This work is part of the Integrating National Economies series.

Russia, Eurasia, and the Global Economy (Integrating National Economies : Promis and Pitfalls Series)

Business & Money

Rutland, Peter

Economics

Committee to Protect Journalists

This book examines how Kazakhstan is meeting the challenge of forging a stable state from a half-Slavic, half-Asian border territory.Last to declare independence, Kazakhstan could be among the wealthiest of the new states. Blessed with natural and human resources, a large territory, and an established infrastructure, the state could become a bridge between Europe and Asia. The population of 17 million is well enough educated to help form a varied economy, yet not so large as to become an economic burden. The population is deeply divided, however: the Kazakhs believe that they have realized nationalist dreams, while the Russians mourn a lost ascendancy.Kazakhstan's leaders have increasingly backed away from democratic principles, and growing corruption is undermining the state's commitment to economic reform. As American oil companies become more involved in Kazakhstan, the United States may in this country, as elsewhere, be drawn into defending unpopular leaders against the anger of their own people. The author urges that the United States press Kazakhstan to develop a political system that is free and fair and to use its vast natural wealth for the greater benefit of all its people.Martha Brill Olcott is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a professor of political science at Colgate University.

Kazakhstan: A Faint-Hearted Democracy

History

Olcott, Brill Martha

Asia

"The Committee to Protect Journalists... tries to help fellow journalists by exposing abuses and protesting them to those responsible. Governments alone cannot be relied upon to denounce assaults on free expression and to defend journalists."

Attacks on the Press 1990: A Worldwide Survey (Attacks on the Press)

Attacks on the Press in 1999 (A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists)

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The January 2002 abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl brought into sharp relief the dangers faced by journalists on assignment in areas of conflict. Scores of journalists are imprisoned every year because of what they have reported. Hundreds more are routinely subjected to physical attack, illegal detention, spurious legal action and threats against themselves or their families. Published annually by the non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the Press provides factual and non-sensationalized reports on violations of press freedom around the world. It covers press freedom abuses in more than 130 countries, including harassment, censorship, assault and assassination. It also gives detailed accounts of journalists jailed for challenging government orthodoxy in countries whose leaders would prefer a docile and obedient press. Attacks on the Press in 2001 chronicles the deaths of 37 journalists in 2001, including eight who were killed in Afghanistan during a deadly period in November 2001.

Attacks on the Press in 2001: A Worldwide Survey

Anne Garrells

Media & the Law

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