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Central Asia Research Forum


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Central Asia Research Forum is a series designed to present cutting-edge research on the Central Asia region spanning the whole of the social sciences.

Founding editor: Shirin Akiner, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

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Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan

Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia: The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan

1st Edition

By Ajam Kalonov
June 30, 2023

Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia. It analyses the only Islamic political party that was ever allowed to participate in elections in Central Asia and contributes to the debate on the radicalization or moderation of Islamic ...

Sustainable Energy in Central Asia Transition Towards Renewable Energy Sources in Uzbekistan

Sustainable Energy in Central Asia: Transition Towards Renewable Energy Sources in Uzbekistan

1st Edition

By Nigora Djalilova
September 26, 2022

This book argues that sustainable energy development represents a new frontier for many transitional economies, including those countries that are well endowed with traditional energy resources, as exemplified by the case of Uzbekistan in Central Asia. The book highlights the challenges and issues...

Sustainable Development in Central Asia

Sustainable Development in Central Asia

1st Edition

By Shirin Akiner, Jon Hay, Sander Tideman
September 14, 1998

This book is the result of a pioneering conference held in Ulaan Baatar in September 1994. The first Conference on the Sustainable Development of Central Asia brought together government officials, development professionals, academics, activists and religious representatives from Central, South and...

Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev era

Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev era

1st Edition

By Luca Anceschi
April 07, 2020

This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era. This book delves into the specific Eurasia-centric narratives through which the regime, headed by Nursultan Nazarbaev, imagined the ...

Migration and Identity in Central Asia The Uzbek Experience

Migration and Identity in Central Asia: The Uzbek Experience

1st Edition

By Rano Turaeva
April 16, 2018

This book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in the capital city of Uzbekistan. The ethnographic details of the book represent post-Soviet urban realities on the ground where various forms of belonging clash and kinship ties are reinforced within social safety networks. ...

Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia Uzbekistan's Soviet Past

Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Uzbekistan's Soviet Past

1st Edition

By Timur Dadabaev
January 22, 2018

Central Asian states have experienced a number of historical changes that have challenged their traditional societies and lifestyles. The most significant changes occurred as a result of the revolution in 1917, the incorporation of the region into the Soviet Union, and gaining independence after ...

Leadership and Authority in Central Asia The Ismaili Community in Tajikistan

Leadership and Authority in Central Asia: The Ismaili Community in Tajikistan

1st Edition

By Otambek Mastibekov
October 26, 2017

This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan. The history of this region has commonly been explored through the lens of the major superpowers who competed over its territory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including ...

Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia The Soviet Legacy

Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy

1st Edition

Edited By Sevket Akyildiz, Richard Carlson
October 12, 2017

Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. ...

Eurasia and India Regional Perspectives

Eurasia and India: Regional Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By K. Warikoo
September 22, 2017

Eurasia has assumed importance in the post-Soviet period and the peoples of Siberia have distinctive historico-cultural similarities with the Indian Himalayas due to common traditions and Buddhist culture. The Eurasianism of Russia brings it closer to India in historico-cultural, political and ...

Sustainable Energy in Kazakhstan Moving to cleaner energy in a resource-rich country

Sustainable Energy in Kazakhstan: Moving to cleaner energy in a resource-rich country

1st Edition

Edited By Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Richard Pomfret
July 11, 2017

Kazakhstan is rich in natural resources including coal, oil, natural gas and uranium and has significant renewable potential from wind, solar, hydro and biomass. In spite of this, the country is currently dependent upon fossil fuels with coal-fired plants accounting for 75% of total power ...

Conflict and Peace in Eurasia

Conflict and Peace in Eurasia

1st Edition

Edited By Debidatta Mahapatra
May 31, 2017

Focusing on a range of Eurasian conflicts, including Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, this book offers contemporary perspectives on the ongoing conflicts in the Eurasia, with an emphasis on the attempts towards peace. The book brings into focus how various factors such as ethnicity, ...

National Identities in Soviet Historiography The Rise of Nations under Stalin

National Identities in Soviet Historiography: The Rise of Nations under Stalin

1st Edition

By Harun Yilmaz
May 25, 2017

Under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership of the USSR, Soviet national identities with historical narratives were constructed. These constructions envisaged how nationalities should see their imaginary common past, and millions of people defined themselves according to them. This book explains how and...

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