Tajikistan amidst globalization: State failure or state transformation?

Central Asian Survey

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 147-168

  Heathershaw, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

denationalization; global assemblages; globalization; nationalism; state building; state failure; state formation; Tajikistan

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; NATIONALISM; POLITICS; STATE BUILDING; TERRITORIAL PLANNING;

TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 79954550998     PISSN: 02634937     EISSN: 14653354     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2011.554070     Document Type: Article

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