The authors seek to address three issues in this study: First, how legal systems that were established long ago are...

This book takes up the case of Russia—an archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants in...

"The book examines the Soviet experience in constructing socialist nations while preserving a unitary political and state regime. The communist...

This monograph is the first study dealing with life-cycle events, such as birth, children’s upbringing, marriage and funeral rites of...

Legal Pluralism in Central Asia examines customary legal practices in Kyrgyzstan and contextualizes them within wider societal trends in the...

This book examines modern logistics and assesses the extent to which it feeds into region-building. The approach attempts to reach...

This book analyses the legal and political systems of three different regions of the Asian/Eurasian continent. More precisely it compares...

"The European Union has been active in Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union but its impact has...

The book presents a comprehensive study of Kyrgyz foreign policy from the early 1990s to 2011. It addresses the question...

The Politics of Police Reform explores the conditions in which police forces are able to succeed in their transformation and...

The book presents a comprehensive analytical framework for the evaluation of democracy promotion, including factors which may facilitate or impede...

A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story...

This book presents over 6500 authentic examples of proverbs and sayings that were recorded in their spoken form by the...

Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in...

The book details the evolution of Japan's foreign policy and its initiatives with respect to Central Asia. It provides insights...

This book comprises the historical overview of migration processes in Kyrgyzstan, contemporary migration trends in international migration and various social,...

This atlas graphically illuminates the region's history, tracing back to the 8th-7th century B.C. From the spread of Islam to...

Turdaliyeva's book illuminates Valikhanov's little-known essays on Kyrgyz history and culture.

This book examines Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the NATO coalition’s ISAF troops in 2014 and frames it as a...

Gorshenina presents the history of the initial stage in the formation of the concepts of Middle/Central Asia by claiming that...

This book is a study of rural poverty in the remote rural areas of Kyrgyzstan. It analyses the linkage of...

This book is the result of three years of research on Holy sites, which was carried out by the Aigine...

This book examines the development of business interest representation in the postcommunist countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The central...

Focusing on migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, this study shows that the transfers of resources between receiving and sending...

The book examines the development of Soviet politics in political-administrative and sociocultural terms with regard to national minorities. The creation...

Based on 20 years of archaeological research in the Naryn region, historian and archaeologist Kubat Tabaldiev presents evidence of the...

The book emphasizes the importance of regional integration in Kyrgyzstan's political modernization. The author devotes five lengthy chapters to a...

A study of ways in which modernization theory could be applied to political and economic transformation in Kyrgzystan and in...

This book aims to analyze the role of regional relational assets in economic development of Kyrgyzstan as expressed in the...

Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of...