Institutional reform in Central Asia :  politico-economic challenges / 
edited by Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen. 
 - xiii, 285 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
 - Central Asian studies series ;  27 .
 - Central Asian studies series ;  27. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Economic transition and institutional change in Central Asia / Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen -- Market reform and institutional changes in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan : paradoxes and prospects / Herman W. Hoen and Farrukh Irnazarov -- Social capital and the formation of a market economy : the case of Uzbekistan / Manuela Troschke -- Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi / Richard Pomfret -- Poverty, governance, and participation in Tajikistan / Frank Bliss -- The political economy of Kazakh foreign policy / Andrea Schmitz -- The institutional persistence of patrimonialism in the Kyrgyz Republic : testing a path dependency (1991-2010) / Rubén Ruiz Ramas -- The political economy of governance reform in Central Asia / Jörn Grävingholt -- Informal integration and decentralization in Central Asia / Alexander Libman -- Analyzing bottlenecks for institutional development in Central Asia : is it oil, aid, or geography? / Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert -- Will Russia regain its dominant role in Central Asia? / Martin C. Spechler and Dina R. Spechler -- Central Asia and Russia : two alternative perspectives / Alexander Libman -- Policy transfer between the European Union and the countries from Central Asia / Nienke de Deugd -- The USA and Central Asia : Intermittent allies / Dina R. Spechler and Martin C. Spechler -- Central Asian countries : forms of international integration and the impact of the crisis of 2008 / Martin Myant and Jan Drahokoupil. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415602009 9780415602006 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012013428 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Organizational change--Asia, Central
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia, Central--Foreign relations<br/>Asia, Central--Politics and government<br/>Asia, Central--Economic conditions<br/>Asia, Central--Economic policy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JQ1079.5.O73  / I57 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.958