Where Are All Our Sheep?

<ul> <li> Describes the path of economic and political liberalization chosen by post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and its eventual dependence on the outside world particularly on international aid.</li> <li> Explains how the Kyrgyz have turned this economic “opening up” into a subtle strategy to capture all manner of resources from abroad.</li> <li> Describes the encounters between the local population and the well-meaning foreigners who came to reform them.</li></ul>