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

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

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

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...

Pamiris, or Badakhshanis in popular discourse, form a small group of Iranic peoples who inhabit the mountainous region of the...

The book examines Tajikistan through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important...

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

Leadership and Authority in Central Asia identifies traditional forms of religious authority within the network of religious functionaries at a...

The book presents the author’s analysis of medieval Islamic architectural monuments described in the Safarname (Book of Travels) of Nasir...

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

Despite Cultures examines the realities of Soviet state-building in Tajikistan throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research,...

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

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...

Presenting a study of regime transition, political transformation, and the challenges that faced the post-Communist republics of Central Asia after...

This book is a historical study of the Tajiks in Central Asia from the ancient times to the post-Soviet era.

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...

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

Irregular Migration provides a detailed account of post-Soviet illegal migration to the United States, focusing in particular on Central Asian...

The book focuses on the foreign policy of the Republic of Tajikistan during the period of independence. The foreign policy...

The book analyzes the underlying reasons for and the composition of emigration flows from Central Asia and also attempts to...

The military has often played a key role in the political developments, foreign policies, and everyday lives of citizens in...

Academic Rahim Masov's History of a National Catastrophe deals with the delicate issue of the national-administrative divisions of Central Asia....

These particularly detailed memoirs cover Khodizoda's childhood, education, and career. Khodizoda also provides detail on his experiences writing a novel...

Globalization affects almost all spheres of social life, including politics, culture, and the very conditions of human existence. This book...

The book focuses on one of the critical and tragic periods in Tajik history at the beginning of the 20th...