The books is an attempt to examine nature of evolving political culture and democratic development in the five states of Central Asia, namely, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. It highlights the historical and cultural factors influencing the political process in these states. The role of institutional as well as informal political factors like clan and civil society in shaping the democratization process has also been analysed. Radical Islam and inter and intra-ethnic conflicts in these states have also been examined in the present work.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nalin Kumar Mohapatra
Dr. Nalin Kumar Mohapatra, (born, 1972), completed his M.Phil and Ph.D from Centre for Russain and Central Asian Studies, (formerly Centre for Russian, Central Asian and East European Studies), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has worked as a Project Fellow in Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata and currently working as an Associate Editor of the triennial Journal, Contemporary Central Asia, published by Central Asian Studies Foundation (regd.), New Delhi. He has published a number of articles in different scholarly journals. Dr. Mohapatra has also conducted a special study on, "Ethno-Religious Conflict in a Multi-Cultural Society: A Study of China's North West Frontier Province of Xinjiang", which has been brought out as Azad Institute Paper-25,2004. Dr. Mohapatra visited Russia and Kazakhstan in November-December 2003 for field study sponsored by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies.
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