A proliferation of security agencies responsible mainly to countries’ presidents, combined with pockets of civil strife and general lawlessness, have made policing the region a difficult businessby ROGER D. KANGAS, LOWELL BEZANIS, BHAVNA DAVE, ELIZABETH FULLER, and BRUCE PANNIER FIGHTING CRIME IN THE TRANSCAUCASUS and Central Asia is frequently undertaken by security branches other than the police. Out of necessity, […]

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