Add to ORKG[Extract] While a new wave of democratic revolutions was widely expected in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, progress towards democratisation has proven slow. In many parts of the world, including Central Asia, victory in what Francis Fukuyama claimed was the last of history’s battles has proved elusive.2 Perhaps the most striking feature of the politics of Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has been the durability of the leader cults that have grown up around Presidents Nasultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan, and Saparmurat Niyazov in Turkmenistan
Attempts of regime survival, in particular a continuous re-election of the ruling regimes, is a comm...
Even though countries in Central Asia and Indonesia seem to be unrelated, both actually have experie...
This thesis investigates why extreme forms of personal rule arise and endure in the contemporary in...
Following independence and building on Gorbachev’s policy of perestroika, the democratic process in...
This article considers the Central Asian republics in the post-Soviet era and the fortunes of wester...
AbstractKyrgyzstan has experienced two violent overthrows of its government in recent years. Some ho...
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, Saparmurat Niyazov, the former First Secretary ...
Studies before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union indicated that the Bolsheviks have not bee...
Central Asia is a strange case in comparative political study. The individual countries within this ...
Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov (known as Turkmenbashy, or “father of Turkmens”), the long...
AbstractAfter gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian sta...
The countries of post-Soviet Central Asia share remarkable similarities: they came into existence ...
What happens to elites when the personalistic leader they supported for so long suddenly dies? This ...
No abstract available. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjia.v0i10.121 The Mongolian Journal of Inter...
The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the formation of a new geopolitical reality in the post-Sovi...
Attempts of regime survival, in particular a continuous re-election of the ruling regimes, is a comm...
Even though countries in Central Asia and Indonesia seem to be unrelated, both actually have experie...
This thesis investigates why extreme forms of personal rule arise and endure in the contemporary in...
Following independence and building on Gorbachev’s policy of perestroika, the democratic process in...
This article considers the Central Asian republics in the post-Soviet era and the fortunes of wester...
AbstractKyrgyzstan has experienced two violent overthrows of its government in recent years. Some ho...
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, Saparmurat Niyazov, the former First Secretary ...
Studies before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union indicated that the Bolsheviks have not bee...
Central Asia is a strange case in comparative political study. The individual countries within this ...
Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov (known as Turkmenbashy, or “father of Turkmens”), the long...
AbstractAfter gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian sta...
The countries of post-Soviet Central Asia share remarkable similarities: they came into existence ...
What happens to elites when the personalistic leader they supported for so long suddenly dies? This ...
No abstract available. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjia.v0i10.121 The Mongolian Journal of Inter...
The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the formation of a new geopolitical reality in the post-Sovi...
Attempts of regime survival, in particular a continuous re-election of the ruling regimes, is a comm...
Even though countries in Central Asia and Indonesia seem to be unrelated, both actually have experie...
This thesis investigates why extreme forms of personal rule arise and endure in the contemporary in...