Part I. Country Profiles
1. Armenia
Justin Tomczyk
2. Azerbaijan
Nihad Mammadli
3. Georgia
Tinatin Khidasheli
4. Kazakhstan
Mukhtar Amanbaiuly
5. Kyrgyzstan
Alexis Scott
6. Tajikistan
Mukhiddinova Mavzuna
7. Uzbekistan
Bekzod Zakirov
8. Turkmenistan
Oguljamal Yazliyeva
Part II. Emerging Themes
9. The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Amit Upadhyay and Abhinav Mehrotra
10. The Dynamics of Iran’s Religious Influence in Azerbaijan in the Post-Second Karabakh War
Fuad Shahbazov
11. The Politics of Policing in Georgia: A Decade of Unchanged Paradigms
Tamar Gvasalia
12. Kazakhstan’s Economy: Stuck In Transition
Olzhas Zhorayev
13. Mobilising for Change: Grassroots Efforts in Almaty and the Struggle to Impact Local Political Authorities
Shugyla Kilybayeva and Azamat Nurshanov
14. From Hashtags to Handcuffs: Social Media, Protest, and Repression in Kyrgyzstan
Amrashaa Singh and Niranjan Jose
15. The Political Ecology of Nature Conservation in Kyrgyzstan
Fatima Mannapbekova
16. New Uzbekistan—a More Religious Uzbekistan? Islamist and Secularist Discourse in post-Karimov Uzbekistan
Dilrabo Tosheva
17. Human Mobility in Central Asia: Defining and Redefining Identity
Raushan Zhandayeva
Biography
Erica Marat is a Professor at the College of International Security Affairs of the National Defense University, USA. Her previous publications include the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (co-edited with Rico Isaacs, 2021).
