From the Arab street to the silk road: Implications of the unrest in North Africa for the central Asian States

Eurasian Geography and Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 228-241

  Clem, Ralph ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabs; authoritarian rule; Central Asia; civil liberties; corruption; Egypt; human rights; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Middle East; Muslim states; North Africa; Northern Distribution Network; regime change; Tajikistan; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; unemployment; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; HUMAN RIGHTS; ISLAMISM; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EGYPT; KAZAKHSTAN; TAJIKISTAN; TUNISIA; UZBEKISTAN;

EID: 79953715660     PISSN: 15387216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1539-7216.52.2.228     Document Type: Article

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