ISBN:
978-0-415-60200-6
,
978-1-138-08665-4
,
978-0-203-09488-4/eBook
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 285 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
first issued in paperback
Series Statement:
Central Asian Studies Series 27
Keywords:
Zentral-Asien Kasachstan
;
Usbekistan
;
Turkmenistan
;
Tadschikistan
;
Kirgisien
;
Russland
;
Politik
;
Institution
;
Reform
;
Wirtschaft
;
Regierung
;
Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
;
Wirtschaftspolitik
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Kulturwandel
Abstract:
The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms of the institutional environment that have been largely neglected. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores key aspects of institution building as well as economic and political governance in Central Asia. Contributors from a variety of disciplines, such as economics, political economy, political science, sociology, law, and ethnology, investigate the challenges of institutional transition in a non-democratic region. The book discusses how the lack of effective institution building as well as rule enforcement in the economic and political realms represents one of the key weaknesses and drawbacks of transition, and goes on to look at how crafting market institutions will be of utmost importance in the years ahead. Making an important contribution to understanding of political-economic developments in Central Asia, this book is of interest to students and scholars of political economy, comparative economics, development studies and Central Asian studies.
Description / Table of Contents:
Economic transition and institutional change in Central Asia / Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen -- Market reform and institutional changes in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan : paradoxes and prospects / Herman W. Hoen and Farrukh Irnazarov -- Social capital and the formation of a market economy : the case of Uzbekistan / Manuela Troschke -- Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi / Richard Pomfret -- Poverty, governance, and participation in Tajikistan / Frank Bliss -- The political economy of Kazakh foreign policy / Andrea Schmitz -- The institutional persistence of patrimonialism in the Kyrgyz Republic : testing a path dependency (1991-2010) / Rube´n Ruiz Ramas -- The political economy of governance reform in Central Asia / Jo¨rn Gra¨vingholt -- Informal integration and decentralization in Central Asia / Alexander Libman -- Analyzing bottlenecks for institutional development in Central Asia : is it oil, aid, or geography? / Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert -- Will Russia regain its dominant role in Central Asia? / Martin C. Spechler and Dina R. Spechler -- Central Asia and Russia : two alternative perspectives / Alexander Libman -- Policy transfer between the European Union and the countries from Central Asia / Nienke de Deugd -- The USA and Central Asia : Intermittent allies / Dina R. Spechler and Martin C. Spechler -- Central Asian countries : forms of international integration and the impact of the crisis of 2008 / Martin Myant and Jan Drahokoupil.
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