Personality Cults in Turkmenistan: A Continuity between two presidents (Oh Hyeonjin, Jang Yongduk)

• Created 2022.07.12
• Writer관리자
• Views528

 

 

Abstract

 

This study analyzes the factors that enabled Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhamedow to break off from former President Niyazov but successfully construct his personality cult without causing much disorder—to this end, categorized and compared Niyazov and Berdimuhamedow's personality cults, respectively. As a result, there are internal similarities and continuity between the two presidents. In particular, the continuity found in the aspect of ethnicity and religion can be seen as the reason why the people were able to accept the transition without much disorder despite the superficial differences between the discourses advocated by the two presidents.

 

 

For full access to the article, please visit the following site of

http://peaceinstitute.hanyang.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=thesis_search&wr_id=167 

 

 

*This article is written in Korean.