TAYIKISTAN, ENTRE APARENTE ESTABILIDAD Y NUEVOS RETOS

• Main Author: Ignacio Prieto Vázquez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UNISCI 2017-10-01
• Series: Revista UNISCI
• Subjects: Tajikistan; Emomali Rahmon; Taliban; Civil War; Authoritarianism
• Online Access: http://www.unisci.es/tayikistan-entre-aparente-estabilidad-y-nuevos-retos/

Geographical isolation, poor political relevance of the country during the period of its membership in the USSR, weak ethnic, religious, linguistic and regional cohesion resulted in the delay of the period of consolidation of a functional and stable government in Dushanbe for almost a decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. When at last it happened under the aegis of Emomali Rahmon, it was to be prolonged in time. Factors such as the break-in of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, the Allied intervention in that country to disband it and its return from 2013 to a political-military front in a country whose turbulences affects stability in Tajikistan, made imperative the solidity of any government in Dushanbe. A conjunct skillfully exploited by Rahmon to cling to power and try to make it hereditary for his family and clan.