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ON-LINE PUBL.- Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age
Posted by: Jeannine Davis-Kimball <jkimball csen.org>
Posted: 5 Feb 2007
ON-LINE PUBL.- Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age
Now available in electronic format:
Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age
Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Vladimir Bashilov, and Leonid Yablonsky, eds.
Berkeley: Zinat Press, 1995.
438 pp., 490 ill., 19 maps, extensive bibliography, index, index of
contemporary authors. ISBN 188579-00-2.
Download at:
http://csen.org/Pubs_Sales_Reviews/Nomads/Nomads.Description.html
This anthology focuses on the Scythian, Sauromatian, Sarmatian, and
Saka Iron Age nomads who inhabited the Eurasian steppes in the first
millennium BC. Written by ten of the foremost archaeologists from the
Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, the material
presents a survey of Soviet archaeology from 1960 to 1990. The
majority of the material, including many illustrations, has never been
published in English before this volume.
Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Ph.D.
Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads
805-653-2607
http://csen.org
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 24 January 2007, is online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 1 Feb 2007
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 24 January 2007, is online
Highlights: This Analyst issue features Richard Weitz on Europe's
Uzbekistan dilemma, Fariz Ismailzade on Azerbaijani-Georgian
relations, Mamuka Tsereteli on the prospects of a Black Sea-Caspian
natural gas bridge, and Ryan Kennedy on merging Kazakhstani political
parties. In Field reports, articles on Chinese-Kazakh relations, the
Russian ambassador's return to Tbilisi, a new Kyrgyz foreign policy
concept, and housing problems in Tajikistan.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"The Wider Black Sea Region: An Emerging Hub In European Security"
By Svante E. Cornell, Anna Jonsson, Niklas Nilsson, and Per Haggstrom,
120pages.
Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0612Blacksea_P.pdf
"The State-Crime Nexus In Central Asia: State Weakness, Organized
Crime And Corruption In Kyrgyzstan And Tajikistan"
By Erica Marat, 138 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610EMarat.pdf
"Minorities And The State In The South Caucasus: Assessing The
Protection Of National Minorities In Georgia And Azerbaijan"
By Johanna Popjanevski, 85 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0609Popjanevski.pdf
The 24 January issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 9,
no. 2) is now online at http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version of
the entire issue of the 24 January CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20070124Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
Analytical Articles:
Can The Eu Resolve The Uzbekistan Dilemma In 2007
Richard Weitz
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4680
Azerbaijan And Europe: Toward Closer Integration?
Fariz Ismailzade
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4681
Building A Black Sea/Caspian Natural Gas Bridge: Challenges And Opportunities
Mamuka Tsereteli
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4682
Consolidation Of Political Parties In Kazakhstan Strengthens President's Hand
Ryan Kennedy
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4683
Field Reports
As Nursultan Nazarbayev And Hu Jintao Shake Hands, Uncertainties Linger
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4684
Russian Ambassador Returns To Georgia, But Sanctions Remain
Kakha Jibladze
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4685
New Kyrgyz Foreign Policy Concept Passed
Joldosh Osmonov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4686
A Housing Crisis In Tajikistan?
Bakhtiyor Naimov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4687
News Digest:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development, economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL.- The Hemshin, by Hovann Simonian
Posted by: Sarah Slater <Sarah.Slatertandf.co.uk>
Posted: 31 Jan 2007
PUBL.- The Hemshin, by Hovann Simonian
Routledge are pleased to announce the publication of:
THE HEMSHIN
History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey
Hovann Simonian, University of Southern California, USA
December 2006: 234x156: 452pp
Hb: 978-0-7007-0656-3
The Hemshin are without doubt one of the most enigmatic peoples of
Turkey and the Caucasus. As former Christians who converted to Islam
centuries ago yet did not assimilate into the culture of the
surrounding Muslim populations, as Turks who speak Armenian yet are
often not aware of it, as Muslims who continue to celebrate feasts
that are part of the calendar of the Armenian Church, and as
descendants of Armenians who, for the most part, have chosen to deny
their Armenian origins in favour of recently invented myths of Turkic
ancestry, the Hemshin and the seemingly irreconcilable differences
within their group identity have generated curiosity and often controversy.
The Hemshin is the first scholarly work to provide an in-depth study
of these people living in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. This
groundbreaking volume brings together chapters written by an
international group of scholars that cover the history, language,
economy, culture and identity of the Hemshin. It is further enriched
with an unprecedented collection of maps, pictures and appendices of
up-to-date statistics. The Hemshin forms part of the Peoples of the
Caucasus series, an indispensable and yet accessible resource for all
those with an interest in the Caucasus.
For further information and to view the table of contents, or to order
this book, please follow this link:
http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&
isbn=9780700706563&pc=
Part of the Caucasus World: Peoples of the Caucasus series:
http://www.routledge.com/asianstudies/series_list.asp?series=6
If you are a review editor for a journal and would like to receive a
review copy, please email Sarah Slater on sarah.slatertandf.co.uk
with the name and details of the journal and the address to send the book.
PUBL.- European Integration and Hegemony in the South Caucasus (German)
Posted by: Anna Jenderedjian <annajendyahoo.com>
Posted: 29 Jan 2007
PUBL.- European Integration and Hegemony in the South Caucasus (German)
European Integration and Hegemony in the South Caucasus
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia on the Way to Europe (German)
by Vahram Soghomonyan
ISBN 978-3-8329-2403- 4
Nomos publishing house
In the course of a comprehensive value change in the South Caucasus,
Armenia and Georgia are trying to uphold their European identity. At
the same time, oil interests challenge the democratisation of
Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, the political landscape of the South Caucasus
is strongly distinguished by the '88 Karabakh movement and the Rose
revolution. The growing consensus for integration is fostering a
regional cooperation model within the European framework.
Which social forces and capital interests, such as the capital of
Diaspora and oil companies are pushing forward the Europeanization of
the region? These and other issues discussed in the study describe the
current reconfiguration process, which raises the question of Europe's
borders and emphasises the role of the South Caucasus as a
geopolitical bridgehead.
http://www.nomos.de/nomos/d/recherche/titel_rech/tit_listefs.lasso
Im Zuge eines umfassenden Wertewandels im Südkaukasus versuchen
Armenien und Georgien ihre europäische Identität zu behaupten.
Zugleich wird die Demokratisierung Aserbaidschans durch
Erdölinteressen herausgefordert. Dabei sind für den Südkaukasus die
88er Karabach-Bewegung und die Rosenrevolution prägend. Der
heranwachsende Konsens zur Integration stellt ein regionales
Kooperationsprojekt in Anbindung an Europa in Aussicht.
Welche sozialen Kräfte und Kapitalinteressen, z.B. von Diasporakapital
und Energiekonzernen, treiben die Europäisierung der Region voran?
Diese Rekonfi guration wirft die Frage nach den Grenzen Europas auf
und hebt die Rolle der Region als geopolitischer Brückenkopf hervor.
Europäische Integration und Hegemonie im Südkaukasus
Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien auf dem Weg nach Europa
Von Vahram Soghomonyan
2007, 204 S.,
ISBN 978-3-8329-2403- 4
(Nomos Universitätsschrifte n - Politik, Bd. 140)
http://www.nomos.de/nomos/d/recherche/titel_rech/tit_listefs.lasso
PUBL.- Two Conference Volumes on Inner Asia, Edited by David Sneath
Posted by: Scott Pearce <Scott.Pearcewwu.edu>
Posted: 29 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Two Conference Volumes on Inner Asia, Edited by David Sneath
PUBL.-East Asian Publications, Western Washington University, is
pleased to announce publication of two conference volumes on Inner
Asia edited by David Sneath.
1. Imperial Statecraft: Political Forms and Techniques of Governance
in Inner Asia, Sixth-Twentieth Centuries.
2. States of Mind: Power, Place and The Subject in Inner Asia.
The contents of both volumes come from a conference held at Cambridge
University in March 2004.
Imperial Statecraft includes the following chapters:
- Preface, By Charles Melville
- Imperial Statecraft: Arts Of Power On The Steppe, By David Sneath
- The Türk Imperial Tradition In The Pre-Chinggisid Era, By Peter B. Golden
- Between China And Islam: The Administration Of The Qara Khitai
(Western Liao) 1124-1218, By Michal Biran
- Relations Of Domination And Submission: Political Practice In The
Mongol Empire Of Chinggis Khan, By Tatyana D. Skrynnikova
- Technologies Of Governance In The Mongolian Empire: A Geographic
Overview, By Thomas T. Allsen
- Ulus Emirs, Keshig Elders, Signatures, And Marriage Partners: The
Evolution Of A Classic Mongol Institution, By Christopher P. Atwood
- The Khan's City: Kökeqota And The Role Of A Capital City In
Mongolian State Formation, By Isabelle Charleux
- Titles, Appanages, Marriages, And Officials: A Comparison Of
Political Forms In The Zünghar And Thirteenth-Century Mongol Empires,
By Christopher P. Atwood
- Competing Strategies Of Great Khan Legitimacy In The Context Of The
Chaqar-Manchu Wars (C. 1620-1634), By Nicola Di Cosmo
- The Term Törü In Mongolian History, By Caroline Humphrey And A. Hürelbaatar
- Ordering Subjects: Mongolian Civil And Military
Administration(Seventeenth To Twentieth Centuries), By Jigjidiin
Boldbaatar And David Sneath
States of Mind includes the following chapters:
- Institutions, Idioms And Technologies Of Power In Inner Asia, By
David Sneath
- A Challenging Technique Involving Imaginary Figures Of Power Among
The Pre-Soviet West-Buryats, By Roberte N. Hamayon
- The Place Of The Dead: Power, Subjectivity And Funerary Topography
In North-Western Mongolia, By Grégory Delaplace
- Exemplars And Heroes: The Individual And The Moral In The Mongolian
Political Imagination, By Christopher Kaplonski
- Games Of Power: State Control, The Naadam And The Cult Of Chinggis
Khan, By Gaëlle Lacaze
- Competing Ideologies Of Statehood And Governance In Central Asia:
Turkic Dynasties In Transoxania And Their Legacy In Contemporary
Politics, By Peter Finke
- Sacral Kings And Divine Sovereigns: Principles Of Tibetan Monarchy
In Theory And Practice, By Charles Ramble
- Faith, Nation And Gender Politics: Three Women Rulers In The
Mongolian-Tibetan Borderlands, By Hildegard Diemberger
- The Regime Of Affection: Inter-Ethnic Adoption And The Emotional
Economy Of National Unity In Contemporary China, By Uradyn E. Bulag
Orders and Inquiries:
Email Scott.Pearcewwu.edu,
Or visit http://www.wwu.edu/eas/pubs.shtml
PUBL.- Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Awards Established
Posted by: Scott Levi <scott.levilouisville.edu>
Posted: 29 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Awards Established
The Central Eurasian Studies Society is pleased to announce the
establishment of two new CESS Book Awards, one for work in the History
& Humanities and another for work in the Social Sciences. The
competitions for these awards will be held in alternate years,
beginning in 2007 with the CESS History & Humanities Book Award.
Each year the CESS Book Award and a monetary prize of $500 will be
presented to the author of the research monograph, published in the
preceding two years, that represents the most important contribution
to Central Eurasian Studies, or that holds the greatest potential for
furthering scholarship on the Central Eurasian region. An
interdisciplinary panel of three scholars of Central Eurasia,
appointed annually by the CESS Executive Board, will consider
scholarly merit, argumentative scope, and felicity of style in their
deliberations.
Rules for the competition are as follows:
- Books must be scholarly monographs based on original research and
published in English during the two calendar years preceding the award
(as measured by the printed copyright date). For example, books with
a publication date of 2005 or 2006 may be considered for the 2007
History & Humanities competition; books with a publication date of
2006 or 2007 may be considered for the 2008 Social Science competition.
