Searching for Kamalot: Political Patronage and Youth Politics in Uzbekistan

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Calculations based on the United Nations World Population Prospects, The 2008 Revision. The full population dataset is available online at: http://esa.un.org/unpp/, accessed 29 April 2009.

In the 1990s I studied the development of post-Soviet Uzbek bazaars and in the 2000s I have focused on the emergence of local Islamic associations and elites.

‘Uzbek President's Daughter Sings in Patriotic Chorus’, BBC Monitoring of International Reports, 7 January 2006, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009. For more on Kelazhak Ovozi, see the organisation's website, available at: http://www.kelajakovozi.uz, accessed 29 April 2009.

‘Journalism Contest Announced for News Agencies, Printed and Online Media’, UzReport.com, 19 August 2008, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Uzbekistan Founds Military Sports Camp for Difficult Children’, BBC Monitoring Central Asia Unit, 24 July 2003, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Young Uzbeks Skate against Drugs’, BBC Monitoring Central Asia Unit, 23 September 2003, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Marafontsy Napravalis’ v Bukharu’, Narodnoe Slovo, 1 December 2005, available at: http://old.narodnoeslovo.uz/?a=sport&c=show&id=65, accessed April 2009.

‘Young Andijan Athletes Compete to Condemn Terror’, BBC Monitoring International Reports, 5 July 2006, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘2008 the Year of Youth in Uzbekistan’, UzReport.com, 31 January 2008, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Ferghana Implements “Values, Customs, Traditions and Youth” Project’, Times of Central Asia, 28 March 2008, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘“Do You Know the Law” Nationwide Contest Ends in Jizzakh Region’, UzReport.com, 17 May 2007, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘4th International Education and Career Exhibition Opens in Uzbek Capital’, UzReport.com, 19 February 2009, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Uzbek Body Mulls Prevention of Religious Extremism among Minors’, BBC Monitoring Central Asia Unit, 23 December 2006, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘The First Stage of Charity Campaign Held in Tashkent’, Times of Central Asia, 24 July 2008, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Youth of Uzbekistan Interested in Cooperation with Azerbaijan Coevals’, Times of Central Asia, 21 July 2005, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

Calculations based on the United Nations World Population Prospects, The 2008 Revision, available online at: http://esa.un.org/unpp/, accessed 29 April 2009.

‘Uzbek Youth Movement Leader Says its Ranks Increasing’, BBC Monitoring International Reports, 2 February 2006, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

Although the IMF has encouraged the Karimov government to liberalise the domestic pricing of cotton, Uzbekistan's cotton farmers receive only a fraction of the international market price for their crop. For more on how the Karimov government extracts rents from the cotton industry, see International Crisis Group (2005).

Financial Times, 16 October 2004.

For a detailed discussion of inter-group competition and the politics of political survival, see Migdal (1988).

‘Uzbek President Slams Andijan Governor over Corruption’, BBC Monitoring International Reports, 25 May 2004, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Uzbek Chief Prosecutor Points to Corruption Crack-Down’, BBC Monitoring of International Reports, 23 April 2005, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘President Karimov Sacks Regional Governor: “Nepotism, Cronyism, Bribes Rife”’, Uzbek Radio Second Programme, 23 March 2000, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Uzbek Leader Warns of Perils of Mismanagement’, BBC Monitoring Central Asia Unit, 16 October 2004, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

‘Uzbek Leader Sacks Regional, District Governors’, BBC Monitoring Central Asia Unit, 16 December 2008, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

Author interviews with Tulkun Karaev, Karshi, November 2004 and author interviews with a prominent, though not state ‘accredited’ local imam and a human rights/political activist in Quqon, November 2004.

‘Uzbekistan Possibly on Way to “Velvet Revolution”’, AFX News, 17 May 2005, available via: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe, accessed April 2009.

Both domestic observers and international organisations such as the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) have forcefully criticised the United National Movement's (the UNM is the ruling party) electoral manipulations. For a detailed report of electoral abuse, see ‘OSCE/ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission, Final Report, Georgia Municipal Elections, 5 October, 2006’, available via: http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2006/12/22806_en.pdf, accessed April 2009. Dr Dot is the working name of Dorothy Stein, a masseuse whose website list of satisfied customers includes various show-business celebrities and the Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili. Dr Dot's video narrative of her trip to Georgia can be found on her website: http://www.drdot.com/index.php?movies=1.