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Harvard Asia Quarterly Winter 2001 1 HAQ CONTENTS Harvard Asia Quarterly Winter 2001 1 HAQ CONTENTS HAQ Editorial Staff 4 Economics and Security in Central Asia Editor in Chief Robert M. Cutler Suzzanne Yao Robert Cutler presents a comprehensive survey of the most significant economic and Harvard Law School security issues in contemporary Central Asia, including an analysis of their evolution Executive Editor since 1991 and an evaluation of their future prospects. Thomas Cheng Harvard Law School Managing Editor Michael Arbogast Harvard Law School 13 ‘Asian Values’ and the Democratic Transition in Central Asia Production Editor Alice Yu Gregory Gleason Harvard Law School Gregory Gleason analyzes the significance of cultural differences for public policy in Photography Editor the countries of Central Asia and explains why international efforts to promote Alice Yu democratic institutions and processes have met with limited success. Harvard Law School Web Editor Matthias Lind Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 21 The Politics of History in Tajikistan: Reinventing the Area Editors Samanids Lindsay Beck, Co-China Editor Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Kirill Nourzhanov Julianna Lee, Korea Editor Producing a nationalist version of history has acquired special importance for the Graduate of School of Arts and Sciences leaders of independent Tajikistan as a means of reinforcing common Tajik identity, Owen Lewis, Japan Editor Harvard Law School particularly in the aftermath of the civil war. This article discusses the particulars of a Weishi Li, Co-China Editor campaign launched by President Rahmonov in March 1997 to reinvent and glorify the Harvard Law School Samanids and the ways in which it contributes to the general political discourse in Mario Moore, South Asia Editor Tajikistan. Harvard Law School Michou Nguyen, ASEAN Editor Harvard Law School Associate Editors Harvard Law School 31 From Tamerlane to Terrorism: The Shifting Basis of Joshua Bloodworth Hua Chen Uzbek Foreign Policy Kok-On Chen William D. Shingleton & John McConnell Malou Feliciano In February 1999, a series of major bombings in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent altered Gillian Koh Graduate School of Arts and Sciences the face of Uzbekistan’s government. The bombings caused a shift in foreign policy Xin Zhou based on nationalism to one focused on counter-terrorism. In this article, the impact of this shift on Uzbekistan’s relations with ‘greater Uzbekistan’, the other former Harvard Asia Quarterly Publishing Board Virginia Harper-Ho Soviet states, and the outside world are discussed. Harvard Law School `01 Victor Shih Graduate School of Arts and Sciences `02 Harvard Asia Quarterly 34 Elections in Central Asia: A New Beginning for a Faculty Advisory Board Professor W.P. Alford Comprehensive Environmental Strategy? Harvard Law School Daphne Biliouri Dean David Smith Harvard Law School The recent elections in three of the five Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Professor Hue-Tam Ho Tai and Uzbekistan) over the past two years have raised concerns over the path to Faculty of Arts and Sciences democracy and the effect such will have on the environmental policy of the region. Professor Ezra Vogel This article provides an overview of the existing situation and suggests that though Faculty of Arts and Sciences Professor Shang-Jin Wei the environment has become a priority for the leaders of Central Asia, the question Kennedy School of Government remains whether the international community is providing necessary assistance and support. Harvard Asia Quarterly 2 Winter 2001 Volume V, No. 1. Winter 2001 HARVARD ASIA QUARTERLY is a student pub- lication affiliated with the Harvard Asia Center. HAQ was established in 1997 by members of 39 Bankruptcy Law in China: Lessons in the Past the Harvard Asia Law Society in conjunction with Twelve Years students from other graduate and professional programs at Harvard University as an interdis- Dr. Li Shuguang ciplinary journal of Asian affairs. In this article, Professor Li examines the current state of bankruptcy law in China. He also outlines problems in the enforcement of the current bankruptcy law and LETTERS suggests how these problems can be remedied. HAQ welcomes readers’ letters and comments. HAQ reserves the right to decline to print corre- spondence, and to edit correspondence for length and format prior to printing. Letters should be addressed to the editor and submitted to the address below. 47 Was World Bank Support for the Qinghai Anti- SUBMISSIONS Poverty Project in China Ill-Considered? HAQ invites the submission of unsolicited ar- Pieter Bottelier ticles and essays to be considered for publica- In July 2000, China withdrew its request for World Bank financing for the Qinghai tion. Submissions should address matters of contemporary concern to Asia in the following anti-poverty project, one of the most controversial projects in the 54-year history of or related fields: political science; law; econom- the Bank. Mr. Bottelier expertly traces the events leading to the decision and raises ics; business and finance; social criticism; inter- important questions regarding the validity of the charges against the project and national relations; design; and the arts. Sub- the appropriate role and responsibility of the World Bank. missions should be delivered in hard copy and in electronic form on diskette. All submissions materials become property of HAQ. To receive HAQ Editorial Guidelines, submissions sched- ules, or additional information, please contact HAQ at the address below. 