- Books may be submitted for one competition only, and no book may be
considered more than once.
- Scholarly monographs translated into English from other languages
may be considered.
- Edited volumes, new editions of previously published books,
bibliographies, dictionaries and textbooks are not eligible.
- Nominations may be made by either the publisher or the author. In
order for a book to be considered, three copies must be received by
April 1 of the year of the competition.
- Authors need not be members of CESS to be nominated, but must
become members by the nomination deadline (April 1) to be considered.
The winning author will receive the monetary prize and a certificate
of award at an awards ceremony held at the annual CESS conference.
The results will also be announced in the Central Eurasian Studies Newsletter.
For the 2007 CESS History & Humanities Book Award competition, please
ensure that three copies of the nominated book reach the current chair
of the CESS Awards Committee at the following address by April 1, 2007:
Professor Douglas Northrop
Department of Near Eastern Studies
4111 Thayer Academic Building
202 South Thayer St.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <shairbekipp.kg>
Posted: 24 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public
Policy, Kyrgyzstan (January 09 - January 23, 2007), appearing on the
Institute's website:
"Certain Aspects of Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Policy in 2006"
Erlan Abdyldaev
"Lessons for Central Asia: A Socio-Economic Development Model in Eastern Asia"
Muratbek Imanaliev
Kyrgyzstan in 2006: Achievements, Lessons and Perspectives
Roundtable summary
"New Constitution: What is Next?"
Roundtable summary
"Institutional Aspects of Cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and the
European Union: Unlearned Lessons"
Jomart Ormonbekov
On March 3-4 the Institute for Public Policy will organize a 2-day
training workshop for policy centers of Central Asia. Those
interested, please write to Shairbek Juraev at s.juraevipp.kg.
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
Russian version is available at http://www.ipp.kg/ru
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL.- India - Tajikistan Cooperation: Perspectives and Prospects
Posted by: Dr Ramakant Dwivedi <ramakantdwivedigmail.com>
Posted: 22 Jan 2007
PUBL.- India - Tajikistan Cooperation: Perspectives and Prospects
India - Tajikistan Cooperation: Perspectives and Prospects
Editors:
K Santhanam
President
India - Central Asia Foundation
Vasant Kunj, New Delhi - 67, India
Ramakant Dwivedi
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Block No. 3, Old JNU Campus
New Delhi - 110 067, India
ISBN 13 978-81-88342-06-8 / ISBN 10 81-88342-06-8 © 2007 / Hb. / 5.5"
x 8.5" / 375 gm/ xxiv + 188 pp. / Rs. 575.00
Tajikistan is an important country in Central Asia based on its
geographic location and hydro energy resources. For India, the
developments in Tajikistan would continue to be important as Dushanbe
is part of its extended neighbourhood. International terrorism,
religious extremism and drug trafficking are of critical importance to
both countries. The security environment in Central Asia has undergone
significant changes after 9/11 and the global war against terrorism
and attempts to stabilise Afghanistan have posed new challenges.
Central Asian republics are mercifully blessed with an abundance of
natural resources including energy materials. With energy security now
at the centre of the stage, Central Asia is drawing international attention.
This volume is an outcome of months of planning and discussion with
Tajik scholars. It aims at enabling a better understanding of India -
Tajikistan relations through scholarly exchanges and sharing India's
perceptions of the politico-economic-security issues faced in Central
Asian region. The book is a collection of 12 articles from well-known
scholars from India and Tajikistan. Tajik President Emomali S.
Rahmonov provides an overview of present-day Central Asia. ICAF hopes
that this book would contribute towards a greater and enlightened
appreciation of Indo-Tajik relations and would be of direct interest
to scholars, policy makers, diplomats, entrepreneurs and academics
involved with Central Asia.
K Santhanam is presently President of The India-Central Asia
Foundation (ICAF). He was Director General, Institute for Defence
Studies Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi till July 31 2004 and earlier was
Chief Adviser (Technology) in the Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO). He has worked for about 43 years in the area of
science, technology and security and contributed to the evolution of
India's positions on disarmament and arms control. He has served as
India member in the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts set up by
the UN Secretary General (1978-80) on verification of arms control
treaties, has been Scientific Adviser in the Ministry of External
affairs (1984-86) and a member of the National Security Advisory
Board. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan award in recognition of his
contributions to the Shakti-98 series of nuclear tests conducted in
May 1998. He was the editor, Strategic Analysis (New Delhi). His
recent published works include co-authorship of Jihadis in Jammu and
Kashmir: A Portrait Gallery (Sage Publications, New Delhi 2003); Iraq
War 2003: Rise of the New 'Unilateralism' (Ane Books, New Delhi 2003)
; Asian Security and China 2000-2010 (Shipra Publications, New Delhi
2004) and India And Central Asia: Advancing the Common Interest (IDSA
and Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, 2004), India And Kazakhstan
Relations: Enhancing the Partnership (KazISS, Almaty and Anamaya
Publishers, New Delhi, 2006) and India-Tajikistan Cooperation:
Perspectives and Prospects (ICAF & Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi,
2007), India- Kazakhstan Perspectives: Regional and International
Interactions (ICAF & Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, 2007).
Dr. Ramakant Dwivedi is Associate Fellow at Institute for Defence
Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. He has a PhD from the Central
Asian Studies Division of the School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Dwivedi was a Visiting
Research Fellow at the Al-Beruni Institute of Oriental Studies,
Tashkent (1998-2001). His major areas of research are security,
foreign policy, ethnic issues and religious extremism in Eurasian
region (Russia, Caucasus and Central Asian countries). He holds a
Diploma in the Russian Language from the University of World Economy
and Diplomacy, Tashkent and a Diploma in the Uzbek Language from the
Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan. He has
widely travelled in the Eurasian region. His published works include
25 research papers in national/international journals, edited books
and co-authorship of India and Central Asia: Advancing the Common
Interest (IDSA & Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, 2004),
India-Tajikistan Cooperation: Perspectives and Prospects (ICAF &
Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, 2007) and India- Kazakhstan
Perspectives: Regional and International Interactions (ICAF & Anamaya
Publishers, New Delhi, 2007).
Contents:
A Presidential Overview
The Role and Place of Tajikistan in Regional Cooperation - Emomali
Sharifovich Rahmonov
Overview of India-Tajik Ties and Pointers to the Future
1. Indo-Tajik Relations: A Historical Perspective - M A Kaw
2. India -Tajikistan Relations: A Quest for Regional Stability - B. R.
Muthu Kumar
3. Tajikistan-India Relations: Past, Present and Future - Umed Nazarov
4. India-Tajikistan Relations: The Political Dimension - Sanjay Pandey
5. Tajikistan's Foreign Policy: An Indian Perspective - S. P. Singh
Regional Economic Cooperation with a focus on India and Tajikistan
6. Hydel Status of Tajikistan and the Future- Abdullo Yarov
7. Tajikistan's Economy and Indo-Tajik Trade and Economic Relations-
Gulshan Sachdeva
8. India's Investments in Tajikistan: Prospects and Challenges- Anil Sharma
9. Russia - Central Asia Relations in post Soviet Period - Arun Mohanty
Terrorism, Drug Trafficking and Religious Extremism
10. Terrorism and Religious Extremism in Central Asia- Salohiddin Nasriddinov
11. Control Measures in Tajikistan for Drug Trafficking - Rustam Nazarov
12. Challenges of Religious Extremism in Tajikistan - Ramakant Dwivedi
To order your copy please contact:
Anamaya Publishers
F-230 Lado Sarai, New Delhi - 110 030 (INDIA)
Telephone: +91 011 2952 3205
E-mail: anamayapub vsnl.net
PUBL.- Rebirth of Kazakhstan: 1986 December Events, by Abdulvahap Kara
Posted by: Abdulvahap Kara <kara_vahapyahoo.com>
Posted: 22 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Rebirth of Kazakhstan: 1986 December Events, by Abdulvahap Kara
PUBL.- Rebirth of Kazakhstan: 1986 December Events
Kara, Abdulvahap, Rebirth of Kazakhstan: 1986 December Events, (in
Turkish) pp. 175, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006. ISBN: 975 - 8806 -18 -1,
Price: YTL 10 ($ 7)
About the Book
Twenty years ago, a historical event took place in Almaty, December
1986, the leader of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR),
Dinmuhammaet Kunaev, was removed from office as part of Mikhail
Gorbachev's Central Asian policy. Kunaev's replacement was Gennady
Kolbin, an ethnic Russian who had no previous connection to
Kazakhstan. But the Kazakhs who took to the streets in mass protests
in December 1986 were dismissed as drunkards and hooligans by the
Communist authorities who crushed their uprising. However it was a
purely democratic protests. The book of the Rebirth of Kazakhstan 1986
December Events attempts to explain all realities and aspects of the event.
Contents:
Preface
Chapter I: Before the Events
Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika Policies
Demographic Developments in Kazakhstan
Language and Culture in Kazakhstan
Gorbachev's Central Asian Policy
Assignment of Gennady Kolbin
Chapter II: During the Events
Course of the Events
Prosecution of the Protestors
Reflections of the Events in the Press
Victims of the Events
Chapter III: Impacts of the Events
Accusing Kazakhs of Nationalism
Purification of Kazak Cadres by Kolbin
Punishments of Protestors
Reactions of death penalty of Riskulbekov
Chapter IV: Searching of Realities of the Events
Attempts to Abolish the Ban of Searching the Events
Activities of the Association of Zheltoksan
Activities of the America-Helsinki Human Rights Group
Activities of the Kazakh Parlament's Investigation Commission
Chapter V: The Secret Operation of Snowstorm Executed in the Events
Content of the Operation
Aim of the Operation
Responsibles of the Operation
Those who Awarded for Participants of Operation
Conclusion
Bibliography
For Details Contact
Ufuk Otesi Publishers
www.ufukotesi.com
For Orders by the Internet
www.kitapyurdu.com
About the Author
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdulvahap Kara
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Faculty of Literature and Science
Department of History
Findikli-Istanbul, Turkey
karavahap gmail.com
PUBL.- Kirimcaklar, by Erdogan Altinkaynak
Posted by: Mehmet Tutuncu <m.tutuncuquicknet.nl>
Posted: 22 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Kirimcaklar, by Erdogan Altinkaynak
Kirimçaklar
(Kültür - Tarih - Folklor)
Kirimchaks (Culture-History-Folklore)
Yazar/Author: Erdogan Altinkaynak
ISBN-10: 90-807403-8-1
ISBN-13: 978-90-807403-8-9
Turquoise Series/ Turkuaz Dizi 15
Published in 2006, Haarlem, Netherlands
193 pp.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of the
first book in Turkish of Krymchaks a community of Turkic-speaking
adherents of Rabbinic Judaism living in Crimea. They have
historically lived in close proximity to the Karaims (Crimean
Karaites). At first krymchak was a Russian descriptive used to
differentiate them from their Ashkenazi coreligionists, as well as
other Jewish communities in the former Russian Empire such as the
Georgian Jews, but in the second half of the 19th century this name
was adopted by the Krymchaks themselves. The book contains material
on the History, Culture and Folklore of Krymchaks and literary texts
are also given like Ashik Gharip Hikayesi in Krymchak.
The book costs EUR 35 (excl. postage) and is available from address
given below.
Yayinci/Publisher:
SOTA / Turkestan and Azerbaijan Research Centre
Postbus 9642
2003 LP Haarlem
Netherlands
Tel: + 31 23 5292883
Fax: + 31 23 5292883
Email: m.tutuncuquicknet.nl or sotawanadoo.nl
Web: www.turkistan.org
PUBL.- Economic Autonomy and Democracy, by Kelly McMann
Posted by: Gary Suarez <gsuarezcambridge.org>
Posted: 22 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Economic Autonomy and Democracy, by Kelly McMann
Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Economic Autonomy and Democracy
Hybrid Regimes in Russia and Kyrgyzstan
by
Kelly M. McMann
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Case Western Reserve University
How do individuals decide to exercise their democratic rights? This
book argues that they first assess their economic autonomy, meaning
their ability to make a living independent of government authorities.
