What It Takes to Avert a Regional Crisis: Understanding the Uzbek Government’s Responses to the June 2010 Violence in South Kyrgyzstan
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Uzbekistan played an important role during the June 2010 interethnic violence in South Kyrgyzstan by tightly controlling borders, allowing thousands of Kyrgyzstani refugees to cross into Uzbek territory, assisting in the shipment of international humanitarian assistance to Kyrgyzstan, and collaborating with the osce in the investigation of the causes of the violence. What explains Uzbekistan’s approach to the unrest in South Kyrgyzstan? Some scholars suggest that Uzbekistan’s response was shaped largely by external actors such as Russia. Others posit that domestic pressures account for the response. This article advances an alternative explanation: Tashkent’s response was largely a result of a consensus achieved at two levels: international and domestic. In explaining the impact of domestic level, the article emphasizes the role of bureaucratic politics—competition among various government agencies.
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In February 2009, President Bakiev’s administration adopted a decree evicting the us base at Manas Airport after Moscow announced that it was providing a loan to Bishkek, which amounted to $1.7 billion. Three months later, however, the Kyrgyz government signed a new agreement with the United States that allowed the base to stay, albeit under a changed status. The agreement came after the U.S. administration suddenly increased the rent price for the base from $17.4 million to $60 million annually. In retaliation, Moscow suspended the shipment of subsidized fuel to Kyrgyzstan and launched a smear campaign against the Bakiev government in early Spring of 2010. Moscow’s sanctions sparked public protests that culminated in the Bakiev government’s dramatic collapse on April 7, 2010.
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What It Takes to Avert a Regional Crisis: Understanding the Uzbek Government’s Responses to the June 2010 Violence in South Kyrgyzstan
In: Central Asian AffairsSearch for other papers by Alisher Khamidov in
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Uzbekistan played an important role during the June 2010 interethnic violence in South Kyrgyzstan by tightly controlling borders, allowing thousands of Kyrgyzstani refugees to cross into Uzbek territory, assisting in the shipment of international humanitarian assistance to Kyrgyzstan, and collaborating with the osce in the investigation of the causes of the violence. What explains Uzbekistan’s approach to the unrest in South Kyrgyzstan? Some scholars suggest that Uzbekistan’s response was shaped largely by external actors such as Russia. Others posit that domestic pressures account for the response. This article advances an alternative explanation: Tashkent’s response was largely a result of a consensus achieved at two levels: international and domestic. In explaining the impact of domestic level, the article emphasizes the role of bureaucratic politics—competition among various government agencies.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 467 | 129 | 40 |
| Full Text Views | 202 | 7 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 96 | 18 | 0 |
