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
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Payam Foroughi
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Yavuz, M. Hakan
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of Utah
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
276
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Burbank, Matthew J.; Erturk, Korkut A.; Sluglett, Peter J.; Tong, Yanqi
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-77783-3
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Political Science
Body granting the degree
The University of Utah
Text preceding or following the note
2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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).
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
International Relations; Political science
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Central asia;Kyrgyzstan;Liberal norms;OPCAT;Tajikistan;Torture;UNCAT