Before individuals consider whether their resources and organizational
abilities are adequate to act on their interests, they calculate the
risk of political activism to their livelihood. This is particularly
evident in regions of the world where states monopolize the economy
and thus can readily harass activists at their workplaces. Economic
autonomy links capitalism and democracy through individuals'
calculations about activism. Accounts of activists' decisions about
establishing independent media, leading political organizations, and
running for office and descriptions of government harassment in Russia
and Kyrgyzstan, along with examples from most regions of the world,
illustrate these arguments. Economic autonomy and the interaction
among democratic rights help explain the global proliferation of
hybrid regimes, governments that display both democratic and
authoritarian characteristics.
For more information or to read an excerpt, please visit:
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521857611
(North America)
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521857611(Europe
and R.O.W.)
Please Note Our New Address
32 Avenue of The Americas
New York, NY 10013-2473
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PUBL.- Social Research Center at American University of Central Asia Reports and Events
Posted by: Tairova <tairova_amail.auca.kg>
Posted: 19 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Social Research Center at AUCA Reports and Events
SRC Publications
Publications and summaries of recent events from Social Research
Center (SRC) at American University of Central Asia (AUCA)
http://www.src.auca.kg
Reports By Visiting Research Fellows
Report By Ted Callahan: The Kyrgyz Of The Afghan Pamir Ride On
Approximately 1,400 - 1,700 Kyrgyz are living in the Afghan Pamirs
today, probably in one of the most challenging environments
imaginable. The remoteness of their living space, lack of
infrastructure and public services, some of the world's highest rates
of maternal and child mortality, opium use and the difficult period
experienced by the Afghan Kyrgyz following the withdrawal of Soviet
forces in 1989 and the predatory reign of the mujahideen factions in
Badakhshan province thereafter have led to particularly alarming
living conditions. Over the past 10 years, the Kyrgyz have witnessed
many aid projects delivered to their communities through the efforts
of several international NGOs, but with little success, which also
provoked other ideas like relocation or "repatriation".
This paper seeks to provide a short overview of the recent history and
current situation of the Afghan Kyrgyz. The paper is based on two
field trips to the region made by the author as well as a survey of
the extant English-language literature concerning the Afghan Kyrgyz.
Report By Eren Murat Tasar: The State's Conceptualization Of Islam In
Soviet Central Asia, 1954-1964
Anti-religious propaganda and policies were part of the elemental
self-conception of the Communist Soviet state, which also became
manifested in its conceptualization of Islam in Soviet Central Asia.
During the widespread anarchy and terror of the 1920s and 1930s,
mosques, shrines, and their affiliated clergy and caretakers had
suffered heavily in the course of violent Soviet anti-Islam
initiatives. Although anti-religious measures and anti-Islamic
literature in the aftermath reveal a certain continuity of the
Communist state's conceptualization of Islam, the dynamics of the
Khrushchev-era saw a number of important changes.
The introduction of highly detailed statistics on clergy, shrines and
pilgrims in the 50s and 60s, the study of Soviet Orientalism, as well
as of polemic and anti-religious literature of the Khrushchev-era mark
a certain shift in the state's relationship with religion and the
conceptualization of Islam in Soviet Central Asia.
Report By Professor Aftab Kazi: Geopolinomics Of Transit Routes
Between Central And South Asia
The power vacuum caused by the collapse of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR) has initiated the processes of an emerging
political order, which, among other things, has to determine that the
landlocked Central Asian countries including Afghanistan and Caucasus
are reconnected with the world economy through region's traditional
cost effective transportation routes in Southwest Asia. There are
geopolinomic reasons to believe that the presence of alternative
routes of transportation through Central Asia's historic land and sea
outlets originating in Southwest Asia through the warm waters of the
Arabian Sea can stimulate the regional and cross-continental trade
with positive impact over the ongoing economic and political
transitions as well as broader regional stability.
Report By Alexander Wolters: Group Identities And Political Conflict
In Kyrgyzstan: A Theoretical Approach
Can political struggles, as many scholars argue, be best explained as
conflicts between different groups within Kyrgyz society, struggling
for the access to scarce resources or is there, on the contrary, a
process of group-identity dissolution in Kyrgyzstan going on since the
breakup of the USSR?
Alexander Wolter's article challenges the assumption that there is
only one group-identity, which is able to account for political
struggles in Kyrgyzstan and questions the very static perception of
group-identities as producing stable patterns of social conflict in
Central Asia. In reality, the political landscape is much more complex
and needs a more differentiated explanation: the idea of the adaptive
power of group-identities once proved in Soviet times is not
necessarily still valid for the post-Soviet period.
Report By Eren Murat Tasar: Identity And Statecraft In The Khanates Of
Movarrounahr, 1700-1850
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed radical changes in
the socio-political structures of the Bukharan, Khivan and Khokand
polities. All three saw the emergence of ruling dynasties that
reformulated the dispensation of sovereignty, ushering in a
legitimation of rule new to Central Asia. This change in statecraft
mirrored profound socio-cultural changes occurring within the
societies of the three khanates. The rise of a new conceptualization
of leadership reoriented the loci of power, thereby upsetting the
socio-political complex that constituted the legacy, in Central Asia,
of Chingizid statecraft.
The new state rulers reformulated the relationship of the sovereign to
Islam and the community of believers as a means of justifying their
departure from the Chingizid tradition. A new breed of centralization
and a departure from Chinigzid legitimation were common to all three
khanates and these phenomena constituted an embryonic Central Asian
experience of modernity before the arrival of colonial rule.
LECTURES
Lecture: Democracy, Market Economy, Or Rule Of Law - What Would You
Choose If You Could Only Have One?
"Democracy" features prominently among the suggested conditions for
future recipients of development aid, since the unconditional aid of
Western governments over the last 50 years is widely considered a
failure. Is it really a good way of securing good governance by
forcing developing countries into democratic structures as we know
them in Europe or the U.S.? Professor Frank Emmert of the University
at Indianapolis (Indiana) challenges this position and claims that it
may actually be counter-productive for development. Is it possible to
achieve a functioning democracy by making it a top priority condition
for development aid or can it only be the result of a peaceful
development in a stable society? Professor Emmert explains why primary
and secondary needs have to be satisfied before people will be
interested and able to participate in real democracy.
Lecture By Dr. Diana M. Pierce: The Feminization Of Poverty: Is It
Only In America, Or Is It Globalizing Phenomenon?
Almost three decades ago, Dr. Pierce started tracing causes and
dynamics of the alarming phenomenon of the feminization of poverty and
examined its different meanings in a variety of contexts. The analysis
of the current situation in Central Asia reveals that the problem of
the feminization of poverty is very striking due to some additional
factors specific to this region, aggravating the dimension of the
initial situation in the US. The report questions: What are problems
and decisive factors specific to Central Asian countries and which
role does this play for the overall assessment of the current situation?
Lecture: Marriage Strategies In Kyrgyzstan: Older And Younger Generations
Gulnara Ibraeva, Ph.D in Sociology (Kandidat Nauk) and AUCA Acting
Associate Professor, presented the results of her research, analyzing
the similarities and differences in marriage strategies adopted by
both female and male residents in the urban area. This research is
anchored by qualitative and quantitative research methods and based on
a number of theories including conceptual theory of fields,
distribution and habits by Pierre Bourdieu, econometric model by
Bekker, and theory of gender regime by Connell as well as the concept
of "urban tribe" by Herbert Gans. The full report pictures marriage
strategies of the transition society and focuses on intergenerational
dynamics of marriage strategies.
ROUNDTABLES
Roundtable: Seven Days In November
For seven days thousands of protestors hold out in front of the
Presidential Palace in Bishkek, calling for reforms, the adoption of a
new constitution and the resignation of President Kurmanbek Bakiev. On
the 9th of November 2006, the President signed a new constitutional
text, after 65 of the 75 members of the Kyrgyz Parliament had voted in
favor of the modification and defused the most important political
crisis in Kyrgyzstan since the peaceful revolution in 2005. The
summary of the roundtable organized by SRC provides an overview over
comments and analyses of some political analysts, academicians, and scholars.
Roundtable: Parallels Between 1956 Revolution In Hungary And Tulip
Revolution 2005 In Kyrgyzstan
The identification of parallels between the Hungarian revolution and
the Tulip Revolution 2005 in Kyrgyzstan was the central theme of the
roundtable devoted to the 50th anniversary of the revolution in
Hungary. The key speaker was Professor Biro Zoltan, former Policy
Security Advisor to the Hungarian Prime Minister and current Senior
Research Fellow of the History Institute of the Hungarian Academy of
Science. Other participants included representatives of the Hungarian
Embassy in Kazakhstan, local historians, political scientists and scholars.
Please visit the website to read more about these events and reports.
PUBL.- German Business Guide to Kazakhstan
Posted by: Ulf Seegers <useegershtwm.de>
Posted: 19 Jan 2007
PUBL.- German Business Guide to Kazakhstan
"Managerhandbuch Kasachstan" is the first Insvestor's Guide to
Kazakhstan in German language. Visit www.wirtschaft-kasachstan.de for
further information on Central Asians most powerfull economy and the
publication "Managerhandbuch Kasachstan". Contact: Kess Kreativstatt
GbR (publishing house), Waldheimer Str. 20, 09648 Mittweida, GERMANY,
E-Mail: infomanagerhandbuch-kasachstan.de
PUBL.- The Semetey of Kenje Kara
Posted by: Robert Gietz <rgietzharrassowitz.de>
Posted: 12 Jan 2007
PUBL.- The Semetey of Kenje Kara
The Semetey of Kenje Kara
A Kirghiz Epic Performance on Phonograph
with a Musical Score and a Compact Disc of the Phonogram
Edited, translated and with an introduction and commentary by Daniel Prior
Kirghiz text transcribed with the assistance of Ishembi Obolbekov
Turcologica, Band 59
2006. XVIII, 155 pages, 4 ill., 1 Audio CD, pb
ISBN 978-3-447-05138-5
EUR 68.00 /sFr 116.00 /US D ca. 90,00
The Semetey of Kenje Kara is a multi-disciplinary performance edition
of an early sound recording of Kirghiz (Central Asian Turkic) oral
epic poetry by the bard Kenje Kara. The core of the work consists of a
combined musical and verbal transcription of the sung poem together
with facing-page text and English translation, plus a copy of the
original wax-cylinder phonogram on compact disc. The phonogram, made
in 1903, is one of the oldest acoustic records of an oral epic
performance in existence. It is also the oldest sound sample of
Kirghiz language and music; few comparable recordings of such date
exist from any location or ethnic group in Central Asia. Surviving
written information and drawings illuminate aspects of the recording
session and make the phonogram a remarkably well-rounded early
document of an oral performance. The episode of the epic Semetey
narrated by Kenje Kara is widely attested by earlier and later bards,
which makes comparative study possible. Altogether, the Kenje Kara
Semetey phonogram offers a unique opportunity to carry out holistic
study of an early oral performance. The present edition addresses all
these claims to scholarly attention together for the first time.
