[CivilSoc] Two Interesting (and Free) Publications from Carnegie

[Center for Civil Society International]

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has recently announced
publication of two interesting "working papers." Both can be
downloaded for free in PDF format from the Carnegie website:
			www.ceip.org/pubs
One paper is by Martha Brill Olcott. With the tenth anniversary of
the independence of the five ex-Soviet Central Asian nations fast
approaching, she revisits and updates a paper she wrote five years
ago in which she discussed twelve myths about Central Asia.
The other paper is about the Internet and "authoritarian" regimes.
Two Carnegie Endowment staff argue, contrary to conventional
thinking, that viewed in a medium term time frame, dictatorial
governments have proved very capable of blunting the Internet's
supposedly democratizing impact. They show how anti-democratric
governments control and channel the technology through a variety of
means.  The two cases they focus on are Cuba and China, but their
thesis has broader applications.
Holt Ruffin
Civil Society International