Central Asian Studies
Kyrgyzstan - Regime Security and Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Kemel Toktomushev
April 20, 2018
Kyrgyzstan is an interesting example of a relatively weak state, which for its brief period of independence has already ousted two presidents, experienced two revolutions, survived two interethnic conflicts and yet remained intact. This book explores this apparent paradox and argues that the schism...
Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia: The Making of the Kazakh and Uzbek Nations
1st Edition
By Grigol Ubiria
March 21, 2018
The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in new state-led nation-building projects in Central Asia. The emergence of independent republics spawned a renewed Western scholarly interest in the region’s nationality issues. Presenting a detailed study, this book examines the state-led ...
From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh
1st Edition
By Arsène Saparov
January 12, 2018
This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s – the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union. Seventy years later these ethnic autonomies were to become the loci of violent ethno-political conflicts which have ...
The Afghan-Central Asia Borderland: The State and Local Leaders
1st Edition
By Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
December 21, 2017
Based on extensive, long-term fieldwork in the borderlands of Afghan and Tajik Badakhshan, this book explores the importance of local leaders and local identity groups for the stability of a state’s borders, and ultimately for the stability of the state itself. It shows how the implantation of ...
Growing Up in the North Caucasus: Society, Family, Religion and Education
1st Edition
By Irina Molodikova, Alan Watt
October 23, 2017
Investigating changes in upbringing in the North Caucasus, a region notorious for violent conflict, this book explores the lives of the generation born after the dissolution of the USSR who grew up under conditions of turmoil and rapid social change. It avoids the ‘traditional’ presentation of the ...
Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations
1st Edition
By Alfrid K. Bustanov
October 13, 2017
Orientalism – the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected what they wrote about the East, the "Other" – applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of the many exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire, often in quite late imperial times, ...
Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics
1st Edition
By Rico Isaacs
May 24, 2017
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, political phenomena in Central Asia are shaped by informal political behaviour and relations. This relationship is now a critical issue affecting ...
Institutional Reform in Central Asia: Politico-Economic Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Joachim Ahrens, Herman W. Hoen
May 18, 2017
The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the ...
Mongolia Today: Science, Culture, Environment and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Dendevin Badarch, Raymond A. Zilinskas, Peter J Balint
January 20, 2016
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays written by experts in the field. The variety of topics provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary Mongolia. Topics include the impact of industrialization in Mongolia, environmental policies of the nation, the status of modern ...
Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika
February 05, 2015
This book provides a comparative history of Islamic education in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet countries. Case studies on Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and on two regions of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan and Daghestan, highlight the importance which Muslim ...
The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Enduring Legacies and Emerging Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda E Wooden, Christoph H. Stefes
May 15, 2014
Most books on the Caucasus and Central Asia are country-by-country studies. This book, on the other hand, fills a gap in Central Eurasian studies as one of the few comparative case study books on Central Eurasia, covering both the Caucasus and Central Asia; it considers key themes right across the ...
Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia: Communal Commitment and Political Order in Change
1st Edition
By Paul Georg Geiss
April 24, 2014
This study, written from the perspective of political sociology, represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region. It covers Turkman, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and other tribal societies, analyses the ...