For orders and to see the contents:
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/pcgi/a.cgi?T=1168538065&ID=0293x8525
003x31624x-215&ausgabe=detail&alayout=489&aref=3356
or contact your international bookseller
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 10 January 2007, is online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 12 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 10 January 2007, is online
Highlights: This Analyst issue features two articles on post-Niyazov
Turkmenistan. Slavomir Horak analyzes the succession itself and
prospects for political development, while Christopher Boucek
discusses the implications for energy security. In addition, Stephen
Blank examines Baku's dilemma in dealing with the Iranian conflict
with the West, while Peterson and Ziyadov study Georgia's and
Azerbaijan's energy dispute with Moscow.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"The Wider Black Sea Region: An Emerging Hub In European Security"
By Svante Cornell, Anna Jonsson, Niklas Nilsson, and Per Häggström,
120 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0612Blacksea_P.pdf
"The North Korean Nuclear Test And Its Implications"
By Liu Lin, 40 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/2006/LiuLin%20F
inal061204.pdf
"The Politicization Of Islam In Azerbaijan"
By Svante E. Cornell, 75 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610Azer.pdf
The 10 January issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 9,
no. 1) is now online at http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version of
the entire issue of the 1
November CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20070110Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
Turkmenistan's Succession: Welcome To Berdymuhammedov's World
Slavomir Horak
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4642
Energy Security Implications Of Post-Niyazov Turkmenistan
Christopher Boucek
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4643
Walking A Tightrope: Azerbaijan And The Politics Of Iranian Nuclear Weapons
Stephen Blank
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4644
Azerbaijan And Georgia: Playing Russian Roulette With Moscow
Alexandros Petersen and Taleh Ziyadov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4645
Field Reports
Transportation Infrastructure, Price Equalisation And The Spread Of
Coercive State Elements In Northwest Afghanistan
Bobby Anderson
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4646
Kazakhstan Places Accent On Economic Cooperation With Turkey
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4647
The Rose Revolution: An Abkhazian Perspective
George Welton
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4648
Georgian Government Hunts For Gas
Kakha Jibladze
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4649
NEWS DIGEST:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development, economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL./CFP- Central Asian Survey, Special Issue on Colony and Post-Colony
Posted by: Alexis Goodyear <Alexis.Goodyearinforma.com>
Posted: 11 Jan 2007
PUBL./CFP- Central Asian Survey, Special Issue on Colony and Post-Colony
Central Asian Survey
Published by Routledge
Call For Papers
Special Issue: Colony and Post-Colony: The Limits of Historical
Imagination in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Guest editor: Adeeb Khalid
Since the independence of former Soviet republics of Central Asia and
the Caucasus, scholars of the region have had unprecedented access to
new archival material and oral histories. A new generation of scholars
has been grappling with understanding the Soviet legacy in Central
Asia and the Caucasus and the specificities of Soviet modernization
and its effects. These scholars are mapping out a variety of
approaches, some drawing inspiration from post-colonial theory, others
taking broader comparative perspectives to modernization and social
change, but all increasingly sensitive the complex interactions
between local populations and elites of the republics and the Soviet
centre. The aim of this special issue is to bring together
theoretically informed and conceptually self-aware contributions from
scholars working on diverse aspects of Soviet interventions in the
economic, social and cultural life of Central Asia and the Caucasus,
with a view to making the emerging debates and perspectives more
easily accessible to students of the region.
Send your abstracts (500 words maximum) to CASurveysoas.ac.uk by
March 9, 2007. These should include details of your affiliation, main
purpose and data sources of your study and its central conclusions.
We hope to publish the issue in early 2008, and final versions of the
papers selected will be due in September 2007.
Visit: http://www.informaworld.com/CCAS for more information about this journal
PUBL.- Abazov, Rafis. The Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics
Posted by: Rafis Abazov <polra99hotmail.com>
Posted: 11 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Abazov, Rafis. The Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics
PUBL.- Abazov, Rafis. The Culture and Customs of the Central Asian
Republics. Westport, Connecticut and London, Greenwood Press, 2007.
360 pp., Map, 30 illustrations. ISBN: 0-313-33656-3
Modern Central Asian culture represents a rich heritage of the
glorious Persian and Turkic civilizations and the legacy of the mighty
nomadic empires - from the Scythians to the Mongols. Its oriental
bazaars still bear the cultural imprint of the great Silk Road that
ran through the region for nearly for 2,000 years. Present-day
handicrafts and the lifestyle of the last pastoral nomads of the
Eurasian continent are intertwined with ancient customs and traditions
that even now remain unspoiled by mass tourism and globalization.
Famous presently for its huge oil and gas reserves and close proximity
to hot spots in world politics, Central Asia has undergone rapid and
fundamental changes, asserting its independence and its place in the
international arena. Yet, Central Asian culture remains relatively
unknown to the West.
The Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics provides a
concise yet thorough overview of the region. The book is greatly
enriched by Rafis Abazov's insider knowledge of dynamic changes in the
post-independence era. Its complex cultural heritage is shown in its
appalling extremes. Historically, the region was on par with the most
vibrant and advanced civilizations of the Middle East, South Asia and
China. Eventually it fell far behind due to internal turmoil and
savage wars, and was ultimately colonized by the Russian Empire.
Central Asia gave the world some of the most progressive and
influential Muslim scholars and spiritual leaders, such as Avicenna,
Al Farabi, Al Bukhari, Naqhshbandi and many others; yet, at the same
time it harbored some of the most conservative views and customs. Its
distinct architectural landscape coexists with tedious blocks of
modern cheap architecture. Some metropolitan areas are rapidly moving
towards developed countries conditions, where creative writers,
actors, painters and composers find inspiration in indigenous artistic
traditions and experiment with modern forms. In the meantime some
rural areas are falling behind with living conditions comparable with
those in the worst developing countries.
Coverage includes thoughts and religions, folklore, literature, media,
cinema, performing and visual arts, gender and marriage, festival and
social customs. Evocative photos, a map, a chronology, and a glossary
compliment the text; and the selected bibliography (resource guide)
provides a resource for curious readers to conduct further studies.
This is the best source for students and general readers to gain
extensive insight into the "jewel of Eurasia."
Author:
Rafis Abazov is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Harriman
Institute of Columbia University, New York. He is the author of four
books including Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan and Historical
Dictionary of Turkmenistan.
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <shairbekipp.kg>
Posted: 11 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public
Policy, Kyrgyzstan (December 08, 2006-January 08, 2007), appearing on
theInstitute's website:
"Political Parties in Kyrgyzstan: What if Elections Were Held Tomorrow?"
Tamerlan Ibraimov
"Management of Water Resources in Kyrgyzstan"
Roundtable summary
"Kyrgyz Crossword"
Bakyt Beshimov
"The Parliament's dissolution will make the President more vulnerable."
Interview with Muratbek Imanaliev
Expert Discussion on Tripartism
Roundtable summary
Recommendations of the IPP for the Structure of the Government and
Apparatus of the Prime Minister
"The SCO as a Project for a Zone of Mutual Responsibility and Development"
Muratbek Imanaliev
The Institute for Public Policy is pleased to announce one-month long
IPP Visiting Fellowship for political science researchers and analysts
focusing on Kyrgyzstan. For more, click
http://ipp.kg/en/analysis/345-5-12-2006
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL./CFP- Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences, Inaugural Edition, 2007
Posted by: Ken Goff <kenpgoffyahoo.com>
Posted: 4 Jan 2007
PUBL./CFP- Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences, Inaugural Edition, 2007
Call for Papers - Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences
Inaugural Edition, 2007
Deadline for Manuscripts: 30 June 2007
The Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences is a new peer reviewed
interdisciplinary journal devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and
continuing inquiry into the ways in which human communities form and
work together. Papers deal with all aspects of social systems, from
interpersonal to international. The goal is to create a top quality
journal that reflects both a high degree of university scholarship and
a concern for the human person in community.
We accept articles based on congruence with the purpose of the
Journal, importance of the contribution to existing literature,
conceptual and written clarity, and sound methods.
Manuscripts submitted to the Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences may
not be published elsewhere except with written consent of the Journal.
We accept only original papers (not published or accepted for
publication elsewhere). If human subjects are used, include a
statement to indicate institutional Internal Review Board (IRB)
approval of the research.
Instructions for Authors
- Articles are 3,000 to 5,000 words, double-spaced with one-inch margins.
- Send an electronic copy (IBM format MS Word) via e-mail to the editor.
- You may send a disk in IBM format MS Word as a substitute for the e-mail.
- Include all citations in the text. List them alphabetically at the
end of the article in the References section.
- Use APA Publication Manual guidelines. (For assistance, see
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)
- Include contact information for each author (affiliation, address,
telephone, and e-mail address) and a short biographical sketch.
- Include a brief abstract, no longer than 60 words.
- Use English or Georgian with an abstract in each language and in Russian.
- Use 12-point Times New Roman for English versions; 12-point
AcadNusx for Georgian; and 12-point rus_courier for Russian.
- We welcome camera-ready graphics and photographs, PowerPoint files,
and .jpg files.
Send manuscript with a cover letter to:
Ken Goff
Dean of the School of Languages, Georgian University of Social Sciences
77 Kostava Street , V Building
Tbilisi 0175, Georgia (Republic)
Kenpgoffgmail.com
kgoffguss.edu.ge
Web site: www.guss.edu.ge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_University_of_Social_Sciences
PUBL.- Uzbek Islamic Debates Text, Dunwoody Press
Posted by: Cybil Harris <charrismcneiltech.com>
Posted: 4 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Uzbek Islamic Debates Text, Dunwoody Press
Dunwoody Press has just published: Uzbek Islamic Debates: Texts,
Translations, and Commentary by Alan J. Frank, Jahangir Mamatov
The text is divided as follows: Historical Introduction; Part I:
Lectures of the Islamic Reformers, Part II: A Quasi-Official Response
to Christian Missionaries; Part III: Political Polemics and Official
Rebuttal; Part IV: Islamic Philosophical Thought and the Akromism
Controversy; Part V: The Rhetoric of Exile and Insurgency;
Bibliography; and Index.
PUBL.- Ethnic Discrimination & U.S. Refugee Resettlement: Meskhetian Turks
Posted by: Steve Swerdlow <steveswerdlowgmail.com>
Posted: 2 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Ethnic Discrimination & U.S. Refugee Resettlement: Meskhetian Turks
The following article was recently published in the December 2006
issue of the California Law Review (Vol. 94 CALIF. L. REV. No. 6),
available for order through http://www.boalt.org/clr. Also soon to be
available on www.lexisnexis.com and www.westlaw.com or by contacting
steveswerdlowgmail.com
Understanding Post-Soviet Ethnic Discrimination and the Effective Use
of U.S. Refugee Resettlement: The Case of the Meskhetian Turks
Abstract - Executive Summary
Following a mass deportation from Georgia, interethnic pogroms in
Uzbekistan, and ethnic cleansing in Southern Russia, the resettlement
of the Meskhetian Turks to the United States which began in 2004,
represents the successful culmination of a struggle with a Soviet
legacy of exile that denied them human rights, ethnic identity, and
ancestral homeland for over six decades. The choice of this
transnational group for resettlement to the United States also
reflects the renewal and re-shaping of the long-functioning and often
under-utilized, U.S. refugee admissions program in the wake of its
near shutdown after September 11, 2001. At the intersection of human
rights law, refugee policy, and area studies, this article focuses on
the odyssey of the Meskhetian Turks to understand both the current
state of minority rights in post-Soviet space and the potentials of
U.S. refugee resettlement as a tool for their protection.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Russia, Georgia, and the United
States between 2000 and 2005, and over 100 interviews conducted by the
author in the Meskhetian community, the article endorses the
proposition that an understanding of the case of the Meskhetian Turks
provides valuable insights for protecting minority rights in
post-Soviet space and effectively using the U.S. refugee admissions
program. As an organizing principle, this study examines the human
rights dilemma and Meskhetian Turk resettlement program through the
lens of the three classic "durable solutions" available to
refugees-integration, repatriation, and third-country resettlement
-developed y the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Viewing the experience of the Meskhetian Turks against the search for
these durable solutions allows for a structured evaluation of the
decision to resettle them in the United States and provides a
framework for determining the eligibility of future refugee groups. In
a post-9/11 context, the case of the Meskhetian Turks serves as a
strong illustration that the United States should expeditiously use
the remedy of resettlement for those groups at the greatest risk of
harm. Specifically, the dire circumstances for ethnic minorities in
post-Soviet space and the successful experience of newly resettled
Meskhetian Turks in the United States should be cause to extend
refugee eligibility to those ethnic groups similarly situated in the region.
