ABSTRACT
In the Central Asian region, human rights and democracy are intractably linked with some of the most topical and controversial issues of todays world, forming a web that cannot be handled in the way Alexander the Great dealt with the Gordian knot. The former US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Raymond Seitz, speaking of the UK and the United States, wrote, If a democracy becomes only a matter of asserting rights merely an excuse for licence then society can rapidly become a mele of self-indulgence. Liberal democracy is a political regime that has to combine and balance equality and liberty, market economy and democracy. Western liberal market economies, especially the United States and Great Britain, where individual liberties have reached high levels of development, may need to pay more attention to the issue of equality they may have to balance libert with a higher portion of galit, though the cut-throat competition with emerging markets in the Far East.
