13 November 2002 BALTIMORE, United States, 13 November (Eurasianet)–A decade ago, Western policy-makers tended to view the collapse of the Soviet empire as part of a broader global shift toward democracy. By the late 1990s, however, those early assumptions had proven overly optimistic. Indeed, many of the states of Central Asia and the Caucasus are today taking swift steps backwards–toward […]
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