The New Central Asia : Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations epub

The New Central Asia : Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations by Professor Olivier Roy

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Author: Professor Olivier Roy
Number of Pages: 222 pages
Published Date: 01 Oct 2007
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780814776094
File size: 38 Mb
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In a new, revised edition of his acclaimed book, Olivier Roy examines the political development of central Asia, from Russian conquests to the War on Terror and beyond.During the anti-Gorbachev coup in August 1991, most communist leaders from Soviet central Asia backed the plotters. Within weeks of the coup s collapse, those same leaders now transformed into ardent nationalists proclaimed the independence of their nations, adopted new flags and new slogans, and discovered a new patriotism.How were these new nations built among peoples without any traditional nationalist heritage and no history of independent governance? Roy argues that Soviet practice had always been to build on local institutions and promote local elites, and that Soviet administration as opposed to Soviet rhetoric was always surprisingly decentralized in the farflung corners of the empire. Thus, with home-grown political leaders and administrative institutions, national identities in central Asia emerged almost by stealth.Roy s analysis of the new states in central Asia Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikstan, Kirghizstan and Azerbaijan provides a glimpse of the future of an increasingly fragmented and dangerous region."

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