Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies - Hardcover

by Mariya Y. Omelicheva (Author)

Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of Central Asia, in particular, seem to be ""democracy resistant,"" and their governments have continued to support various forms of authoritarianism in the decades following the Soviet Union's collapse. In Democracy in Central Asia, Mariya Omeli

Author Biography

Mariya Y. Omelicheva is associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas and the author of Counterterrorism Policies in Central Asia.