The Constitutional Systems
of the Independent Central Asian States: A Contextual Analysis
by Scott Newton (Author)
This book undertakes the
first comparative constitutional analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic and Republics
of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in their cultural,
historical, political, economic and social context. The first chapter provides
a general overview of the diverse and dynamic constitutional landscape across
the region. A second chapter examines the Soviet constitutional system in depth
as the womb of the Central Asian States. A third chapter completes the general
picture by examining the constitutional influences of the 'new world order' of
globalisation, neoliberalism, and good governance into which the five states
were thrust. The remaining five chapters look in turn at the constitutional
context of presidents and governments, parliaments and elections, courts and
rights, society and economy and culture and identity. The enquiry probes the
regional patterns of neo-Sovietism, plebiscitary elections, weak courts and
parliaments, crony capitalism, and constraints on association, as well as the
counter-tendencies that strengthen democracy, rights protection and pluralism.
It reveals the Central Asian experience to be emblematic of the principal
issues and tensions facing contemporary constitutional systems everywhere.
(Series: Constitutional Systems of the World) [Subject: Constitutional &
Administrative Law, Comparative Law, Asian Law]
