Social disorder in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and other Arab countries has invariably led observers to regard Central Asia’s autocracies as potentially vulnerable to similar upheaval. Some Central Asian leaders have been in power for many years, and only Kyrgyzstan, the most impoverished of the five, has developed a competitive multi-party political system.
突尼斯、埃及、利比亚和其他阿拉伯国家的社会失序无不让观察家们认为中亚独裁者难逃相同的命运。某些中亚领导人掌权已经多年，只有其中最穷的吉尔吉斯斯坦建立了竞争性的多党制。在其他四国，政党要么力量十分薄弱，要么沦为了当局的工具。