Asian Studies: Central Asian Studies

Edited by Mike M. Mochizuki, Deepa M. Ollapally

Many states appear to have strong sentiment on energy security and energy transit vulnerability. Some analysts see the rapidly increasing demand for energy and competition for energy resources leading to nationalistic energy policies. Others argue that global trends with efficient energy markets…

Hardback – 2016-12-16 
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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Edited by Dr Carol Kerven, Carol Kerven

This collection traces how pastoralists have coped with the challenges of change in a part of the world with a long-tradition of livestock keeping. Their precarious position - balanced between a market system where only the fittest may survive, and their attempt to remain a human resource for the…

Paperback – 2016-11-30 
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Central Asia Research Forum

Edited by Madeleine Reeves

Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform social life by transforming place. Drawing together established scholars and a new generation of historians, geographers and anthropologists, this volume brings empirical specificity and theoretical depth to debates about the…

Paperback – 2016-10-11
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ThirdWorlds

Edited by Jonathan Goodhand, Mark Sedra

This book covers the period spanning the international invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to the foreign military withdrawal in 2014. It explores and dissects the conflictual encounter between international troops, statebuilders and donors on the one hand, and Afghan elites and the wider population on…

Paperback – 2016-10-11
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ThirdWorlds

Edited by John Heathershaw, Edmund Herzig

Tajikistan is one of the lesser-known and least-researched former Soviet Central Asian republics. The birth of the new state in 1991 was followed closely by a civil war which killed more than 50,000 people and displaced many tens of thousands more. While a peace agreement was signed in 1997,…

Paperback – 2016-10-11
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ThirdWorlds

Edited by Stefan B. Kirmse

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social anthropology. While most discussions of youth…

Paperback – 2016-10-11
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ThirdWorlds

By John H. Stubbs, Robert G. Thomson

At a time when organized heritage protection in Asia is developing at a rapid pace, Architectural Conservation in Asia provides the first comprehensive overview of architectural conservation practice from Afghanistan to the Philippines. The country-by-country analysis adopted by the book draws out…

Hardback – 2016-10-06
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By Maxat Kassen

When it comes to analyzing the phenomenon of digital government, the overwhelming focus is on the most developed nations in the world, and Western countries in particular. However, Kazakhstan, a post-totalitarian country, has also proved to be successful in the development of e-government. This…

Hardback – 2016-08-29
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Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies

By Suzanne Levi-Sanchez

Based on extensive, long-term fieldwork in the borderlands of Afghan and Tajik Badakhshan, this book explores the importance of local leaders and local identity groups for the stability of a state’s borders, and ultimately for the stability of the state itself. It shows how the implantation of…

Hardback – 2016-07-21
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Central Asian Studies

By Tamila Mgaloblishvili

The is the first volume of Iberica-Caucasica, a new annual publication based in Tbilisi (Georgia) and devoted exclusively to the art, history and culture of the Caucasus.…

Paperback – 2016-07-13
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Caucasus World

By Shirin Akiner, Mohammad-Reza Djalili, Frederic Grare

Since its independence in 1991 Tajikistan has suffered a painful series of political crises followed by a civil war, still continuing, whose repercussions extend far beyond its borders. This work examines the causes of the turmoil, and analyses, through the case of Tajikistan, social and political…

Paperback – 2016-07-08
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Central Asia Research Forum

Edited by Barbara Meisterernst

The areas covering the Silk Roads, the ancient and modern roads from China to the West, including the region of modern Xinjiang, have an enduring and most diverse history. The impact that the political, cultural, and economic exchange on the Silk Roads had on the world cannot be overestimated; this…

Hardback – 2016-07-07
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Critical Concepts in Asian Studies