Alexander A. Cooley

Dictators Without Borders offers a penetrating look into the unrecognised and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centres of power and wealth throughout the West. Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are often dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they really? This hard-hitting...