2012-13 Pomona College Catalog

Sep 26, 2024

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SOC 095 PZ - Contemporary Central Asia

CrsNo SOC 095 PZ

Fermented mare’s milk, the oil curse, bride kidnapping, dictators, atheists, Islamic radicalism, pipeline routes, U.S. strategic interests and democracy promotion. This course will introduce students to societies and cultures of Central Asia—a vast and highly volatile part of the world currently at the center of the renewed geopolitical struggle between the United States and Russia.