Co-Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars with Morgan Y. Liu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University Ethnic Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) attempted to create a… Continue reading Is there a place for Uzbeks in the Kyrgyz Republic? Lessons from Under Solomon’s Throne: Uzbek Visions of Societal Renewal in Osh
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Uzbekistan: Political Order, Societal Changes, and Cultural Transformations
Uzbekistan: Political Order, Societal Changes, and Cultural Transformations Academic knowledge on Uzbekistan blossomed in the 1990s, before drying up in the 2000s and 2010s with the closure of the country… Continue reading Uzbekistan: Political Order, Societal Changes, and Cultural Transformations
What 2015 is promising for labor migrants from Central Asia
By Umida Hashimova
Research Note: Uzbek Online Recruiting to the Syrian Conflict
CERIA Brief No. 3, November 2014 By Noah Tucker Uzbek jihadists in Syria take advantage of low-cost digital media tools to pro-mote intense and successful operations in a way those fighting in Afghanistan and… Continue reading Research Note: Uzbek Online Recruiting to the Syrian Conflict
On methodology and epistemological situation in humanities and social sciences in Central Asia
By Valery Khan
Post-Soviet transformations and the contemporary history of Uzbekistan
By Mirzokhid Rakhimov
The Role and Place of Oral History in Central Asian Studies
By Timur Dadabaev
Uzbekistan’s National Security Strategy: Threat and Response
By Richard Weitz
Doing Business in Uzbekistan: Formal Institutions and Informal Practices
By Erica Marat
Uzbekistan at a crossroads: Main developments, business climate, and political risks
By Akhmed Said
Seeking Divine Harmony: Uzbek Artisans and their Spaces
By Gül Berna Özcan
Digital Memory and a ‘Massacre’: Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
By Sarah Kendzior and Noah Tucker
Hayrullo Hamidov and Uzbekistan’s culture wars: how soccer, poetry, and pop-religion are “a danger to society”
By Noah Tucker
Navro’z and the Renewal of Uzbek National Culture
Uzbekistan Initiative Papers No. 4, February 2014 By Laura L. Adams Navro’z is an important holiday in contemporary Uzbekistan not just because of its profound popularity, but also as an exemplary case of a broader… Continue reading Navro’z and the Renewal of Uzbek National Culture
Explaining Political Order in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan Initiative Papers No. 3, February 2014 By Lawrence P. Markowitz Uzbekistan is regularly listed among the world’s weak states and it is often described as sitting on the threshold of state failure. Yet, Uzbekistan not… Continue reading Explaining Political Order in Uzbekistan
Flexibility or Strategic Confusion? Foreign Policy of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan Initiative Papers No. 2, February 2014 By Farkhod Tolipov The foreign policy of the Republic of Uzbekistan has undergone dramatic fluctuations since gaining independence: from being pro-American to being pro-Russian and then back again. This… Continue reading Flexibility or Strategic Confusion? Foreign Policy of Uzbekistan