Part I introduces the transnational identity of the Meskhetian Turks,
an ethnic group virtually non-existent in America before 2004. Turning
to a discussion of the forced statelessness endured by the Meskhetian
Turks in Russia's Krasnodar region, Part II discusses the failure of
integration as a durable solution. Part III demonstrates the
shortfalls of relying on the post-Soviet republic of Georgia to
facilitate repatriation of the Meskhetian Turks to their homeland,
which lies in the southern region of the country. The issue of
Meskhetian Turks' right of voluntary return illustrates how Georgia's
unwillingness to comply with its international obligations further
intensifies the dire situation of the Meskhetian Turks in Krasnodar.
Part IV endorses the solution of third-country resettlement and
explores the core factors that led to the opening of a special refugee
program for Meskhetian Turks in 2004, including the effort to
revitalize U.S. refugee admissions in a post September 11th world.
Based on the author's conversations with newly resettled Meskhetian
Turks in the United States during 2004-2005, Part IV argues that
resettlement to the United States is the most viable durable solution
for this long-suffering population and a successful example of the
U.S. refugee program. However, unless the U.S. government and
international community combine the refugee program with a robust
human rights policy aimed at the Krasnodar region, resettlement will
be at best an incomplete response for dealing with the legacy of
xenophobia at the heart of the Meskhetian Turk crisis. In the short
run, to avoid creating a damaging precedent, the United States must
insist that Russia live up to its human rights obligations by granting
citizenship to stateless persons and cracking down on Cossacks. In
the long run, it must support the efforts of local NGOs to fight
racism and xenophobia with education, human rights monitoring, and
legal support.
In the meantime, those Meskhetian Turks who make the United States
their new home are a living testament to the U.S. refugee resettlement
program's potential to provide hope, brighter futures, and better
lives. Especially in post-9/11 context, it is crucially important to
call attention to the case of the Meskhetian Turks as an example of
U.S. support for a persecuted minority as well as a Muslim population.
Continuing to promote durable solutions and utilize resettlement for
groups such as the Meskhetian Turks will help ensure the United States
remains a leader in humanitarian affairs and human rights.
PUBL.- "Early Warning for Violence Prevention in KG" Bulletin Information
Posted by: Kristel Maasen <kristel.maasengmail.com>
Posted: 2 Jan 2007
PUBL.- "Early Warning for Violence Prevention in KG" Bulletin Information
Bulletin - Weekly bulletin on conflicts and violence prevention in Kyrgyzstan
The "Early warning for violence prevention" project of the Kyrgyz NGO
Foundation for Tolerance International issues a Weekly Bulletin that
contains analytical information about tensions and conflict with
potential for violence in Kyrgyzstan, gathered by a nation-wide
network of monitors. The bulletin also includes practical
recommendations to conflicting sides and other stakeholders on
non-violent problem resolution strategies. Further, it provides
information on successful cases of conflict resolution by
organizations and individuals.
The information provided in the Bulletin targets government agencies,
public figures and organizations committed to peaceful intervention
into a conflict situation with the aim to transform or resolve it. By
disseminating the Bulletin, the Early Warning Center attempts to
supply information that enables stakeholders to timely undertake
needed actions on conflict prevention/resolution. The bulletin is also
used by researchers and international organizations working in Kyrgyzstan.
Interested persons may freely subscribe by sending an email with
language preference (English, Russian, Kyrgyz) to ewvp-listjet.kg.
Below you can find titles of analyses published earlier. Previously
issued bulletins are available on www.fti.org.kg.
With best regards,
Early Warning Center
Foundation for Tolerance International
Email: ewvp-ftijet.kg
Samples of analyses published between October 25 and December 19
1. Weekly review (all issues)
2. Review of the main conflict events during the period from May 23
until October 24 (issue no. 43)
3. Planned action on November 2 by the movement "For reforms" from the
perspective of risk for violence (issue no.43, 44)
4. Regional factors of the criminal situation in Kyrgyzstan (issue no. 44)
5. Conflict between the opposition and state authorities from the
point of view of prevention of escalation and violence (issue no. 45, 46)
6. Potential for violence in the conflict between the "For Reforms"
movement and the tandem of president K.Bakiev and prime-minister F.Kulov
7. Rivalry between Uzbek national and cultural centres in Jalalabat
oblast on the issue of giving official status to the Uzbek language
(issue no. 46)
8. Interethnic tensions between Arslanbob and Jaiterek villages:
updated information for interveners (issue no. 46, 47, 48)
9. Border tensions regarding Borbalyk checkpoint (Altyaryk rayon,
Uzbekistan) bordering with Kadamjay rayon (Kyrgyzstan)
10. Measures on resolution of the conflict between bean producers and
buyers in Talas oblast (issue no. 47, 49)
11. Decision on construction of the by-pass road around Sokh enclave
of Uzbekistan (issue no. 49)
12. Border checkpoints of Batken oblast (Kyrgyzstan), Sogd oblast
(Tajikistan) and Fergana oblast (Uzbekistan) (issue no. 50)
13. Project information (all issues)
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 13 December 2006, is online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 2 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 13 December 2006, is online
Highlights: This Analyst issue features Regine Spector on
anti-revolutionary toolkit and lessons learned by the Bakiev
government to prevent a new revolution in Kyrgyzstan; Devdariani &
Hancilova on reactions across the South Caucasus to renewed Russian
pressures; Cohen & Irwing on the missing U.S. Black Sea Strategy; and
Haoutiun Khachatrian on Russia's economic leverage in
Armenia.
In Field Reports, articles on the controversy of the Highly Indebted
Poor Countries Initiative in Kyrgyzstan; Karzai's despair at the
growing troubles in Afghanistan; burgeoning Kazakhstan-NATO relations;
and the parallel elections in Georgia's breakaway territory of South Ossetia.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"The Wider Black Sea Region: An Emerging Hub In European Security"
By Svante Cornell, Anna Jonsson, Niklas Nilsson, and Per Häggström, 120 pages.
Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0612Blacksea_P.pdf
"The North Korean Nuclear Test And Its Implications"
By Liu Lin, 40 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/2006/LiuLin%20F
inal061204.pdf
"The Politicization Of Islam In Azerbaijan"
By Svante E. Cornell, 75 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610Azer.pdf
The 13 December issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 8,
no. 24) is now online at http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version
of the entire issue of the 1 November CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20061213Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
The Anti-Revolutionary Toolkit
Regine A. Spector
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4634
Russia's Strong-Arm Policies Prompt Reaction In South Caucasus And
Sway Brussels Opinion
Jaba Devdariani and Blanka Hancilova
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4635
Needed: A U.S. Black Sea Strategy
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., and Conway Irwin
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4636
Russian Investments In Armenia: Economic Background And Political Impact
Haroutiun Khachatrian
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4637
Field Reports
Prospective Joining Of Hipc Provokes Fierce Debates In Kyrgyzstan
Erica Marat
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4638
Message Behind Karzai's Breaking Voice And Tearful Eyes
Muhammad Tahir
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4639
Kazakh Ministry Experts Give Cautious Welcome To Nato
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4640
Dueling Banjos: Parallel Elections And Parallel Presidents In South Ossetia
Kakha Jibladze
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4641
News Digest:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development, economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL.- Author Marianne Kamp Discusses Her Book on Uzbek Women on Jan. 11
Posted by: Marianne R Kamp <MKampuwyo.edu>
Posted: 2 Jan 2007
PUBL.- Author Marianne Kamp Discusses Her Book on Uzbek Women on Jan. 11
Author Marianne Kamp Discusses Her Book on Uzbek Women on Jan. 11
Author Marianne Kamp will explore the lives of Uzbek women before and
after the Russian Revolution of 1917 in a lecture next month at the
Library of Congress.
Kamp will talk about her new book, "The New Woman in Uzbekistan:
Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism," at noon on Thursday,
Jan. 11, in Room 119 in the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St.
S.E., Washington D.C.
The event, sponsored by the Library's John W. Kluge Center, is free
and open to the public; no reservations are required.
In her book, Kamp draws on oral histories and writings to reexamine
the Soviet Hujum, the 1927 campaign in Soviet Central Asia to
encourage mass unveiling as a path to social and intellectual
liberation. Her examination of changing Uzbek ideas about women in the
early 20th century reveals the complexities of a volatile time: why
some Uzbek women chose to unveil, why many were forcibly unveiled, why
a campaign for unveiling triggered massive violence against women, and
how the national memory of this pivotal event remains contested today.
Kamp is assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming in
Laramie and a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
Through a generous endowment from John W. Kluge, the Library of
Congress established the Kluge Center in 2000 to bring together the
world's best thinkers to stimulate, energize and distill wisdom from
the Library's rich resources and to interact with policy-makers in
Washington. For further information on the Kluge Center, visit
www.loc.gov/kluge.
PUBL.- The China and Eurasia Forum (CEF) Quarterly, November 2006
Posted by: Nicklas Norling <nnorlingsilkroadstudies.org>
Posted: 2 Jan 2007
PUBL.- The China and Eurasia Forum (CEF) Quarterly, November 2006
The November 2006 issue of the CEF Quarterly is online at:
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/CEF_quarterly.htm
The PDF version of the entire issue is available at:
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006.pdf
The CEF Quarterly is published by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
& Silk Road Studies Program (Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)/Uppsala
University) and is devoted to analysis of the current issues facing
China and Eurasia. Focusing primarily on Sino-Central Asian,
Sino-Russian, and Sino-Caucasian relations, the aim of the CEF
Quarterly is to foster discussion and information sharing between a
geographically distant community that recognizes the significance of
China's emergence in this important part of the world.
Full contents:
1. Kazakhstan and the United States in a Changed World, p.7
Evan A. Feigenbaum
Evan A. Feigenbaum is U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
South and Central Asian Affairs
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Feigenbaum.pdf
2. The Logic Behind Sino-Iranian Cooperation, p.15
Ilan Berman
Ilan Berman is Vice President for Policy at the American Foreign
Policy Council in Washington, DC
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Berman.pdf
3. NATO Battles the Taliban and Tests Its Future in Afghanistan, p.15
Julianne Smith
Julianne Smith is Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at CSIS's
International Security Program
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Smith.pdf
4. Russia's Energy Leverage over China and the Sinopec-Rosneft Deal, p.31
Nicklas Norling
Nicklas Norling is Assistant Editor of the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Norling.pdf
5. Kyrgyzstan's Unfinished Revolution, p.39
Alisher Khamidov
Alisher Khamidov is PhD Candidate at the School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, United States.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Khamidov.pdf
6. Pakistan's Kashmir Policy, p.45
Lt. Gen. Talat Masood
Lt. General Talat Masood served in the Pakistani Army for 39 years,
retiring in 1990 as Secretary for Defence Production in the Ministry
of Defence.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Masood.pdf
7. Pakistan and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, p.51
Rizwan Zeb
Rizwan Zeb is Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor in Politics at the
Institute for Advanced Studies and Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow at
the Governance Research Center, Department of Politics, University of
Bristol, UK.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Zeb.pdf
8. Central Asia and China's Energy Security, p.61
Xuanli Liao
Xuanli Liao is Lecturer in International Relations and Energy Security
at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy (CEPMLP),
University of Dundee, Scotland.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Liao.pdf
9. Recreating the Silk Road: The Challenge of Overcoming Transaction
Costs, p.71
Alan Lee Boyer
Alan Lee Boyer is a Military Professor at the U.S. Naval War College
in Newport, RI, in the U.S.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Boyer.pdf
10. The Ecology of Strategic Interests: China's Quest for Energy
Security from the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea to the Caspian
Sea Basin, p.97
Tarique Niazi
Tarique Niazi teaches Environmental Sociology at the University of
Wisconsin, Eau Claire, U.S..
