1st Edition

Politics of Modern Central Asia

Edited By Bhavna Dave
    1776 Pages
    by Routledge

    The study of contemporary Central Asia has acquired significant scholarly attention since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Central Asian Studies (which focuses on the five post-Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) is a burgeoning addition to the established field of Area Studies, as well as to the broader discipline of Development Studies.

    Offering comprehensive coverage of the political, economic, sociocultural, as well as security, concerns and foreign relations of Central Asia within a well-defined historical and conceptual framework, this new Routledge title is a timely and much-needed contribution to the existing materials on the region. The focus encompasses the region as a whole, as well as each individual country, comprising the Soviet legacy, cultural and social institutions, modern economic and political transition, and geopolitics and security.

    The collection is fully indexed, and has a comprehensive introduction by the editor which outlines the analytical framework and the historical context within which the selected texts are placed, and highlighting how scholarship in this field has evolved, as well as pointing to future trajectories. Politics of Modern Central Asia is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers—as well as policy-makers—in the field of post-Soviet and Central Asian Studies as a vital resource.

    Volume I: Encounters with Modernity: Russian and Soviet Rule

    Part 1: From Russian Empire to Soviet Socialism

    1. Andreas Kappeler, ‘Czarist Policy Toward the Muslims of the Russian Empire’, in Edward Allworth (ed.), Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia (Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 141–56.

    2. Daniel R. Brower, ‘Islam and Ethnicity: Russian Colonial Policy in Turkestan’, in Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini (eds.), Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700–1917 (Indiana University Press, 1997), pp. 117–33.

    3. Adeeb Khalid, ‘The Making of a Colonial Society’, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 45–79.

    Part 2: Forging Nations, Building Socialism

    4. Adeeb Khalid, ‘Backwardness and the Quest for Civilization: Early Soviet Central Asia in Comparative Perspective’, Slavic Review, 2006, 65, 231–51.

    5. Francine Hirsch, ‘Toward an Empire of Nations: Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities’, The Russian Review, 2000, 59, 1, 201–26.

    6. Steven Sabol, ‘The Creation of Soviet Central Asia: The 1924 National Delimitation’, Central Asian Survey, 1995, 14, 2, 225–42.

    7. Adrienne Edgar, ‘Genealogy, Class, and "Tribal Policy" in Soviet Turkmenistan’, Slavic Review, 2001, 60, 2, 266–88.

    Part 3: Battle against Islam: Accommodation and Resistance

    8. Shoshana Keller, ‘Islam in Soviet Central Asia, 1917–1930: Soviet Policy and Struggle for Control’, Central Asian Survey, 1992, 11, 1, 25–50.

    9. Adeeb Khalid, ‘The Soviet Assault on Islam’, Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (University of California Press, 2007), pp. 50–83.

    10. Mark Saroyan, ‘Rethinking Islam in the Soviet Union’, in Mark Saroyan and Edward W. Walker, Minorities, Mullahs, and Modernity: Reshaping Community in the Former Soviet Union (International and Area Studies Digital Collection Research Series, 1997), pp 8–42.

    Part 4: Women: Transformation without Emancipation

    11. Douglas Northrop, ‘Subaltern Dialogues: Subversion and Resistance in Soviet Uzbek Family Law’, Slavic Review, 2001, 60, 1, 115–39.

    12. Marianne Kamp, ‘Pilgrimage and Performance: Uzbek Women and the Imagining of Uzbekistan in the 1920s’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2002, 34, 2, 263–78.

    13. Adrienne Edgar, ‘Emancipation of the Unveiled: Turkmen Women under Soviet Rule’, Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan (Princeton University Press, 2004), pp. 221–60.

    Part 5: Elites and Entitlements

    14. Theodor Shanin, ‘Ethnicity in the Soviet Union: Analytical Perspectives and Political Strategies’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1989, 31, 3, 409–24.

    15. Bhavna Dave, ‘Ethnic Entitlements and Compliance in Kazakhstan’, Ethnicity, Language and Power (Routledge, 2007), pp. 71–95.

    16. James Critchlow, ‘"Corruption", Nationalism, and the Native Elites in Soviet Central Asia’, The Journal of Communist Studies, 1988, 2, 142–61.

    Part 6: Reflections on Soviet Modernity

    17. Deniz Kandiyoti, ‘Modernization without the Market? The Case of the "Soviet East"’, Economy and Society, 1996, 25, 529–42.

    18. Nazif Shahrani, ‘Central Asia and the Challenge of the Soviet Legacy’, Central Asian Survey, 1993, 12, 2, 123–36.

    Volume II: State–Society Relations: Stability and Transformation

    Part 1: Decolonization: Nations and State Building

    19. Martha Brill Olcott, ‘Central Asia’s Catapult to Independence’, Foreign Affairs, 1992, 3, 108–30.

    20. Juan R. I. Cole and Deniz Kandiyoti, ‘Nationalism and the Colonial Legacy in the Middle East and Central Asia: Introduction’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2002, 34, 2, 189–203.

