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Dictators without borders : power and money in Central Asia
- Title
- Dictators without borders : power and money in Central Asia / Alexander Cooley & John Heathershaw.
- Author
- Cooley, Alexander, 1972-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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- Additional Authors
- Heathershaw, John
- Description
- xvi, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Dictatorship > Asia, Central
- HISTORY > Modern > 21st Century
- Western countries > Relations > Asia, Central
- Asia, Central > Politics and government > 1991-
- Wealth > Political aspects > Western countries
- Asia, Central > Relations > Western countries
- Power (Social sciences) > Asia, Central
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Economics
- Political corruption > Asia, Central
- Diktatur
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Fascism & Totalitarianism
- Wealth > Political aspects > Asia, Central
- Power (Social sciences) > Western countries
- HISTORY > Asia > Central Asia
- Zentralasien
- Globalization > Political aspects > Asia, Central
- Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
- Globalisierung
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-280) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3482
- ISBN
- 9780300208443
- 0300208448
- LCCN
- 2016045895
- OCLC
- 959871147
- Author
- Cooley, Alexander, 1972- author.
- Title
- Dictators without borders : power and money in Central Asia / Alexander Cooley & John Heathershaw.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-280) and index.
- Added Author
- Heathershaw, John, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3482