Title Dictators without borders : power and money in Central Asia / Alexander Cooley & John Heathershaw

Published New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2017] ©2017

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction : Central Asia beyond borders -- Inside-outside, onshore-offshore : how Central Asia went global -- Kazakhstan's most wanted : economic fugitive or democratic champion? The case of Mukhtar Ablyazov -- Tajikistan : the president of the warlords and his offshore state -- Uzbekistan's closed polity and global scandal -- Kyrgyzstan's Prince Maxim and the Switzerland of the east -- The new offshore silk roads -- Political exiles and extraterritorial repression -- Conclusion : confronting the challenge of global authoritarianism Summary "A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West. Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with extensive involvement in economics, politics and security dynamics beyond its borders. Yet Central Asia's international activities are mostly hidden from view, with disturbing implications for world security. Based on years of research and involvement in the region, Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw reveal how business networks, elite bank accounts, overseas courts, third-party brokers, and Western lawyers connect Central Asia's supposedly isolated leaders with global power centers. The authors also uncover widespread Western participation in money laundering, bribery, foreign lobbying by autocratic governments, and the exploiting of legal loopholes within Central Asia. Riveting and important, this book exposes the global connections of a troubled region that must no longer be ignored"-- Provided by publisher Notes LCCN in CIP is 2016962066 "Release date: February 8, 2017." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Dictatorship -- Asia, Central Political corruption -- Asia, Central Globalization -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central Wealth -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central Power (Social sciences) -- Asia, Central Wealth -- Political aspects -- Western countries Power (Social sciences) -- Western countries HISTORY -- Modern -- 21st Century. HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Fascism & Totalitarianism. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics. Dictatorship Globalization -- Political aspects International relations Political corruption Politics and government Power (Social sciences) Diktatur Globalisierung Wirtschaftsbeziehungen SUBJECT Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001932 Asia, Central -- Relations -- Western countries Western countries -- Relations -- Asia, Central Subject Central Asia Western countries Zentralasien Form Electronic book Author Heathershaw, John, author. Yale University Press, publisher, distributor. ISBN 0300222092 9780300222098

  Permalink