    21. Deniz Kandiyoti, ‘Post-Colonialism Compared: Potentials and Limitations in the Middle East and Central Asia’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2002, 34, 2, 279–97.

    Part 2: State-building, Conflicts, and Borders

    22. Sally Cummings, ‘Conceptualising State Capacity: Comparing Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan’, Political Studies, 2004, 52, 685–708.

    23. B. R. Rubin, ‘Russian Hegemony and State Breakdown in the Periphery: Causes and Consequences of the Civil War in Tajikistan’, in Barnett R. Rubin and J. Snyder (eds.), Post-Soviet Political Order: Conflict and State Building (Routledge, 1998), pp. 128–61.

    24. Madeleine Reeves, ‘Locating Danger: Konfliktologiia and the Search for Fixity in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands’, Central Asian Survey, 2005, 24, 1, 67–81.

    Part 3: Ethnic and Cultural Revival

    25. Bhavna Dave, ‘National Revival in Kazakhstan: Language Shift and Identity Change’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 1996, 12, 1, 51–72.

    26. Edward Schatz, ‘The Politics of Multiple Identities: Lineage and Ethnicity in Kazakhstan’, Europe-Asia Studies, 2000, 52, 3, 489–506.

    27. Shoshana Keller, ‘Story, Time, and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum’, Slavic Review, 2007, 66, 2, 257–77.

    Part 4: Nations, Minorities, Diasporas

    28. Graham Smith et al., ‘The Central Asia States as Nationalising Regimes’, Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 139–64.

    29. Matteo Fumagalli, ‘Framing Ethnic Minority Mobilization in Central Asia: The Cases of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan’, Europe-Asia Studies, 2007, 59, 4, 565–88.

    30. Bhavna Dave, ‘Disempowered Minorities’, Kazakhstan: Ethnicity, Language and Power (Routledge, 2007), pp. 119–39.

    Part 5: Islam

    31. Mark Saroyan, ‘The Reinterpretation and Adaptation of Soviet Islam’, in Mark Saroyan and Edward W. Walker, Minorities, Mullahs, and Modernity: Reshaping Community in the Former Soviet Union (International and Area Studies Digital Collection Research Series, 1997), pp. 57–87.

    32. Nazif Shahrani, ‘Islam and the Political Culture of "Scientific Atheism" in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Future Predicaments’, in Michael Bourdeaux (ed.), The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (M. E. Sharpe, 1997), pp. 273–92.

    33. Sergei Abashin, ‘The Logic of Islamic Practice: A Religious Conflict in Central Asia’, Central Asian Survey, 2006, 25, 3, 267–86.

    34. Johan Rasanayagam, ‘I’m Not a Wahhabi: State Power and Muslim Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan’, in Chris Hann (ed.), The Postsocialist Religious Question: Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe (Lit Verlag, 2006), pp. 99–124.

    Volume III: POST-SOVIET INSTITUTIONS: CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATION

    Part 1: Economic Reforms, Markets, and Transition

    35. Eugene Huskey, ‘Kyrgyzstan: The Fate of Political Liberalization’, in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott (eds.), Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 242–76.

    36. Pauline Jones Luong and Erika Weinthal, ‘Prelude to the Resource Curse: Explaining Energy Development Strategies in the Soviet Successor States and Beyond’, Comparative Political Studies, 2001, 34, 4, 367–99.

    37. Deniz Kandiyoti, ‘Post-Soviet Institutional Design and the Paradoxes of the "Uzbek Path"’, Central Asian Survey, 2007, 26, 1, 31–48.

    38. Colette Harris, ‘Coping with Daily Life in Post-Soviet Tajikistan: The Gharmi Villages of Khatlon Province’, Central Asian Survey, 1998, 17, 4, 655–72.

    Part 2: Formal Institutions and Informal Politics

    39. Pauline Jones Luong, ‘After the Break-up: Institutional Design in Transitional States’, Comparative Political Studies, 2000, 563–92.

    40. Kathleen Collins, ‘The Logic of Clan Politics: Evidence from the Central Asian Trajectories’, World Politics, 2004, 56, 2, 224–61.

    41. Edward Schatz, ‘Reconceptualizing Clans: Kinship Networks and Statehood in Kazakhstan’, Nationalities Papers, 2005, 33, 2, 231–54.

    42. Scott Radnitz, ‘Networks, Localism and Mobilization in Aksy, Kyrgyzstan’, Central Asian Survey, 2005, 24, 4, 405–24.

    43. Alisher Ilkhamov, ‘Neopatrimonialism, Interest Groups and Patronage Networks: The Impasses of the Governance System in Uzbekistan’, Central Asian Survey, 2007, 26, 1, 65–84.

    44. M. Denison, ‘Discipline and Persuade: The Leader Cult in Turkmenistan’, OstEuropa, 2007, 209–23.

    Part 3: Civil Society, Democratic Promotion, and International Actors

    45. Edward Schatz, ‘Access by Accident: Legitimacy Claims and Democracy Promotion in Central Asia’, International Political Science Review, 2006, 27, 3, 263–84.