56 The US-Vietnam Trade Agreement SUBSCRIPTIONS Tai Van Ta Annual subscriptions to HAQ are available at a In this article, Tai Van Ta examines the US-Vietnam trade agreement and its rate of $28.00 for four issues for subscriptions likely impact on the Vietnamese economy and society. delivered in the United States and $45.00 for deliveries elsewhere. For more information, please contact HAQ or your academic periodi- cal subscription service. 62 Interview with Doan Viet Hoat Michou Nguyen On December 8, 2000, ASEAN editor Michou Nguyen conducted an interview Please address all correspondence to: with Vietnamese human rights observer Doan Viet Hoat. Dr. Hoat spoke on a Harvard Asia Quarterly variety of issues, from free trade and economic stability to President Clinton’s c/o Harvard Asia Center reception by the Vietnamese people. 1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Fax: (617) 495-9976 65 The Meaning of President Clinton’s Trip to Vietnam www.haqonline.org Chan Tran Chan Tran reflects upon President Clinton’s trip to Vietnam and its possible implications for human rights advancement in the country. Credits: Cover Design by Alice Yu 67 Book Review Phar Kim Beng No material appearing in this publication may Phar Kim Beng reviews Amitav Archarya’s The Quest for Identity: International be reproduced without the permission of the pub- Relations of Southeast Asia: “By his own admission, Amitav Archarya is not an lisher. The opinions expressed in this publica- Asianist. Rather, his niche is ‘Asian Pacific regionalism’. Two questions obviously tion are those of the contributors and are not necessarily shared by the editors or publishers. emerge: Can an entity as diverse as Asia-Pacific be labeled a ‘region’ without All statements of fact and opinion represent the skewing the meaning of the term? More importantly, have contemporary social work of the author, who remains solely respon- sciences developed the necessary tools and lenses to examine it?” sible for the content. All editorial rights reserved. Copyright © 2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. (ISSN 1522-4147). Harvard Asia Quarterly Winter 2001 3 ECONOMICS AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL ASIA BY ROBERT M. CUTLER eography puts Central Asia at a crossroads of global economy and security. At the height of the Roman Empire, the territory of Robert M. Cutler is Research Fellow at the Institute Gpresent-day Uzbekistan was astride the transcontinental trade of European and Russian Studies, Carleton routes between China and the West. The first Turkic state was estab- University, Canada. He was educated at the lished in present-day Mongolia in the middle of the sixth century. From Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of the eighth to the twelfth centuries, Islam expanded into the Caucasus Michigan. He has extensive practical experience and Central Asia from Arabia in the southwest. Next the migrations in Central Asia and former Soviet areas including came from the northeast, with the Mongol invasions during the 1200s Caspian-region energy development. He has done and 1300s, while other Turkic peoples came to Central Asia at the same consulting for a variety of international and nonprofit organizations and the business time. Subsequently, Muscovy (Moscow) consolidated its rule and pre- community, and served as an NGO Representative pared to expand into the Caspian region in the nineteenth and to the UN Economic and Social Council. He can be twentiethcenturies from the northwest. reached at <[email protected]>. Homepage: Today, the region is only re-acquiring its historical position as a <http://www.robertcutler.org>. stage across which there sweep vast waves of people and goods from nearly all directions of the compass. It opens to China and the rest of Asia in the east, Iran and Afghanistan and the rest of the Islamic world to the south, and Russia and the “new Eastern Europe” to the north and west. If the southeast is the only direction of the compass from which world-historical waves have not rolled over Central Asia, this is be- cause the Himalayas block mass international migration; however, they have not been a barrier to influences from India, Pakistan, and Afghani- stan in the south or from China in the east. Indeed, broadly speaking, “the East” has, since the fall of the USSR, come once again to signify the broad belt of culture stretching from North Africa to the Pacific that it was under the British Empire: the old Near East, which we now call the Middle East; the old Middle East, which we now call Southwest and Central Asia; and the Far East, which we now call the Asian-Pa- cific Rim.
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