ABSTRACT
This volume offers the first systematic comparison of political change, leadership style and stability in Central Asia. The contributors, all leading international specialists on the region, offer focused case-studies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, comparing how the regimes have further consolidated their power and resisted change.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 5|23 pages
An economy of authoritarianism?
Askar Akaev and presidential leadership in Kyrgyzstan
