Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction
Kirill Nourzhanov and Sebastien Peyrouse. (eds). Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction. Rowman and Littlefield,…
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Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia
Despite attracting millions of labor migrants since the early 2000s, Russia continues to be stubbornly referred to as an emerging…
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Living in Two Worlds: Rethinking Transnationalism and Translocality
Olga Brednikova and Sergei Abashin, (eds)‚ Жить в двух мирах: Переосмысляя транснационализм и транслокальность (Living in Two Worlds: Rethinking Transnationalism…
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Uzbekistan’s International Relations
Oybek Madiyev, Uzbekistan’s International Relations, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). Since the death of Islam Karimov in 2016, Uzbekistan has opened up…
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China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Daniel S. Markey, China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Daniel Markey…
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The War on the Uyghurs
Sean Roberts, The War on the Uyghurs, (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020). Sean Roberts’ The War on the Uyghurs…
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Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
Edward Schatz, Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia, (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). America’s…
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The Emperor’s New Road
Jonathan Hillman, The Emperor’s New Road, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. The short story by Hans Christian Andersen…
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China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire
Kelly Hammond, China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina…
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Ethnographies of Islam in China
Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha, and Maria Jaschok (eds). Ethnographies of Islam in China. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2020)…
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