Central Asian Studies Books

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1. The Political Economy of Central Asia

   By Gul Berna Ozcan

   Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian republics are still coming to terms with their post-communist economies, their role in the region and the wider world, and their needs for identity, governance and growth. The Political Economy of Central Asia is an original study addressing...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-42192-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Violence and Resistance in Uzbekistan

   By Matteo Fumagalli

   For large part of the post-independence period, Uzbekistan’s elites have legitimised their rule in the name of a struggle against religiously motivated and foreign-funded extremism. Without President Karimov’s rule, the theory that country would have fallen prey to Islamic militancy and possibly...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-48093-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Schooling of Tibetans in China: Making Tibetan Chinese

   By Gerald Postiglione

   The debates over Tibetan cultural autonomy continue without a great deal of attention given to the education system. Never before have so many Tibetans attended school. Before long, most will be at school for six to nine years, and the number going to college and university will increase. What is...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-55239-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy

   Edited by Adrian Dellecker, Thomas Gomart

   This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offering an interpretation of Russia’s coherence on the international stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its behaviour. The authors analyse...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-54733-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs

   By Stanley D. Brunn, Stanley W. Toops

   This Atlas provides concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Central Asia and Eurasia. Offering relevant information on the region’s place in the contemporary political and economic worlds, it includes background topics, the position of the region in...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49752-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics

   By Rico Isaacs

   This book examines a critical issue affecting democratization and regime consolidation processes in former Soviet Central Asia: the relationship between informal forms of patrimonial political relations and behaviour and formal institutional development. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59023-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Routledge Handbook of Central Asian Politics

   Edited by Reuel R. Hanks

   Since achieving independence in 1991, the five states of Central Asia have increasingly gained geopolitical, economic and strategic significance. There are several reasons for the region’s rise in importance. Geographic location, at the intersection of Russia, South Asia, China and the...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-77676-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Religion and Security in South and Central Asia

   Edited by K. Warikoo

   Religion and security play an important role in traditional societies. In South and Central Asia, traditional and moderate Islamic beliefs and practices with strong indigenous and Sufi content are diametrically opposed to radical Wahabi and Taliban brands of Islam intolerant of other cultures and...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-57590-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. The European Union and Central Asia

   Edited by Alexander Warkotsch

   In June 2007, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted The EU in Central Asia: Strategy for a New Partnership, highlighting the growing importance of Central Asia to the EU. This book examines the EU's policy towards the five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-56236-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Social and Economic Change in the Pamirs (Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan): Translated from German by Nicola Pacult and Sonia Guss with support of Tim Sharp

    By Frank Bliss

    Since Olufsen and Schulz published their monographs on the Pamirs in 1904 and 1914, respectively, this is the first book to deal with the history, anthropology and recent social and economic development of the Pamiri people in Gorno-Badakhshan, Eastern Tajikistan. After the collapse of the Soviet...

    September 2010 | 978-0-415-59995-5 | Paperback (Routledge)