2006
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Sébastien Peyrouse, « Central Asia Fifteen Years after Independence : An Ambiguous Balance Sheet », Politique étrangère, ID : 10670/1.9e57fa...
Nearly fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the New Independent States are about to assess their current political, economic, and social situation. These five republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), often gathered under the term “Central Asia,” have experienced different political and economic development patterns. They seem however to remain in the same regional group: the rise of authoritarianism, the connivance between the political circles and the mafia-like economic structures, the social, though limited, foothold of radical political Islam confirm the high political risk the region could go through in the long term.