تداوم سيستم اقتدارگرايي در آسياي مركزي

CONTINUING AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEM IN CENTRAL ASIA

The collapse of the communist system and the ensuing break up of Soviet Union re-defined the whole international system. For the global international community, it siginfied that the end of cold war and preceived victory of modern democracy and free market system over communist one. It was believed the newly independent republics of the Federation of the Soviet Union were firmly on the road to modern democracy. Such a belief was not totally happen in Central Asia in the first decade of independence and strong authoritarian presidentialism appeared in the five republics. This article aims where these regimes fit in terms of non democratic states, and what are the basic reasons for this type of authoritarianism regimes after communism.