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    Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
    Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
    Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
    Audiobook10 hours

    Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

    Written by Alexander A. Cooley, PhD and John Heathershaw

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen

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    About this audiobook

    Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with more extensive involvement in economics, politics, and security dynamics beyond its borders than any other world region. Yet Central Asia's international activities are mostly hidden from view, with disturbing implications for world security.

    Based on years of research and involvement in the region, Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw reveal how business networks, elite bank accounts, overseas courts, third-party brokers, and Western lawyers connect Central Asia's supposedly isolated leaders with global power centers. The authors also uncover widespread Western participation in money laundering, bribery, foreign lobbying by autocratic governments, and the exploiting of legal loopholes within Central Asia. Riveting and important, this book exposes the global connections of a troubled region that must no longer be ignored.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 21, 2017
    ISBN9781515987635
    Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

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      Dreadfully boring an depressing topic. Authors achieve a miracle by keeping me reading. Incredibly restrained - if I cared about any of this my blood would boil every other sentence and I wouldn't be able to finish a paragraph.