Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development / Edition 1

by Sebastien Peyrouse

Overview

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to contemporary Turkmenistan in English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765632029
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Tables vii

Introduction ix

Part I Old Territory, Multiple Influences, New Nation 1

1 Turkmen Territory: Unity and Diversity 3

2 From Antiquity to the Khanates: A History of Fits and Starts 12

3 The Impact of Russian-Soviet Modernization 24

4 The Building of the Turkmen Nation 51

Part II Post-Soviet Technologies of Power 67

5 An Independence Marked by Niyazov's Authoritarian Rule 69

6 Culture and Religion: The Issues of Reconstruction 89

7 Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov: Illusion of a Khrushchevian Thaw? 108

Part III Development Challenges and Strategies 133

8 Turkmenistan from the Inside: Social and Economic Evolutions 135

9 The Future "Kuwait of Central Asia"? 169

10 Finding Its Place on the International Stage 193

Conclusions 219

Bibliography 225

Index 241

About the Author 249