The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence

by Marat; Erica

• ISBN13: 9780415493475
• ISBN10: 0415493471
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 influence they had on the state and society.

Author Biography

Erica Marat is a Central Asia analyst. She specializes in military institutions, state-building, and organized crime in post-colonial states, with a special interest in the Central Asian region. She is an author of numerous academic and policy publications, including The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction: Military and state-building in Central Asia	p. 1
Central Asian military during the Soviet regime	p. 8
"We won the war": Competing memories of the Soviet war in Afghanistan	p. 33
Military institutions as part of state-building during independence	p. 53
Russian Bear v. Asian Tiger: Competing regional security quasi-regimes	p. 81
NATO and the West in Central Asia	p. 104
From internationalist to post-Soviet nationalist military	p. 116
Conclusion: What lies ahead?	p. 133
Notes	p. 140
Bibliography	p. 150
Index	p. 155
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