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National ideology and state-building in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan / Erica Marat. - Uppsala : Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala University, 2008. - 100 p. (Silk Road paper) This study focuses on the production of national ideologies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan since 1991. Both states are strongly
http://www.isdp.eu/files/publications/srp/08/em08nationalideology.pdf

e-book (2007). Thanks to the collapse of the USSR, whose closed border stood like a wall across the heart of Eurasia, to China's decision to open trade across its western border, and to the gradual return of Afghanistan to the community of nations, continental trade spanning the entire Eurasian land
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/GCA.html

In Tajikistan, the ‘income-based’ framework used to analyse poverty has obscured its multiple dimensions, resulting in an inappropriate national Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. A social exclusion framework that considers the causes of poverty stands a better chance of generating policies that will
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