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Niazi.pdf
11. The Energy Security in Central Eurasia: the Geopolitical
Implications to China's Energy Strategy, p.117
Guo Xuetang
Guo Xuetang is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the
Institute of International Politics at Tongji University, China.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Guo.pdf
12. China's Central Asia Policy in Recent Times, p.139
Ramakant Dwivedi
Ramakant Dwivedi is Associate Fellow at Institute for Defence Studies
and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Dwivedi.pdf
13. Politico-military Developments in Central Asia and Emerging
Strategic Equations, p.161
Vinod Anand
Brig. (retd) Vinod Anand is a Senior Fellow with the United Service
Institute of India-Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/November_2006/Anand.pdf
The journal and individual articles can also be downloaded from our webpage:
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/CEF_quarterly.htm
Subscription inquiries and requests for hard copies should be
addressed to: The China and Eurasia Forum, The Central Asia-Caucasus
Institute, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036, United States or
The China and Eurasia Forum, The Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala
University, Box 514, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail:
nnorlingsilkroadstudies.org or call +46 - 18 - 471 71 16.
PUBL.- JAIS vol. 6 (2005-6)
Posted by: Joseph N. Bell <joseph.bellmsk.uib.no>
Posted: 18 Dec 2006
PUBL.- JAIS vol. 6 (2005-6)
The following two articles have been posted in JAIS vol. 6 (2005-6):
<http://www.uib.no/jais/v006/ali1PP.pdf>Samer Mahdy Ali.
<http://www.uib.no/jais/v006/ali1PP.pdf>Singing Samarra (861-956):
Poetry and the Burgeoning of Historiography upon the Death of
al-Mutawakkil.(Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF file, 215 kB, pp. 1-23).
<http://www.uib.no/jais/v006ht/06-001-023Ali1PP.htm>HTML Unicode version.
Abstract: Historiography on the patricide/regicide of the Caliph
al-Mutawakkil (d. 861) developed from a stage of simple description to
a burgeoning of mytho-historical narrative. It would appear that what
began as a palace scandal-profaning to a putatively sacral community
already torn by civil war-developed into a redemptive tragedy with
perennial appeal. In a patronage society governed by loyalty to one's
patron or father, this transformation should count as nothing less
than conspicuous. This article examines the role of a major Abbasid
poet, al-Bu tur (d. 897), in shaping public perception by cultivating
genuine sympathy for the Abbasids and planting the seeds of questions
that would be addressed in historical narratives. In particular, I
discuss the importance of literary salons or gatherings as a social
institution where poetry and historical narratives were recited orally
as a means of transmitting knowledge to future generations. These
gatherings provide a likely forum where mythic questions of poetry
could inspire narrative.
<http://www.uib.no/jais/v006/barLev1PP.pdf>Zev
bar-Lev.<http://www.uib.no/jais/v006/barLev1PP.pdf> Arabic Key
Consonants. (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF file, 328 kB, pp. 24-63).
<http://www.uib.no/jais/v006ht/06-024-063barLev1.htm>HTML Unicode
version to be posted later.
Abstract: This article outlines an approach to lexicon in Arabic
linguistics, with special implications for teaching Arabic as a
foreign language. Its basic insight is that individual initial
consonants have their own meanings. On a theoretical level, this
key-consonant system offers a pervasive theoretical insight about the
structure of a lexicon, and the nature of lexical acquisition; and on
a practical level, it offers a powerful key to learning vocabulary
L2-which in turn may offer the best possible validation of the
theoretical claim. It is here related to insights in linguistic theory
on the submorpheme (and analogical modeling); in L2 learning, such
submorphemes can help make learning of vocabulary easier, and
sometimes even make it possible to guess the meanings of new roots in
context. An additional implication for the history of Semitic
linguistics is also drawn, proposing to bring back into Semitic
linguistics a set of insights that had been "banished" from the
mainstream with the advent of "scientific" Semitic grammar over a
thousand years ago. On the other hand, we will draw a sharp
distinction between the proposal and biconsonantal root theory, with
which it might be confused on first impression.
PUBL.- JAIS last article, v. 5 (2003-4)
Posted by: Joseph N. Bell <joseph.bellmsk.uib.no>
Posted: 18 Dec 2006
PUBL.- JAIS last article, v. 5 (2003-4)
The final article of JAIS v. 5 (2003-4) has been posted:
<http://www.uib.no/jais/v005/Bashir1PP.pdf>Hassan
Bashir.<http://www.uib.no/jais/v005/Bashir1PP.pdf>
Iran and Political Modernisation in the Nineteenth Century:
Parliamentarianism, Constitutionalism and Feminism in the Newspaper
Sur-i Israfil (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF file, 355 kB, pp. 124-147). HTML
version to be posted later. Abstract: The Constitutional Revolution in
Iran (1906-11) was of momentous significance for the evolution of
various social and political concepts that were mainly rooted in
Western ideologies. During the period of this revolution the face of
Iran was changed. The flourishing of free and autonomous newspapers
was one of the main features of the period. The contribution of these
newspapers to the social and political development of Iran and the
modernisation of the realm was more obvious than that of other factors
that were changing the traditional society of the country at the
beginning of the twentieth century. Sur-i Israfil, the most
influential and independent newspaper of the time, played an essential
part in the process of modernisation. This article attempts to examine
the role of the newspaper by analysing relevant texts published in it
during the period and identifying the elements they mediated that were
important to the process of change.
PUBL.- Bulletin of the Asia Institute 16 (December, 2006)
Posted by: Carol Bromberg <bai34comcast.net>
Posted: 18 Dec 2006
PUBL.- Bulletin of the Asia Institute 16 (December, 2006)
Bulletin of the Asia Institute 16 (December, 2006)
Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani
The Shah-Name Echoes in Sikh Poetry and the Origins of the Nihangs Name
David Frendo
Cassius Dio and Herodian on the First Sasanian Offensive against the
Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire (229-232)
Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani
The Iranian Painter, the Metaphorical Hermitage, and the Christian Princess
Martin Schwartz
How Zarathushtra Generated the Gathic Corpus: Inner-textual and
Intertextual Composition
Mark B. Garrison
The Late Neo-Elamite Glyptic Style: A Perspective from Fars
D. T. Potts
An Ass for Ares
Henri-Paul Francfort
Images du combat contre le sanglier en Asie centrale (3-me au 1er
millenaire av. J.-C.)
Jason Neelis
La Vieille Route Reconsidered: Alternative Paths for Early
Transmission of Buddhism Beyond the Borderlands of South Asia
Robert L. Brown
The Feminization of the Sarnath Gupta-Period Buddha Images
Guitty Azarpay et al.
Analysis of Writing Materials in Middle Persian Documents
Reviews
Sims-Williams, ed., Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples (Skjaervo)
Haerinck and Overlaet, Luristan Excavation Documents, Vol. 5, The Iron
Age III Graveyard at War Kabud Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan (Muscarella)
Frye, Greater Iran: A 20th-Century Odyssey (Choksy)
Schorta, ed., Central Asian Textiles and Their Contexts in the Early
Middle Age., Riggisberger Berichte 9 (Bromberg)
Briant and Boucharlat, L archeologie de l empire achemenide: Nouvelles
recherches. Actes du colloque organise au College de France par le
Reseau international d'etudes et de recherches achemenides (GDR 2538
CNRS), 21-22 novembre 2003 (Dusinberre)
Orders: Contact the Editor, Carol Bromberg: bai34comcast.net or bai34aol.com.
PUBL.- Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism
Posted by: Lolita Guevarra <l_guevarraucpress.edu>
Posted: 18 Dec 2006
PUBL.- Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism
The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Adeeb Khalid is Associate Professor of History at Carleton College.
He is the author of _The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism
in Central Asia _(UC Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/Khalid
"I know of no competing work that comes close to covering this
material. Khalid's nuanced and sophisticated analysis offers superior
treatment of the diversity of Muslim societies and the history of
Islamic thought in Central Asia. America is heavily involved in this
region, and this book is a powerful reminder of the possible costs of
unthinking U.S. support of current regimes-it should be required
reading for American politicians and concerned citizens."-Carl Ernst,
author of _Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World.
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 Islam that destroyed
patterns of Islamic learning and thoroughly de-Islamized public life,
Khalid demonstrates that Islam became synonymous with tradition and
was subordinated to powerful ethnonational identities that
crystallized during the Soviet period. He shows how this legacy
endures today and how, for the vast majority of the population, a
return to Islam means the recovery of traditions destroyed under Communism.
Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Khalid
PUBL.- Ab Imperio, Chorus of Nations: Constructing and Describing Group Unity
Posted by: Sergey Glebov <sglebovsmith.edu>
Posted: 8 Dec 2006
PUBL.- Ab Imperio, Chorus of Nations: Constructing & Describing Group Unity
Ab Imperio 3/2006 The Chorus of Nations: Constructing and Describing
Group Unity (11/2006)
Methodology and Theory
Editors
Searching for a Mode of Description of the Community of Solidarity
of Civic Action and Collective Loyalty (Eng/Rus)
Serhy Yekelchyk
The Body and National Myth: Motifs from the Ukrainian National
Revival in the Nineteenth Century (Rus)
Serhy Yekelchyk
On Transcontinental Travel and Postcolonial Imagination: A Look
Back from 2006 on "The Body and National Myth" (Eng)
Peter van der Veer
The Visceral and the Secular (Eng)
History
Irina Paert
"Two or Twenty Million?" The Languages of Official Statistics and
Religious Dissent in Imperial Russia (Eng)
Paul Werth
The Head of Church, A Subject of the Emperor: The Armenian
Catholicos at the Junction of the Internal and Foreign Politics of
Empire, 1828-1914 (Rus)
Sergei Zhuk
"A Separate Nation" of "Those Who Imitate Germans": Ukrainian
Evangelical Peasants and Problems of Cultural Identification in the
Ukrainian Provinces of Late Imperial Russia (Eng)
Constantine Bolenko
"Russian Grandee, European Grand Seigneur, and Tatar Prince" N. B.
Iusupov: On the Question of Self-Orientalization of Russian Nobility
in the Last Third of the Eighteenth - First Third of the Nineteenth
Century(Rus)
Chia Yin Hsu
A Tale of Two Railroads: "Yellow Labor," Agrarian Colonization,
and the Making of Russianness at the Far Eastern Frontier, 1890s-1910s (Eng)
Archive
Diliara Usmanova
"Vaisov God's Regiment of Muslim Old Believers": Languages of
Confessional, Estate, Political, and National Resistance in Russian
Empire (Rus)
Documents
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Mikhail Sokolov
The New Right Intellectuals in Russia: Strategies of Legitimization (Rus)
Ekaterina Panova
Students "Our" and "Alien": The Views of St. Petersburg Teachers
on Ethnic Diversity and the Limits of Russianness (Rus)
Oksana Morgunova
Europeans, not Westerners: How the Dilemma "Russia vs. the West"
is Represented in Russian Language Open Access Migrants' Forums
(United Kingdom) (Eng)
Raisa Akif'eva, Anna Tolkacheva
National and Regional Identity in the Discourse of St. Petersburg
Official Press (Rus)
Newest Mythologies
Olga Khristoforova
"Children of Nature", or the Ethnic Projects of Regional
Television Stations (Rus)
Book Reviews
Andre Liebich
Alexei Miller, Alfred J. Rieber (Eds.), Imperial Rule (Budapest:
Central European University Press, 2004). 212 pp. Index. ISBN: 963-9241-98-9.
Paul du Quenoy
John P. LeDonne, The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire,
1650-1831 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 261
pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-516100-9.
Andrew Gentes
Alexander Cooley, Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of
Empires, States, and Military Occupations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2005). 208 pp. Notes, Figures, Tables, Index. Index.
