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Huskey, Eugene

 
9781538117071: Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World: A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan
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ISBN 10 : 153811707X ISBN 13 : 9781538117071
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2018

Synopsis

This unique work provides the only sustained political history of independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its society and the broader international order. Drawing on three decades of personal encounters with ordinary citizens and leading public figures, Eugene Huskey takes readers on a journey through the unlikely birth and tumultuous development of Central Asia’s most open society. Starting with the heady, romantic first days of independence and moving through the popular uprisings and inter-ethnic violence of recent years, he chronicles the struggles of a new state to establish a democratic order and to find its place in the international community, while caught between China, the Middle East, and the Russian world. At the center are the very human stories of leaders and citizens trying to navigate the transition from communism, where identities, property, and the rules of the political game were constantly in dispute. With citizens of independent Kyrgyzstan stripped of their Soviet identity, the book illustrates how alternative loyalties based on kinship, geography, statehood, and religion competed for prominence in ways that often complicated the new country’s political, social, and economic development.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eugene Huskey is William R. Kenan, Jr., Chair in Political Science at Stetson University. His research on Kyrgyzstan first took him to the country in 1992, six months after Kyrgyzstan’s emergence as an independent state. He has been back to Kyrgyzstan ten times since then to conduct research, teach at the American University of Central Asia, train Kyrgyzstani political scientists, and participate in a mission for the International Center for Transitional Justice.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
153811707X
ISBN 13 
9781538117071
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
251
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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