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Author–critic forum: popular protest and regime change in Central Asia

The ‘Author–Critic Forum’ consists of a standard review of a new book plus a number of shorter appraisals of it, and finally a response by the author to all these contributions. The choice of book is agreed upon by the editorship of the journal, the Editorial Board and the International Advisory Board. Books are selected because they engage pressing and contested theoretical and/or empirical issues within the broad field of Central Asian Studies. Explanations of regime formation and change in Central Asia are one of the most debated areas of political-science research into the region, and we thus considered it timely to bring an experienced and varied group of scholars together to consider Scott Radnitz’s important contribution to this discussion. The purpose of the format is to provide a lively forum that will acquaint the readership of the journal with the range of arguments, debates and issues within a particular field. The Book Review Editor invites rejoinders to the debate begun by this forum.