Military and the State in Central Asia

Erica Marat is a Central Asia analyst. She specializes in military institutions, state-building, and organized crime in post-colonial states, with a special interest in the Central Asian region. She is an author of numerous academic and policy publications, including The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After (2006).

• 1: Central Asian Military during the Soviet Regime 2: "We Won the War": Competing Memories of the Soviet War in Afghanistan 3: Military Institutions as Part of State-Building during Independence 4: Russian Bear vs. Asian Tiger: Competing Regional Security Quasi-Regimes 5: NATO and the West in Central Asia 6: From Internationalist to Post-Soviet Nationalist Military Conclusions: What lies ahead?

'[T]his is a groundbreaking text. It raises numerous key topics that anyone with an interest in Central Asian politics and security ought to consider. Even though this book is not going to terminate discussion on any of the issues it brings up, it provides an essential starting point and will set the terms of future debate.'- Stephen Blank, US Army War College; Central Asian Survey, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2011