Where Are All Our Sheep? : : Kyrgyzstan, A Global Political Arena / / Boris Petric.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Petric, Boris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)

After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan chose a path of economic and political liberalization. Only a few years later, however, the country ceased producing anything of worth and developed a dependence on the outside world, particularly on international aid. Its principal industry, sheep breeding, was decimated by reforms suggested by international institutions providing assistance. Virtually annihilated by privatization of the economy and deserted by Moscow, the Kyrgyz have turned this economic “opening up” into a subtle strategy to capture all manner of resources from abroad. In this study, the author describes the encounters, sometimes comical and tinged with incomprehension, between the local population and the well-meaning foreigners who came to reform them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Map of Central Asia -- Map of Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction – SOMEONE ATE ALL OUR SHEEP -- Chapter 1 – MANAS, UNESCO, AND THE KYRGYZ FABULA -- Chapter 2 – KYRGYZSTAN AND GOOD GOVERNANCE EXPERTS -- Chapter 3 – ELECTIONS AND THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY -- Chapter 4 – THE FALL OF THE COMMON HOUSE -- Chapter 5 – THE BAZAAR: SYMBOL OF A SOCIETY OF TRADERS -- Chapter 6 – CIVIL SOCIETY AND ELECTION MONITORING -- Chapter 7 – THE TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF POLITICS -- Conclusion – THE KYRGYZ LABORATORY AND GLOBAL POLITICS -- Afterword – FROM KYRGYZ FABULA TO ETHNIC APOCALYPSE? -- Appendix 1 – KYRGYZ REPUBLIC TIMELINE -- Appendix 2 – CENSUS OF KYRGYZSTAN POPULATION -- INDEX