ABSTRACT

Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in the past decade, and the turn of these states towards despotism.

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

Central Asia in transition – the capital of sustainable development

chapter 1|20 pages

Natural capital

The Central Asian human and natural environment

chapter 2|20 pages

Human capital

Health, education, and science in Central Asia

chapter 3|21 pages

Formal organizational capital

Governments and markets

chapter 4|33 pages

Social capital

Civil society and solidarity

chapter 6|38 pages

Case studies

Internationalizing the Central Asian environment