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Uzbekistan's State-Building Fatigue
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2006
- pp. 127-140
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Authoritarianism is not a whim in Uzbekistan, but the integral feature of its traditional political culture--a tribal, clan-based society with no national civil society to speak of. Uzbek society is not fatally doomed to live under these traditions, but a democracy cannot be created overnight.