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Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era

Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era

Hohmann, Sophie
Mouradian, Claire
Serrano, Silvia

Hardcover

Series: Library of International Relations

General Asian HistoryGeneral European HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1780765797
ISBN13: 9781780765792
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Jun 25 2014
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the so-called 'last empire', in 1991, the countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan - and of the Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - became independent nations. These countries, previously production centres under the socialist planning system of the Soviet Union, have made enormous economic adjustments in order to develop - or attempt to develop - along capitalist lines. As this study will show, however, inequality in Central Asia and the Caucasus is widening, as the Soviet systems of healthcare and state provisions disappear. Rejecting the Cold War-era East/West paradigm often used to analyse the development of these nations, this study analyses development along the North-South lines which characterise the migration patterns and poverty levels of much of the rest of the developed world. This opens up new avenues of research, and helps us understand why it is, for instance, that this region is better characterised as a 'new South' - as skilled workers flood out of the territories and into Russia and Western Europe.

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