    46. Ruth Mandel, ‘Seeding Civil Society’, in Chris Hann (ed.), Postsocialism: Ideals, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia (Routledge, 2000), 279–96.

    47. Sabine Freizer, ‘Neo-Liberal and Communal Civil Society in Tajikistan’, Central Asian Survey, 2005, 24, 3, 225–43.

    48. Olivier Roy, ‘The Predicament of "Civil Society" in Central Asia and the "Greater Middle East"’, International Affairs, 2005, 81, 5, 1001–12.

    Part 4: Stability and ‘Colour Revolution’

    49. Scott Radnitz, ‘What Really Happened in Kyrgyzstan?’, Journal of Democracy, 2006, 17, 2, 132–46.

    50. David Lewis, ‘The Dynamics of Regime Change: Domestic and International Factors in the "Tulip Revolution"’, Central Asian Survey, 2008, 27, 3–4, 265–77.

    51. Shairbek Juraev, ‘Kyrgyz Democracy? The Tulip Revolution and Beyond’, Central Asian Survey, 2008, 27, 3–4, 253–64.

    Part 5: Gender in Post-Soviet Context

    52. Marianne Kamp, ‘Gender Ideals and Income Realities: Discourses about Labor and Gender in Uzbekistan’, Nationalities Papers, 2005, 33, 3, 403–22.

    53. Deniz Kandiyoti, ‘The Politics of Gender and the Soviet Paradox: Neither Colonized, nor Modern?’, Central Asian Survey, 2007, 26, 4, 601–23.

    54. C. A. Werner, ‘Women, Marriage, and the Nation-State: The Rise of Nonconsensual Bride Kidnapping in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan’, in Pauline Jones Luong (ed.), The Transformation of Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. 58–89.

    Volume IV: The Changing Geopolitical Context

    Part 1: (Re)Locating Central Asia

    55. Milan Hauner, ‘Central Asian Geopolitics in the Last Hundred Years: A Critical Survey from Gorchakov to Gorbachev’, Central Asian Survey, 1989, 8, 1, 1–20.

    56. Rajan Menon, ‘The New Great Game in Central Asia’, Survival, 2003, 45, 2, 187–204.

    57. Martha Brill Olcott, ‘Changing Geopolitics: Less Has Changed than One Might Think’, Central Asia’s Second Chance? (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005), pp. 173–205.

    Part 2: Regional Actors and Structures

    58. Roy Allison, ‘Strategic Reassertion in Russia’s Central Asia Policy’, International Affairs, 2004, 80, 2, 277–93.

    59. Roy Allison, ‘Virtual Regionalism, Regional Structures and Regime Security in Central Asia’, Central Asian Survey, 2008, 27, 2, 185–202.

    60. Matteo Fumagalli, ‘Alignments and Realignments in Central Asia: The Rationale and Implications of Uzbekistan’s Rapprochement with Russia’, International Political Science Review, 2007, 28, 3, 253–71.

    61. David Kerr with Laura C. Swinton, ‘China, Xinjiang and the Transnational Security of Central Asia’, Critical Asian Studies, 2008, 40, 1, 113–42.

    Part 3: Encounters Between Western Norms and Regional Interests

    62. Alexander Cooley, ‘US Bases and Democratization in Central Asia’, Orbis, 2008, 52, 1, 65–90.

    63. Sally N. Cummings, ‘Eurasian Bridge or Murky Waters Between East and West? Ideas, Identity and Output in Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 2003, 29, 3, 139–55.

    64. Alexander Cooley, ‘Principles in the Pipeline: Managing Transatlantic Values and Interests in Central Asia’, International Affairs, 2008, 84, 6, 1173–88.

    Part 4: The Caspian Region: Energy Security and Pipelines

    65. Martha Brill Olcott, ‘The Caspian’s False Promise’, Foreign Policy, 1998, 111, 94–113.

    66. Gawdat Bahgat, ‘Central Asia and Energy Security’, Asian Affairs, 2006, 37, 1, 1–16.

    67. Rafael Kandiyoti, ‘What Price Access to the Open Seas? The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas Transmission from the Trans-Caspian Republics’, Central Asian Survey, 2008, 27, 1, 75–93.

    68. Andrei Kazantsev, ‘Russian Policy in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea Region’, Europe-Asia Studies, 2008, 60, 6, 1073–88.

    69. Terry Lynn Karl, ‘Crude Calculations: OPEC Lessons for the Caspian Region’, in Robert Ebel and Rajan Menon (eds.), Energy and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caucuses (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001), pp. 29–54.

    'To sum up, the publication of the four volumes is a boon to scholars and to the general public interested in the recent politics of Central Asia. Bhavna Dave ought to be congratulated for providing us with such an enlightening anthology.' - Jacob M. Landau, Middle Eastern Studies Journal