Professional Affiliation

Director, The Finvola Group

Wilson Center Project

Understanding Implications and Impacts of Gendered Ethnicity in Consolidating Democracy: The Case of Central Asia’s Kyrgyzstan

Project Summary

hypothesis: the Western formula of democratic development is flawed because gender, ethnictiy, and nationalism have been absent in Western concepts of democratic assistance United States foreign assistance to the Newly Independent States, via the case study of Kyrgyzstan democracy; ethnicity; gender; nationalism