30 October 2000 Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism on the Silk Road by Neil Melvin. United Kingdom: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. 129 pages, in English.Western governments regularly criticize the strong-arm tactics of Uzbek President Islam Karimov and urge that he loosen his grip on the system. Karimov retorts that he must maintain tight control, so as to prevent the country from […]
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