Muslim Clergy vs. Authority in Contemporary Afghanistan: View from Uzbekistan

Coordination through Authority vs Consensus

One of the deÞning characteristics of organizations is the presence of a managerial hierarchy which coordinates economic activity by use of authority. Organizations, however, also frequently delegate decisions to groups of agents committees, cross-functional teams as opposed to managers. This paper proposes a model of organizational decision-making with endogenous communication costs and puts f...

Cultural Patterns of Health Care B eliefs and Practices among Muslim Women in Uzbekistan

Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics

I propose a concept of effective sovereignty to argue that states participate in sovereignty regimes that exhibit distinctive combinations of central state authority and political territoriality. Two basic conclusions, drawing from recent research in political geography and other fields, are that sovereignty is neither inherently territorial nor is it exclusively organized on a state-by-state b...

The United States and Russia in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran

Before 1991, the states of Central Asia were marginal backwaters, republics of the Soviet Union that played no major role in the Cold War relationship between the USSR and the United States, or in the Soviet Union’s relationship with the principal regional powers of Turkey, Iran, and China. But, in the 1990s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union coincided with the re-discovery of the energy reso...

Adolescent egocentrism: a contemporary view.

This study sought to determine whether adolescent egocentrism is displayed during adolescence in the same patterns as when the constructs were first defined in 1967. We empirically revisited the constructs of personal fable and imaginary audience in contemporary adolescents, hypothesizing a decrease in egocentrism with increasing age. Adolescents (N = 2,390) responded to a self-report measure o...