Political Regimes and Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia
Serra-Massansalvador, Francesc / Izquierdo-Brichs, Ferran![Political Regimes and Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/382/38282935/CHSBZCOP0338282935.jpg)
This book is aimed both at researchers and advanced students of Central Asia, the space of the former USSR, and the foreign policy of Russia and China. The authors adopt a sociological approach in understanding how power structures emerged in the wake of the Soviet collapse. The independencies in Central Asia did not happen as a consequence of a nationalist struggle, but because the USSR imploded. Thus, instead of the elites being replaced, th...