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1 online resource (163 pages) |
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Routledge advances in Central Asian studies |
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Routledge advances in Central Asian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration; 1 Introduction; Summary of the argument; An interactive approach; Methodology; Plan of the book; 2 The cases of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in light of theories and explanations of violent conflict; Social and political structure and history; Theoretical approaches to violent conflict; Evaluation of the factors emphasized by these theories in the examples of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan |
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Other factors found influential in the occurrence of violent conflict in literature on civil warSpecific factors stated in the literature on the Tajikistan civil war; 3 Political power networks; Regional identities in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; Reinforcement of regional identities and formation of elite networks by Soviet policies; The distribution of government positions and party posts among the political elites according to regional origin; Elite networks: region and beyond; 4 Transitional context, events and processes; Purges in Uzbekistan; Ethnic clashes |
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February 1990 events in TajikistanKarimov's rise to power in Uzbekistan; Policies toward Islam and nationalism during the Soviet period; Nationalist issues which emerged during the glasnost period; Opposition movements; The August 1991 coup and its repercussions in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan; The post-coup period in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan; 5 Network establishment, network activation and violence specialists; The role of network-establishing mediators; Network activations during demonstrations in Dushanbe; The National Guard and the activation of violence specialists |
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A war of regional animosities?Cracks within the Khujand elite; Regionalization of the conflict; How do ordinary people get involved and why do they fight?; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
When the five Central Asian republics gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, expectations of violent conflict were widespread. Indeed, the country of Tajikistan suffered a five-year civil war from 1992 to 1997. The factors that the literature on civil wars in general and on the Tajikistan civil war in particular cites as the causes of war were also present in Uzbekistan? but this country had a peaceful transition. Examining this empirical puzzle by isolating the crucial factors that caused war to break out in Tajikistan but not Uzbekistan, this book applies a powerful comparative approach to the broader question of why civil wars occur. Based on fieldwork in both countries, it challenges many common explanations of civil war both generally and in Tajikistan in particular. This includes highlighting the importance of elites? power perceptions, which have their origins in the interaction of structural-, process-, and network-related variables. Without examining these interactions, macro-structural explanations alone cannot explain the occurrence of civil war in one country and its absence in another. Applying the insights of bargaining theories of war from the literature on international relations to the civil war in Tajikistan, this book will be of interest to students of violent conflict, civil wars, Central Asia and Asian Politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civil war -- Tajikistan
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Civil war -- Uzbekistan
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Insurgency -- Uzbekistan
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Peace-building -- Uzbekistan
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Political violence -- Tajikistan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Civil war
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Insurgency
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Peace-building
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Political violence
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Tajikistan -- History -- Civil War, 1992-1997
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Tajikistan
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Uzbekistan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317805113 |
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1317805119 |
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9780415742412 |
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0415742412 |
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9781315814643 |
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1315814641 |
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