Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This collection provides a broad analysis of social, political, economic, and security issues in contemporary Central Asia. In particular, the contrib... Lees meer

Constructing the Uzbek State

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its... Lees meer

The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This collection examines the social, economic, and political evolution of the South Caucasian states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia since the col... Lees meer

Eurasia's Shifting Geopolitical Tectonic Plates

Alexandros Petersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This anthology of articles, short studies, and interviews by Alexandros Petersen was written over the span of ten years, starting in 2004. Yet they ar... Lees meer

The European Union's Influence in Central Asia

Olga Alinda Spaiser

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This study examines the role of the European Union in Central Asian affairs. The author analyzes the various ways the European Union exerts influence ... Lees meer

Kazakhstan in the Making

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This collection is a multidisciplinary examination of modern-day Kazakhstan. It analyzes the country's fast-changing national identity, the current re... Lees meer

State-Building in Kazakhstan

Dina Sharipova

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This study examines informal institutions of reciprocity and their connections to state-building in Kazakhstan. The author analyzes both how these ins... Lees meer

The Central Asia-Afghanistan Relationship

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan. The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts--a se... Lees meer

Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature

Diana T Kudaibergenova

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This interdisciplinary study is a comprehensive survey of cultural discourse and literary production in Kazakhstan. It examines the construction of na... Lees meer

Soft Power in Central Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Central Asia often evokes images of imperial power rivalry dating back to the 19th century. Yet as the region's international politics becomes more co... Lees meer

The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925-1991

Peter Rollberg

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged nati... Lees meer

The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan

Tim Epkenhans

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This study provides a comprehensive account of the civil war that erupted in Tajikistan in 1992. Based on a wide range of primary sources, it analyzes... Lees meer

Modern Central Asia

Yuriy Malikov

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This source reader discusses Central Asian history through the context of Russian colonialism and its aftermath. It examines the influence of ethnonat... Lees meer

Integration in Energy and Transport

Alexandros Petersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• The South Caucasus region has established itself as a corridor for transporting energy from Azerbaijan to Georgia, Turkey, and on to Europe. This book... Lees meer

Visions of Development in Central Asia

Noor O'Neill Borbieva

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This book analyzes the anthropological concept of "culture" in the development sector of the Kyrgyz Republic. The author calls for a revitalization of... Lees meer

Soft Power in Central Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Central Asia often evokes images of imperial power rivalry dating back to the 19th century. Yet as the region's international politics becomes more co... Lees meer

Tajikistan on the Move

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody... Lees meer

Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions ... Lees meer

Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advoc... Lees meer

Visions of Development in Central Asia

Noor O'Neill Borbieva

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This book analyzes the anthropological concept of "culture" in the development sector of the Kyrgyz Republic. The author calls for a revitalization of... Lees meer

The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan

Murad Ismayilov

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This study examines the relationship between the Azerbaijani state and its society in the post-Soviet period. The author analyzes the growing cooperat... Lees meer

Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advoc... Lees meer

The Nazarbayev Generation

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• This social and cultural analysis provides a new understanding of Kazakhstan's younger generations that emerged during the rule of Nursultan Nazarbaye... Lees meer

New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan

Yerkebulan Sairambay

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Drawing from an extensive database and a cross-national comparative approach, this book examines the ways and reasons why new media promotes political... Lees meer