ISBN: 0-8014-4386-5.
Maria Krisan'
Andrzej Nowak (Red.), Rosja i Europa Wschodnia: "imperiologia"
stosowana / Russia and Eastern Europe: Applied "Imperiology" (Kraków:
Wydawnictwo Arcana, Instytut Historii PAN w Warszawie, 2006). 528 s.
ISBN: 83-89243-58-X.
Marina Loskutova
Cynthia Simmons, Nina Perlina (Eds.), Writing the Siege of
Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose
(Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002). 288 pp., 14
ill. Index. ISBN: 0-8229-4183-X (hardback edition).
Marianna Mouravieva
NESTOR: Ezhekvartal'nyi ezhednevnyi zhurnal istorii I kul'tury
Rossii I Vostochnoi lokade leningrada v Rossii I za rubezhom.
Istochniki, issledovaniia, istoriografiia / Ed. I. V. Lukoianov, issue
ed. A. R. Dzeniskevich.
Igor Martyniuk
Michael Kellogg, The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and
the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005). xiii+327 pp. (=New Studies in European
History). Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-84512-2
Svetlana Smirnova
Daniele Conversi (Ed.), Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary
World: Walker Connor and the Study of Nationalism (London: Routledge,
2004). 302 pp. ISBN: 0-415-26373-7 (paperback edition).
Theodor Weeks
Ricarda Vulpius, Nationalisierung der Religion.
Russifizierungspolitik und ukrainische Nationsbildung, 1860-1920
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005). 475 pp. (=Forschungen zur
osteuropäischen Geschichte, Bd. 64). Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 3
Aleksei Miller
Frank Grelka, Die Ukrainische Nationalbewegung unter deutscher
Besatzungsherrschaft 1918 und 1941/42 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,
2005); Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
(Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of Nor
Nadieszda Kizenko
Nikolai Mitrokhin. Russkaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov': Sovremennoe
sostoianie I problemy. Moscow: NLO, 2004. 647 p. ISBN: 5-86793-324-5.
Serhy Yekelchyk
Evgeny Dobrenko and Eric Naiman (Eds.), The Landscape of
Stalinism: The Art of Ideology of Soviet Space (Seattle, WA:
University of Washington Press, 2003). xviii+315 pp., ill. Notes,
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-295-98333-7 (hardback edition).
Thomas Sanders
A. V. Makushin, P. A. tribunskii. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov: Trudy
i dni (1859 - 1904) / Riazan', 2001. 439 p. ISBN: 5-94473-001-3
Alexander Filiushkin
Giovanna Siedina (Ed.), Mazepa e il suo tempo: Storia, cultura,
società / Mazepa and His Time: History, Culture, Society (Alessandria:
Edizioni dell'Orso). 2004. 594 pp. (=Slavica. Vol. 6). ISBN: 88-7694-806-6.
Anatol Shmelev
Jamie Bisher, White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian
(London: Routledge, 2005). 452 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7146-5690-9.
Ludmila Novikova
Grazhdanskaia voina na vostoke Rossii: Problemy istorii:
Bakhrushinskie chteniia 2001 g. / Ed. By V. I. Shishkin. Novosibirsk:
NGU, 2001. 178 p. ISBN: 5-94356-037-8.
Maksim Kirchanov
Leonidas Donskis, Loyalty, Dissent and Betrayal: Modern Lithuania
and East-Central European Imagination (Amsterdam: "Rodopi," 2005). 164
pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 90-420-1727-9.
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <shairbekgmail.com>
Posted: 6 Dec 2006
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public
Policy, Kyrgyzstan (November 24-December 05), appearing on the
Institute's website:
"The "Carrot and Stick" Policy of the HIPC"
Sheradil Baktygulov
"Who Governs the Marketplace? The Politics of Bazaars in Kyrgyzstan"
Regine A. Spector
"Control over water resources is a key element of the future power of
Kyrgyzstan"
Interview with Bazarbai Mambetov
"The Policy of Kyrgyzstan towards NATO: Effective Partnership or
Half-Hearted Friendship?"
Joomart Ormonbekov
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL./CFP- Inner Asia
Posted by: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <oushakinPrinceton.EDU>
Posted: 1 Dec 2006
PUBL./CFP- Inner Asia
Inner Asia is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal, with emphasis
on the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies. It is
committed to supporting publication of original research at the
highest academic standards. Articles of several kinds are welcomed:
those introducing new materials, those engaging with issues of
current debate, those with a critical or theoretical focus, shorter
pieces of an ethnographic kind, and book reviews. We welcome
submissions from scholars of all countries and especially those whose
own background lies in Inner Asia. Subject of particular interest to
the journal are: cultural change, the rise of political and economic
nationalism, indigenous critiques of colonial paradigms, the
introduction of markets and changing concepts of property, the
re-emergence of religions, the negotiation of ethnicity and identity,
urbanisation and social geography, history of thoughts and current
intellectual debates, changes in languages and epistemology,
environmental adaptations and conservation, and history and
historiography in the socialist and post-socialist periods.
Contributors should bear in mind the following points when planning
an article for Inner Asia.
Originality
In general, Inner Asia does not accept material that is published
elsewhere, even if in different form, or material that has been
submitted for publication elsewhere. If in doubt, please consult the Editors.
Length
One solid page of text in Inner Asia is currently about 500 words. An
ideal average length for an article in Inner Asia is 5000 words, the
maximum length for a longer article is about 10,000 words (including
captions, notes and references). There is no minimum size The
Editors insist that contributions take into account the
multi-disciplinary readership (many of them not native speakers of
English). Please avoid technical or trendy jargon, and excessive
wordiness, which often exclude the reader.
Please follow the general layout of Inner Asia papers
heading
author
affiliation
abstract
keywords
main text
notes
references
Style
English spelling conventions are used where possible. The Harvard
System should be used for text referencing, with as few repeats as
possible, quoting page numbers where possible: e.g. 'Smith (1990:
122-3) says this
...' Bibliographies should be as short as possible, include no more
than all references cited in the text.
Referees
All contributions are sent to at least two referees.
Procedure for submissions.
Contributors should submit the paper in three paper copies (or via
e-mail, usually as an attachment (but a hard copy will be required if
there are unusual characters or electronically generated figures),
including figures and tables for consideration and refereeing.. If
accepted, the Editors may ask for changes, and you are then asked to
submit a final, corrected hard copy, plus artwork, together with an
electronic version either on disc (marked clearly with name and
format or by e-mail attachment). Please always keep a copy of the
most up-to-date version yourself. Send papers as a double spaced
word document with all figures as separate files as tiff, eps or jpg.
- Provide captions for all figures
- Tables to be as simple as possible using tabs rather than columns.
- Provide a full list of captions
- Notes should be endnotes
- Indent paragraphs - no extra space between
- Use single quotation marks
- Indent quotations over 50 words as a separate paragraph
Illustrations
Please provide finished illustrations, and obtain permission to use
them (and provide acknowledgement in the caption). Number all
illustrations, in a single series, called FIGURES. Please leave
captions off the artwork, and send them as part of your text for
typesetting. Send the illustration files by e-mail or on a floppy
disc with notice of the program used, together with a print-out so we
can see how the illustrations ought to look. If submitting
illustrations as hard copy, please send line figures either in
full-size for us to reduce, or as sharp bromide prints already
reduced,; send photographs as good-sized prints or as 35 mm (or
larger) transparencies.
Copyright & offprints
Contributors are expected to assign copyright to the publisher,
Global Oriental; though they remain free to use material in
subsequent publications written or edited by themselves provided
INNER ASIA is acknowledged as the original place of publication.
Please send all correspondence to:
Inner Asia
c/o Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit
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Electronic submissions to:
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PUBL./CFP- Borat: Eurasia, American Culture, and Slavic Studies
Posted by: Slavic Review <slavic-reviewad.uiuc.edu>
Posted: 1 Dec 2006
PUBL./CFP- Borat: Eurasia, American Culture, and Slavic Studies
Call for Papers:
Few recent works of literature or film have made Eurasia as central
and, perhaps, as flagrantly irrelevant to the American experience as
Sacha Baron Cohen's hit film, Borat. In many respects this movie
touches on key aspects of our discipline and expertise, and it also
marks the distance that "Eurasia" has traveled in the American
mentality since the appearance of other epoch-defining films (From
Russia With Love, Doctor Zhivago, The Manchurian Candidate). Slavic
Review invites its readers to submit contributions for a cluster of
scholarly essays on Borat. Contributions may use the methodologies of
any discipline so long as they relate in some substantial way to Borat
and to interaction between Eurasia and the West. Length should not
exceed 5000 words. Contributions will be peer reviewed and must be
received by the end of March 2007. If you have questions, please
contact the editor, Mark Steinberg, at slavrevuiuc.edu.
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 29 November 2006, is Online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 30 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 29 November 2006, is Online
Highlights: This Analyst issue starts off with an article by Ryan
Kennedy on Kazakhstan's U-Turn regarding Borat the comedian; Kevin
Leahy on complications in Kadyrov's regional role in the North
Caucasus; Alman Mir-Ismail on the boomeranging effect of the closure
of Azerbaijan's ANS channel; and Richard Weitz on the Central Asian
Nuclear Weapons Free Zone after Kim's bomb. In Field
Reports, articles on a new bridge connecting the divided Pamirs;
Georgia's attempts to diversify gas supplies; Kyrgyz-Uzbek friendship;
and NATO in Afghanistan.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"The Politicization Of Islam In Azerbaijan"
By Svante E. Cornell, 75 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610Azer.pdf
"The State-Crime Nexus In Central Asia: State Weakness, Organized
Crime And Corruption In Kyrgyzstan And Tajikistan"
By Erica Marat, 138 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610EMarat.pdf
"Minorities And The State In The South Caucasus: Assessing The
Protection Of National Minorities In Georgia And Azerbaijan"
By Johanna Popjanevski, 85pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0609Popjanevski.pdf
The 29 November issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 8,
no. 23) is now online at http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version
of the entire issue of the 29 November CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20061129Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
Analytical Articles:
Kazakhstan Learns To Love Borat
Ryan Kennedy
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4596
Kadyrov As Russia's Regional Gendarme: A Boon For Chechnya's Rebel Movement?
Kevin Daniel Leahy
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4597
The Boomerang Effect Of Ans Tv's Closure
Alman Mir Ismail
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4598
The Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone After KOREA
Richard Weitz
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4599
Field Reports
A New Bridge On Panj River Connecting Tajikistan And Afghanistan
Sultanbek Aksakolov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4600
Georgia Plans For Alternate Gas Supplies To Escape Gazprom's Price Hike
Kakha Jibladze
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4601
New Winds Of Friendship Between Bishkek And Tashkent
Joldosh Osmonov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4602
NATO's Unfamiliar Role, Afghanistan's Familiar Situation
Simon Roughneen
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4603
News Digest:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development, economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL.- UNODC's Drug Abuse in Central Asia Repor
Posted by: Kamran Niaz <Kamran.NIAZunodc.org>
Posted: 27 Nov 2006
PUBL.- UNODC's Drug Abuse in Central Asia Reports
UNODC/Regional Office for Central Asia recently issued its report on
"Drug Abuse in Central Asia - Trends in Treatment Demand 2003 - 2005"
(link below). This report essentially presents analysis of the
information on the socio-demographic profile, patterns and trends of
drug abuse, injecting risk behaviours and prevalence of HIV and HCV
among drug users treated in the drug treatment facilities reporting
this information from selected cities in Kazakhstan (Pavlodar),
Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek and Osh), Tajikistan (Dushanbe and Kurgantube) and
Uzbekistan (Tashkent). The report also recommends steps for future
action to improve treatment demand as one of the indicators of drug
abuse as well as to improve the service delivery of drug treatment
programmes in the region.
