Master's Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 74 von 80, Vrije University Brussel, 48 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This thesis attempts to combine a issue-specific local focus with a global systematic approach providing two different explanatory concepts underlying the understanding of Hizb-ut Tahrir`s emergence in Central Asia and in particular in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in order to find out if the historical background, the ideology, the organizational structures, the aims and current activities of the movement are able to form the basis of a revolution that might sweep away the regimes in place in the region.