Shahram Akbarzadeh - Uzbekistan and the United States: Authoritarianism, Islamism and Washingtons Security Agenda

SHAHRAM AKBARZADEH is a Senior Lecturer in Global Politics at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia. He has researched and published on Central Asian affairs for a decade. Dr Akbarzadeh has co-authored the Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan (Scarecrow Press, 2002) and co-edited Muslim Communities in Australia (University of New South Wales Press, 2001), Islam and Political Legitimacy (Routledge/Curzon, 2003), and Islam and the West: Reflections from Australia (UNSW Press, 2005).

Authoritarianism, Islamism and
Washingtons Security Agenda

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SHAHRAM AKBARZADEH

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Uzbekistan and the United States was first published in 2005 by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF, UK, and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA

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This project was made possible by the generous support of the Australian Research Council, the Faculty of Arts Research Initiative Grant Scheme at Monash University, and the Global Terrorism Research Unit at the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. I am indebted to Ms Elena Mogilevski for her systematic and meticulous collection and presentation of the primary sources, and her skills in locating rare documents. I also wish to register my gratitude to Professor John Miller (La Trobe University) for introducing me to Central Asia and putting up with my wide-eyed approach to the region during my doctoral studies; Professor Joseph Camilleri (La Trobe University) for rekindling my interest in Central Asia and providing much needed intellectual stimulation to sustain me over the course of research and writing for the present study; Assistant Professor Pauline Jones Luong (University of Yale) for her generosity of spirit and practical suggestions to improve this book; and Professor Yaacov Roi (University of Tel Aviv) for spending much more time on studying the entire book than I ever expected, offering many helpful tips, and accepting the invitation to write the Foreword. I am grateful for all this support and encouragement. As per the usual caveat, I bear sole responsibility for the content of this book.