Timur Dadabaev

Published: Oct 07, 2015 by Religion, State and Society (Routledge, Taylor and Francis), Volume 42, Issue 4 December, pp. 328-353
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

The main argument of this article is that religious policies implemented during theSoviet era and adaptations of the public to them produced a new understanding of religiosity and religious life among the population in Uzbekistan.

Published: Oct 12, 2014 by Pacific Review, 27:1, 123-145 (Routledge, Taylor and Francis).
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

This paper demonstrates that in some respects, the interests of China and Japan in CA are similar, as exemplifiedby their focus on mineral resources and political stability. However, these countriesdiffer in their approaches and strategies there: China is inclined to follow pragmaticapproaches, whereas Japan’s policy is a mixture of idealistic and pragmaticperspectives.

Published: Oct 07, 2014 by Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 23, No. 85, pp.102-118
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

This paper reviews the perceptions of the CA states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) towards the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and conceptualises theCA states’ motivations and concerns in engaging in cooperation within the SCO vis-a`-vis China.

Published: Oct 10, 2013 by Journal of Eurasian Studies,Volume 4, Issue 2, July 2013, 181–196 (Elsevier)
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

The primary message of this paper is that the community has historically represented one of only a few effective traditional struc-tures that can unite representatives of various ethnic and religious groups through thecreation of a common identity based on shared residence. However, throughout history of these communities, political authorities have often attempted to manipulate these in-stitutions to enhance the state's legitimacy.

Published: Oct 06, 2013 by Asian Survey 53:3, May/June 2013, pp. 506–532 . (University of California Press)
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

In contrast to the claims that Japanese foreign policy increasingly shifts towardrealist and pragmatic modes of engagement, this paper argues that Japanese foreignpolicy is largely trapped between idealist and pragmatic criteria in its Central Asian(CA) policy. Japan’s policy in CA is thus a hybrid of policies that are not properlyunderstood in CA, nor can they be explained to the public at home.

Published: Oct 05, 2013 by Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity (ASN/Taylor and Francis), Volume 41, Issue 6, pp.1026-104
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

This paper isa contributionto the debate about howpeople in Central Asia recall Sovietethnic policies and their vision of how these policies have shaped the identities of theirpeers and contemporaries. In order to do so, this paper utilizes the outcomes of in-depthinterviews about everyday Soviet life in Uzbekistan conducted with 75 senior citizensbetween 2006and2009.

Published: Oct 07, 2012 by Strategic Analysis, Vol. 36, No. 4, July–August 2012, 554–568.
Authors: TImur Dadabaev

This article develops the message that although for most of CA states, border delimitation is not an objective but a declared way of achieving their security, the process of delimitation detailed below casts doubts on whether border delimitation, even if successful, would actuallymean increased security for the region under the prevailing conditions of unilateralismand mutual distrust.

Published: Oct 04, 2010 by Inner Asia, N.12 , pp. 25–48
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

This article analyzes narrations of Soviet past by elderly citizens of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

Published: Dec 17, 2007 by Central Asian Survey, 26(3), pp.407 - 428 2007
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

This article attempts to measure and quantify the dramatic ideological,economic and value system changes in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, using data from the Asia Barometer survey. It offers a snapshot of the situation in Uzbekistan bydescribing the basic changes in people’s everyday lives, the way they think and act, what they aspire to and how they relate with each other.

Published: May 02, 2007 by Asian Affairs: An American Review, Vol. 34, No.3.pp. 131 - 150
Authors: Timur Dadabaev

Because of its closed system of governance, Turkmenistan remainsone of the most closed societies in the world. This article attempts to analyze and, where appropriate, interpret theviews of the population on the political aspects of their everyday lives using thedata of the social polling conducted in Turkmenistan in autumn of 2005 for theAsiaBarometer project.