Institutional reform in Central Asia : politico-economic challenges
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Institutional reform in Central Asia : politico-economic challenges
(Central Asian studies series, 27)
Routledge, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms of the institutional environment that have been largely neglected.
Through an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores key aspects of institution building as well as economic and political governance in Central Asia. Contributors from a variety of disciplines, such as economics, political economy, political science, sociology, law, and ethnology, investigate the challenges of institutional transition in a non-democratic region. The book discusses how the lack of effective institution building as well as rule enforcement in the economic and political realms represents one of the key weaknesses and drawbacks of transition, and goes on to look at how crafting market institutions will be of utmost importance in the years ahead.
Making an important contribution to understanding of political-economic developments in Central Asia, this book is of interest to students and scholars of political economy, comparative economics, development studies and Central Asian studies.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Overview 1. Economic transition and institutional change in Central Asia Part 2: Country-specific investigations 2. Transition strategies in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan since independence: paradoxes and prospects 3. Social capital and the formation of a market economy: the case of Uzbekistan 4. Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi 5. Poverty, governance, and participation in Central Asia: The example of Tajikistan 6. The political economy of Kazakh foreign policy 7. The institutional persistence of patrimonialism in the Kyrgyz Republic: Testing a path dependency (1991-2010) Part 3: Governance and institutions 8. The political economy of governance reform in Central Asia 9. Informal integration and decentralization in Central Asia 10. Analyzing bottlenecks for institutional development in Central Asia: Is it oil, aid, or geography? Part 4: External actors and international structures 11. Will Russia regain its dominant role in Central Asia? 12. Central Asia and Russia: Two alternative perspectives 13. The European Union and Central Asia: A case of policy transfer 14. The USA and Central Asia: Intermittent allies 15. Central Asian countries: Forms of international integration and the impact of the crisis of 2008
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