Situating the 'Tulip Revolution'

Central Asian Survey

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 241-252

  Cummings, Sally N ^a,b   Ryabkov, Maxim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

'Coloured revolution'; Democratization; Elites; Informal groups; Kyrgyzstan; State building

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIZATION; ELITE POLITICS; POLITICAL CONFLICT; STATE BUILDING;

ASIA; EURASIA; KYRGYZSTAN; WEST ASIA;

TULIPA;

EID: 57849127931     PISSN: 02634937     EISSN: 14653354     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02634930802535847     Document Type: Article

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