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Book Launch: March 5 – Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that…
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The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this…
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Власть и пространство в социальных мобилизациях: предварительные мысли о протестах, приведших к смене власти в Кыргызстане осенью 2020 г.
Disabling Public Discontent: The 2021 Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan
To What Extent Are Minority Religious Rights Protected in the Kyrgyz Republic?
Informing the Public about the Dangers of a Pandemic. Early COVID-19 Coverage by News Organizations in Kazakhstan
Migration and COVID-19: Challenges and Policy Responses in Kyrgyzstan
COVID-19 Outbreak in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Has the Time Come for Social Innovations?
The Authoritarian Treatment of COVID-19: The Case of Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan: The Socioeconomic Consequences of the Covid-19 Crisis
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and OSCE: Organizational Efforts vs COVID-19 in Central Asia
Towards Sustainable Urban Water Supply in Kyrgyzstan
Post-COVID-19 Central Asia and the Sino-American Geopolitical Competition
Identity-Based Discrimination in Kazakhstan: Migrant Workers in Pandemic Times
Post-COVID-19: Can Central Asia be Central to Eurasian Integration?
Women Face-to-Face with Domestic Abuse during COVID-19 Lockdown: The Case of Kyrgyzstan
Post-COVID-19 Regime Stability in Uzbekistan
Responses to Covid-19 and the Strengthening of Authoritarian Governance in Central Asia
LATEST AVAILABLE ISSUE: VOLUME 7 | ISSUE 1 | 2020
ARTICLES
The Bureaucratization of Islam in Azerbaijan: State as the Principal Regulator and Interpreter of Religion by Kamal Gasimov
Understanding Factors behind Regional Inequality in Education in Kazakhstan by Aigerim Kopeyeva
Secondary Schools and Inequality: Navigating the Fragmented Landscape of Educational Choices in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan by Aigoul Abdoubaetova
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