Clans, Pacts, and Politics in Central Asia

Issue Date July 2002
Volume 13
Issue 3
Page Numbers 137-152
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This region’s five republics have just lived through a remarkable first decade of independence that raises questions about “preconditions”-based theories of democratization.

 

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