Description: The essays in this book look beyond the surface of Central Asian politics to discover the forces that are working for political change and continuity in this critical region of the world.
Brief description: Charles E. Ziegler is professor of political science and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Russia's Far East: A Region at Risk and Foreign Policy and East Asia: Learning and Adaptation in the Gorbachev Era.
Review Quotes:
A timely and much-needed work that will interest a wide range of scholars, teachers, and students of Central Asia. The volume illuminates differences between Western and Asian conceptions of civil society and explores the dilemmas of theorizing civil society in authoritarian contexts.
--Mariya Y. Omelicheva, author of Counterterrorism Policies in Central Asia