review

    "...should be welcomed by all scholars of contemporary Central Asia for their detailed and comparative description of the politics of independence in these three republics."--Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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