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Kyrgyzstan between democratization and ethnic intolerance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Andrew Baruch Wachtel*
Affiliation:
American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Email: awachtel59@gmail.com
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Abstract

The international community has expressed great concern about the treatment of the Uzbek minority in the south of Kyrgyzstan and has called on the majority community to make major efforts to improve the situation. The article compares the treatment of minorities in Kyrgyzstan with analogous situations in the Balkans and contends that, given the European-style ethnonational state model and democratic political system that have been adopted by independent Kyrgyzstan, such calls are unrealistic.

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Kyrgyzstannation-state developmentinterethnic relationsOsh “events”

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 6 , November 2013, pp. 971 - 986
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Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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