The book covers the country's first decade of independence including the civil war (1992-1997) and peacebuilding.

The author carefully assesses the key issues in Kyrgyzstan's attempt to develop democratic and market-oriented institutions, and to keep militant...

This study provides a concise overview of the historical development of Turkmenistan. For centuries, the Turkmen tribes were known as...

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

The book focuses on the major steps in developing and building statehood. It familiarizes the reader with Kazakhstan's history, the...

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

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

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

The Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan covers the history of Kazakhstan through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and a bibliography....

This thesis, through a case study of the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan, investigates the relationship between welfare and political stability,...

"The History of Medieval Uyghur" uses newly unearthed Uyghur literature and other first-hand historical materials to ascertain the degree of...

This study analyzes the heterogeneous political and institutional aspects in the development of modern democracy such as e-government platform, from...

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

This book analyzes e-government development in Kazakhstan from a variety of dimensions, including, but not limited to, political, social, economic...

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

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

The book tells about the world's outstanding state leaders-reformers, whose activities for the benefit of their homeland are recognized not...

The book describes the recent history of Kazakhstan (1991–2010). The author, a well-known public figure of Kazakhstan, publicist and professional...

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...

The book is a collection of the most acute articles by Gennady Benditsky, published at different times. The materials in...

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

This study challenges the conventional wisdom that informal institutions—networks, clientelism, and connections— disappear in modern societies due to the processes...

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

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...

This book combines academic wisdom and practitioners' insights to critically examine the challenges faced by civil service systems in the...

This book considers the continuity of problems that will be inherited by those who will rule the country in the...

Former BBC journalist Bagila Bukharbayeva seeks to better understand the Uzbek government’s use of Islam to achieve its consolidation of...

Madiyev unpacks the major themes of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy in the post-Soviet era. The book also makes an important contribution...