Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development - Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development (Paperback, New)

Contents: Turkmen territory: unity and diversity -- From antiquity to the Khanates: a history of fits and starts -- The impact of Russian-Soviet modernization -- The building of the Turkmen nation -- An independence marked by Niyazov's megalomania -- Culture and religion: the issues of reconstruction -- Berdymukhammedov: illusion of a Khrushchevian thaw? -- Turkmenistan from inside: social and economic evolutions -- The future Kuwait of Central Asia? -- Finding its place on the international stage.