Independent Uzbekistan: Ten years of gradualism or stagnation?

Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 47-58

  Horsman, Stuart ^a  

^a FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203457771     Document Type: Chapter

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