Dictators without borders : power and money in Central Asia / Alexander Cooley & John Heathershaw.

ISBN:

9780300222098

Title:

Author:

Cooley, Alexander, 1972- author.

Personal Author:

Cooley, Alexander, 1972- author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

General Note:

LCCN in CIP is 2016962066.

"Release date: February 8, 2017."

Contents:

Introduction : Central Asia beyond borders -- Inside-outside, onshore-offshore : how Central Asia went global -- Kazakhstan's most wanted : economic fugitive or democratic champion? The case of Mukhtar Ablyazov -- Tajikistan : the president of the warlords and his offshore state -- Uzbekistan's closed polity and global scandal -- Kyrgyzstan's Prince Maxim and the Switzerland of the east -- The new offshore silk roads -- Political exiles and extraterritorial repression -- Conclusion : confronting the challenge of global authoritarianism.

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Subject Term:

Dictatorship -- Asia, Central.

Political corruption -- Asia, Central.

Globalization -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central.

Wealth -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central.

Power (Social sciences) -- Asia, Central.

Wealth -- Political aspects -- Western countries.

Power (Social sciences) -- Western countries.

Dictature -- Asie centrale.

Corruption (Politique) -- Asie centrale.

Mondialisation -- Aspect politique -- Asie centrale.

Richesse -- Aspect politique -- Asie centrale.

Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) -- Asie centrale.

Richesse -- Aspect politique -- Occident.

Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) -- Occident.

HISTORY -- Modern -- 21st Century.

HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Fascism & Totalitarianism.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.

Dictatorship

Globalization -- Political aspects

International relations

Political corruption

Politics and government

Power (Social sciences)

Diktatur

Globalisierung

Wirtschaftsbeziehungen

Geographic Term:

Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991-

Asia, Central -- Relations -- Western countries.

Western countries -- Relations -- Asia, Central.

Asie centrale -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1991-

Asie centrale -- Relations -- Occident.

Occident -- Relations -- Asie centrale.

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Yale University Press,

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2017

Publication Information:

New Haven, Connecticut :

Yale University Press,

[2017]

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Summary

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West

Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with extensive involvement in economics, politics and security dynamics beyond its borders. Yet Central Asia's international activities are mostly hidden from view, with disturbing implications for world security.

Based on years of research and involvement in the region, Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw reveal how business networks, elite bank accounts, overseas courts, third-party brokers, and Western lawyers connect Central Asia's supposedly isolated leaders with global power centers. The authors also uncover widespread Western participation in money laundering, bribery, foreign lobbying by autocratic governments, and the exploiting of legal loopholes within Central Asia. Riveting and important, this book exposes the global connections of a troubled region that must no longer be ignored.

Author Notes

Alexander Cooley is director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, and professor of political science, Barnard College. John Heathershaw is associate professor of international relations, University of Exeter.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In this timely analysis of the unexpected global dimensions of Central Asian politics, Cooley and Heathershaw, Central Asia experts at Columbia University and the University of Exeter, respectively, pull back the curtain on a region too often dismissed by Westerners as isolated and slumbering. The key to understanding the region, the authors argue, is not examining the internal dynamics of the authoritarian Central Asian states, but exploring the embedding of Central Asian elites in a vast transnational network of financial and legal creations-including offshore bank accounts, foreign arbitration, and tax havens-that are upheld by complicit Western institutions and mobilized toward ensuring the continued survival of those authoritarian regimes. "At the heart of this story is a failure in the international financial system to effectively identify money laundering when it occurs," the authors note. But the story they tell is about much more than corruption. They adroitly tie together topics as far-flung as the effects of piecemeal economic liberalization in the former Soviet Union, the rise of a cosmopolitan Central Asian elite, and the sordid underbelly of Western-style globalization. This is a lucid, iconoclastic primer on the region that demolishes the artificial distinction between domestic and international politics in Central Asia once and for all. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.