ABSTRACT
This book seeks to explore the political-economic transitions in Central Asia and addresses the processes of economic reform, development and political change. Central Asian countries have received increasing attention from the international community, policymakers, foreign investors, and academics during the last decade. Owing to its rich resource endowments, the region has become important for advanced industrial countries as well as emerging economies. In addition, thanks to its geographical location between Russia and China, Europe and the Far East as well as in close neighbourhood to fragile states and threatened regimes such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Central Asia has gained strategic importance for the international community.
