Research on Systemic Transformation in the Countries of Central Asia

Abstract

The article presents the goals, tasks, organization and major stages of implementation of the international programme of research on transformation in the countries Central Asia. The research has been conducted since 1997 by a team of political scientists from the University of Warsaw in cooperation with representatives of other Polish and foreign universities.

Keywords

• post–communism
• velvet revolutions
• ethnopolitics
• political modernization
• political tradition
• political transformation
• uzbekistan
• turkmenistan
• tajikistan
• kyrgyzstan
• kazakhstan
• central asia
• research programme