Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies

by Mariya Y. Omelicheva

Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of Central Asia, in particular, seem to be ""democracy resistant,"" and their governments have continued to support various forms of authoritarianism in the decades following the Soviet Union's collapse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813160685
• ISBN13: 9780813160689
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher