Liberal Norm Compliance and Postcommunist Central Asia: Comparative Study of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan vis-à-vis the United Nations Convention Against Torture and its Optional Protocol
[Thesis]
Payam Foroughi
Yavuz, M. Hakan
The University of Utah
2017
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Committee members: Burbank, Matthew J.; Erturk, Korkut A.; Sluglett, Peter J.; Tong, Yanqi
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-77783-3
Ph.D.
Political Science
The University of Utah
2017
This dissertation's foci are the Central Asian states of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, two postcommunist states that are similar in territorial and population size; per capita income; history of Soviet subjugation; pro-Russian sentiments; reliance on remittances; and ratification of liberal treaties, including the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment (UNCAT). Related to the latter, the two states distinctively differ vis-à-vis allowance of independent monitoring of places of detention and ratification of UNCAT's Optional Protocol (OPCAT).
International Relations; Political science
Social sciences;Central asia;Kyrgyzstan;Liberal norms;OPCAT;Tajikistan;Torture;UNCAT