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This paper seeks to answer the question, "Why do some military regimes cooperate in regime transitions to civilian rule?" There is a gap in the political science literature regarding regime transitions and post-transition politics in military regimes. The puzzle this paper addre…

This dissertation examines the divergent outcomes of transition from authoritarianism in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The former has emerged as the most democratic of the Central Asian republics, while the latter has reverted to authoritarianism. The study modifies conventional el…

My dissertation comparatively analyzes three puzzling cases of political transition—democratization in Kyrgyzstan, neo-authoritarianism in Uzbekistan, and regime disintegration in Tajikistan—which typify different trajectories in the post-Soviet and other post-colonial states. I…