Central Asia

„Caspian Energy Politics - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan

by Indra Overland

Social and political perceptions of the Borat phenomenon in Kazakhstan: evidence from a case study of university students

by Donnacha Ó Beacháin

Studies of Transition States and Societies, Volume 3, No. 3 (November 2011) pp. 51-63

This article begins by chronicling and evaluating the reaction of the government of Kazakhstan to Sacha Baron Cohen’s... more This article begins by chronicling and evaluating the reaction of the government of Kazakhstan to Sacha Baron Cohen’s film Borat—Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It then compares and contrasts the official government reaction with the expressed attitudes of local members of Kazakhstan’s young English-speaking elites. This study is based on the results of a survey of almost five hundred young university students conducted in March 2007 at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP), the most prestigious university in the country. The sample gives a snapshot of those most likely to have been aware of Borat – the young, internet-savvy, educated urban elite – and inter alia provides insights into how respondents in Kazakhstan thought the movie impacted their country and would influence how they were treated abroad. The survey results suggest that while responses to Borat were heterogeneous, most students accepted that the choice of Kazakhstan as a target for satire was coincidental rather than conspiratorial. Despite official efforts to ban the movie, a majority of the respondents had seen the film and believed that the ban was a mistake. Also, while recognising that Borat would raise Kazakhstan’s profile in the world, respondents doubted it would increase knowledge, and some feared a change in their treatment when travelling abroad.

Indentitites in Formation; Nationality, Religion, and Regional Security in former Sovier Central Asia

by Mustafa Aydin

Milletlerarası Münasebetler Türk Yıllığı, 1997

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by Nikolay Tsyrempilov

Excavation of a Medieval castle at Tolebi (Kazakhstan) in 2009

by Maxim Mordovin

Settling Descent. Place-making and Genealogy in Talas

by Judith Beyer

In: Central Asian Survey 30, 3-4. pp. 455-46

Die Aksakal-Gerichte in Kirgistan. Entwicklung und aktuelle Situation einer traditionellen Rechtsinstitution

by Judith Beyer

Authority as Accomplishment. Intergenerational Dynamics in Talas, Northern Kyrgyzstan

by Judith Beyer

Rhetoric of Transformation. The Case of the Kyrgyz Constitutional Reform

by Judith Beyer

Revitalisation, invention and continued existence of the Kyrgyz aksakal courts: Listening to pluralistic accounts of history

by Judith Beyer

Review (and my samokritika): N. Pianciola, "Stalinismo di frontiera" [Frontier Stalinism. Agricultural colonisation, extermination of the nomads, and State-building in Central Asia (1905-1936)], Roma 2009

by Beatrice Penati

This is a much longer version of the review I wrote for Central Eurasian Reader.
I post it online for two reasons: first, because I think this is an important book that deserves to be known beyond the small circle of those who read Italian; second, because in my review for Central Eurasian Reader I misunderstood a passage (p. 486 top). The author pointed this out, and this is my way to do a thorough samokritika.

Türk Dış Politikasında Avrasya Seçeneği

by Uluslararası İlişkiler

Erel Tellal, "Türk Dış Politikasında Avrasya Seçeneği", Uluslararası İlişkiler, Cilt 2, Sayı 5 (Bahar), 2005

Türkiye’nin cumhuriyet yönetimi altında izlediği dış politikanın değişmeyen temel özelliklerinden biri de “Batı’ya... more Türkiye’nin cumhuriyet yönetimi altında izlediği dış politikanın değişmeyen temel özelliklerinden biri de “Batı’ya yönelik olması”dır.Hal böyle olmakla birlikte, son on yıl içerisinde Türkiye’nin önüne bir “Avrasya seçeneği” gelip dayanmıştır. Türkiye yetmiş yıllık “reddiye”nin ardından, bağımsızlıklarını kazanmalarını izleyen yıllarda özellikle Orta Asya ve güney Kafkasya devletleriyle ilişkilerini geliştirmeye (iyi ilişkiler kurmaya) çabalamıştır. On yıllık çaba on yıllık başarısızlık olarak değerlendirilebilir. Bunda, politika belirleme/uygulama sürecinde devletin ve onun politikasını yürütmesi beklenen Dışişleri Bakanlığı’nın etkisiz kalması ile bu boşluğu kendilerini “büyük ağabey” yerine koyan aşırı ulusçularla, “ümmeti kucaklama sevdası”na düşen köktendincilerin etkisi önemli etkenler olmuştur. Başarısızlıkta bölgeden ve uluslararası ortamdan kaynaklanan nedenler de rol oynamıştır. İkinci on yılda Türkiye bölgeye yönelik politikalarında başarı sağlamak için bu etkenleri saptamalı, bölge ülkeleri ve özellikle de Rusya Federasyonu ile işbirliğine yönelmelidir.

Kazakh–Hungarian Archaeological Investigations in the Zhetisu Region

by Maxim Mordovin

Into Russian Turkistan, 1872-1917: English Travel Literature and the Creation of the Russian Orient

by Noah Tucker

“Ordinary People” and the Violence of Collapse (Osh, Part III)

by Noah Tucker

Osh, Part II: The Suffering of Others

by Noah Tucker

Osh, Part I: City of Echo Chambers

by Noah Tucker

The (Dis)order-of-Things (Osh, Part IV)

by Noah Tucker

Des Chinois et des Hu Migrations et intégration des Iraniens orientaux en milieu chinois durant le haut Moyen Âge (with E. Trombert)

by Etienne de la Vaissière

de la Vaissière, É., Trombert, É., « Des Chinois et des Hu. Migrations et intégration des Iraniens orientaux en milieu chinois durant le Haut Moyen-Âge », Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 59e année, n° 5-6, 2004, p. 931-969.

Depiction of the social structures of the Sogdian communities in Early Medieval China Depiction of the social structures of the Sogdian communities in Early Medieval China

The Triple System of Orography in Ptolemy’s Xinjiang

by Etienne de la Vaissière

31. « The triple system of orography in Ptolemy’s Xinjiang », in W. Sundermann, A. Hintze, F. de Blois (éd.), Exegisti Monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams, (Iranica, 17), Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2009, p. 527-535.

Key to the understanding of Ptolemy's map of Central Asia Key to the understanding of Ptolemy's map of Central Asia