Report. — Chatham House, 2019. — 126 p. Kazakhstan is at a turning point in its history. At face value, at least, Central Asia’s wealthiest state has embarked on a bold experiment following the March 2019 decision by its founding father and long-standing ruler, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to resign from the presidency and initiate a managed political succession. A generational...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 544 p. After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. They increasingly differ from each other, and are making their way in global politics. No longer connected only to Russia, they are now connected in important ways to Afghanistan, South Asia, China,...
Praeger, 2010. — 225 p. Home to vast energy reserves … central front in the fight against global terrorism … potential Western allies in Russia's backyard. Together, the independent nations of Central Asia — former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, plus Afghanistan — comprise one of the most important, least understood regions of the...
Los-Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. — 258 p. Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world featured a sustained assault on...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2017. — xvi, 392 p. Visions of Justice offers an exploration of legal consciousness among the Muslim communities of Central Asia from the end of the eighteenth century through the fall of the Russian Empire. Paolo Sartori surveys how colonialism affected the way in which Muslims formulated their convictions about entitlements and became exposed to...
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