A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

CENTRAL ASIA POST-SOVIET UNION

Ahmed Rashid, The Ressurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism, with a new introduction (New York: New York Review Books, 1994, 2017) (From the back cover: "seminal study of the states that emerged in the breakup of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan").