The military and the state in Central Asia : from Red Army to independence / Erica Marat.
The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions and the influen...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Series: | Central Asian studies series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Military and state-building in Central Asia; 1 Central Asian military during the Soviet regime; 2 "We won the war": Competing memories of the Soviet war in Afghanistan; 3 Military institutions as part of state-building during independence; 4 Russian Bear v. Asian Tiger: Competing regional security quasi-regimes; 5 NATO and the West in Central Asia; 6 From internationalist to post-Soviet nationalist military; Conclusion: What lies ahead?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.