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 […]

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