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/uzbekistan/TDI_Trends_CA.pdf (English version)
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/uzbekistan/TDI_Trends_CA_Rus.pdf (Russian)
PUBL.- Next Steps in Forging a Euroatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea
Posted by: Farid Guliyev <fareedazyahoo.com>
Posted: 27 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Next Steps in Forging a Euroatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea
Next Steps in Forging a Euroatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea
Ronald D. Asmus
11/20/2006
In advance of the Riga conference "Transforming NATO in a New Global
Era," the German Marshall Fund, together with its co-hosts the Latvian
Atlantic Treaty Organization (LATO) and the Commission of Strategic
Analysis, GMF is using this opportunity to launch the book Next Steps
in Forging a Euroatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea:
http://www.gmfus.org/doc/BSBook.pdf
Next Steps in Forging a Euroatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea,
edited by Ronald Asmus with a forward by Javier Solana, attempts to
outline what and presents concrete ideas of what a content of a more
ambitious and forward leaning strategy for the Black Sea could and
should look like strategy could and should be. The book consists of
contributions from a number of expert authors from the United States,
European Union and the region.
PUBL.- New Journal: Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
Posted by: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <oushakinPrinceton.EDU>
Posted: 27 Nov 2006
PUBL.- New Journal: Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17503132
Use the following address for all correspondence: SRSCintellectbooks.com
Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (SRSC) is a refereed journal that
will be launched in 2007, with issue 1 to be published in November
2006 as a free sample copy. The journal will thereafter appear three
times per year.
Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema is devoted to Russian Cinema -
pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet; to its aesthetic
development, and to its role between ideology and industry.
Editor
Birgit Beumers University of Bristol, UK
Co-editors:
Nancy Condee, Vladimir Padunov
Editorial Board
Tony Anemone (William & Mary), Richard Stites (Washington DC), Naum
Kleiman (Moscow), Vance Kepley (Wisconsin), Emma Widdis (Cambridge),
David MacFadyen (California), Josephine Woll (Washington), Evgenii
Margolit (Moscow), Denise Youngblood (Vermont), Natalia Nousinova (Moscow).
Advisory Board
Francois Albera (U of Lausanne), Katerina Clark (U of Yale), Julian
Graffy (UCL London), Hans Guenther (U of Bielefeld), Anna Lawton
(Georgetown U, Washington), Maya Turovskaya (Moscow-Munich).
Call for Submissions
SRSC invites contributions that constitute original research. The
journal seeks to promote research from experienced and established
researchers as well as to encourage researchers new to the field.
SRSC aims to publish:
- articles on the history of Russian cinema (pre-revolutionary,
Soviet, and post-Soviet)
- articles examining aspects of cultural production
- articles on individual actors, directors, and producers
- articles on specific films
- articles exploring the Western reception of Russian cinema
- translations of archival documents on Russian cinema
- analyses of archival materials
- book reviews of publications on Russian cinema
Submission Details
Articles should be between 5,000-6,000 words long, but in exceptional
cases longer pieces of up to 10,000 words will also be considered.
Submissions should be sent by email as attachment in (doc or rtf file)
to the journal's mailbox (SRSCintellectbooks.com), which should also
be used for all correspondence.
PUBL.- Book Discussion, "At the Dawn of the Cold War," Nov. 28, Washington
Posted by: Mark Kramer <mkramerfas.harvard.edu>, Christian Ostermann
Posted: 22 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Book Discussion, "At the Dawn of the Cold War," Nov. 28, Washington
<coldwarwilsoncenter.org>
The Cold War International History Project cordially invites you to a
discussion of the new book:
At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet-American Crisis over Iranian
Azerbaijan, 1941-1946 (Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)
Tuesday, 28 November 2006 (4:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m.)
with the author, Dr. Jamil Hasanli, Member of Parliament, Republic of
Azerbaijan and comments from Malcolm Byrne, Director of Research,
National Security Archive
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20004
Reception and Booksigning to Follow
For half a century, the United States and the Soviet Union were in
conflict. But how and where did the Cold War begin? Jamil Hasanli
answers these intriguing questions in At the Dawn of the Cold War. He
argues that the intergenerational crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan
(1945-1946) was the first event that brought the Soviet Union to a
confrontation with the United States and Britain after the period of
cooperation between them during World War II. Based on top-secret
archive materials from Soviet and Azerbaijani archives as well as
documents from American, British, and Iranian sources, the book
details Iranian Azerbaijan's independence movement, which was backed
by the USSR, the Soviet struggle for oil in Iran, and the American and
British reactions to these events. These events were the starting
point of the longer historical period of unarmed conflict between the
Soviets and the West that is now known as the Cold War. This book is a
major contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and
international politics following WWII.
Dr. Jamil Hasanli was born in 1952 in Azerbaijan. He graduated from
Baku State University, receiving his Kandidat Nauk degree in 1984 and
Doctorate in 1992. He has been working as Professor at Baku State
University since 1992, where his general field of specialization is
the History of International Relations. In 1992-1993 Dr. Hasanli
served as Advisor to the President of Azerbaijan on Political Affairs.
He was elected to the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan twice
(2000-2005; 2005-present). He is the author of 10 monographs and more
than 100 articles in the field of History and International Relations.
His works have been published in Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, the
USA, and other countries. His main publications include Azerbaijan in
the System of International Relations in 1918-1920, a series of books
on Iranian Azerbaijan during the Cold War period, USSR-Turkey: Testing
Ground of the Cold War, and others. Dr. Hasanli has revealed many
documents with regard to the Cold War from the archives of Azerbaijan,
Armenia, Georgia, and Russia for the first time in his field of
research. His current research activities are focused on the Middle
East during the Cold War period.
Malcolm Byrne, Deputy Director and Director of Research at the
National Security Archive, currently directs the Openness in Russia
and Eastern Europe Project, and the U.S.-Iran Relations Project, both
of which promote
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev shairbekgmail.com
Posted: 22 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public
Policy, Kyrgyzstan (October 26 - November 08), appearing on the
Institute's website:
Daily overview of events, November 9-21
"Political and Legal Analysis of the Changes in the Constitution of
the Kyrgyz Republic"
Gulnara Iskakova
"Reform of Inter-Budget Relations and the Tax System: Risks for the
Budget of the Capital"
Andrey Filatov
Roundtable: "The New Constitution: Politics or Law?"
Summary of the roundtable
"The Constitution Was Signed: Now It's Time to Change It"
Valentin Bogatyrev
"Constitution agreed, but is crisis over?"
IPP
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL.- "Arms and Armor from Iran," by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani
Posted by: Babak Rezvani <B.Rezvaniuva.nl>
Posted: 20 Nov 2006
PUBL.- "Arms and Armor from Iran," by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani
"Arms and Armor from Iran. The Bronze Age to the Qajar Period"
by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani.
The quality and beauty of historical, Iranian arms have been
fascinating researchers and collectors of the whole world for many
centuries. Until now, books and articles about this topic have been
written rather seldom. "Arms and Armor from Iran "is the result of
many years of research and presents the royal collections of ten
Iranian museums from the Bronze Age until the Qajar Period, 1925. Many
of the exhibits shown in this book cannot be regarded by the public
and are shown in unique photographies for the very first time. This
extensive book begins with the different methods of casting bronze
weapons and explains the different types from the Northern Iranian
areas (Gilan, Marlik, Amlash). Then, those from the South-Western
areas are portrayed (Luristan, Meshkinshahr, Hasanlu). When the
Indo-European immigrants came to the Iran, new weapon types were introduced.
Numerous pictures show valuable swords for example from the period of
the Sassanids. The different classifications of the Wootz steal and
its production are explained in detail, as well as different sorts of
historical weapons are: Swords, lances, spears, daggers, knifes, bows
or armors.
Dive into this fantastic world of gold, steal and the fascinating
history of Iran. We already have received orders from over 15
countries for this exceptional book. This monumental and extraordinary
book covers all aspects from archaeology, military history up to art
history of Iranian Arms and Armor with detailed scientific texts and
photos of artifacts, which have never been published before. It will
be the standard publication in this field for years to come.
For more information please visit:
http://www.arms-and-armor-from-iran.de
You will find reviews under:
http://www.arms-and-armor-from-iran.de/b05_publicity.html
Book details:
Arms and Armor from Iran
Bronze Age to the Qajar Period
Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani
780 pages
Over 2800 colored and over 600 black-and-white photographs 600 cross
references
30,5 cm x 27 cm
Hardcover with jacket
LEGAT Verlag
Lessingweg 26, D-72076 Tübingen
Telefon 0 70 73-30 24 49, Telefax 0 70 73 -30 24 51
alexander.franklegat-verlag.de http://www.legat-verlag.de
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Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH Amtsgericht Tübingen HRB 2537
Geschäftsführer: Heike Frank-Ostarhild, Alexander Frank, Erhard Gaß
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 15 November 2006, is online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 17 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 15 November 2006, is online
Highlights: This Analyst issue features Rafis Abazov on the collapse
of public service and the troubles in Kyrgyzstan; Peter Laurens on the
economic consequences for Georgia or Russia's economic warfare; Jaba
Devdariani on changes in Georgia's political course following the
recent spat; and Hooman Peimani on emerging Trans-Asian railroad
networks. In Field Reports, articles on Uzbek-Kazakh talks on
Kyrgyzstan; Rahmonov's re-election in Tajikistan; consequences for
Armenia of Russian-Georgian tensions; and on President Aliyev's tour
of Azerbaijan.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"The State-Crime Nexus In Central Asia: State Weakness, Organized
Crime And Corruption In Kyrgyzstan And Tajikistan"
By Erica Marat, 138 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610EMarat.pdf
"Minorities And The State In The South Caucasus: Assessing The Protection Of
National Minorities In Georgia And Azerbaijan"
By Johanna Popjanevski, 85pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0609Popjanevski.pdf
The 15 November issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 8,
no. 22) is now online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version of the entire issue of the 1
November CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20061115Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
The Collapse Of Public Service And Kyrgyzstan's Endemic Instability
Rafis Abazov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4560
The Current Spat With Russia Has Georgia Under A Cloud-With A Silver
Lining, Perhaps
Peter Laurens
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4561
Georgia Cuts Losses In A Harmful Russia Row
Jaba Devdariani
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4562
Trans-Asia Rail Network A Potential Benefit To Central Asian And
Caucasian States
Hooman Peimani
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4563
Field Reports
Uzbek And Kazakh Leaders Prop Up Bakiyev's Regime
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4564
Tajikistan: Rahmonov Reelected With A Landslide
Zoya Pylenko
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4565
Russian-Georgian Tension Raise Concerns In Armenia, But No Real Impact Yet
Haroutiun Khachatrian
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4566
President Tours The Country, Opposition Warns Of Election Campaign Pr
Fariz Ismailzade
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4567
NEWS DIGEST:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development,economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL.- Nationalities Papers, November 2006 Issue
Posted by: Serguei Alex Oushakine <oushakinPrinceton.EDU>
Posted: 17 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Nationalities Papers, November 2006 Issue
Volume 34 Number 5/November 2006 of Nationalities Papers
Regional Political Divisions in Ukraine in 1991-2006 p. 507
Ivan Katchanovski
Redefining Religion: Uzbek Atheist Propaganda in Gorbachev-Era
Uzbekistan p. 533
Sarah Kendzior
Competing Priorities, Ambiguous Loyalties: Challenges of Socioeconomic
Adaptation and National Inclusion of the Interwar Bulgarian Refugees p.
549
Theodora Dragostinova
A Separate Moldovan Language? The Sociolinguistics of Moldova's Limba de
Stat p. 575
Matthew H. Ciscel
The Development and Institutionalization of Romani Representation and
Administration. Part 3a: From National Organizations to International
Umbrellas (1945-1970)-Romani Mobilization at the National Level p. 599
Ilona Klímová-Alexander
Questioning the Hegemony of the Nation State in Belarus: Production of
Intellectual Discourses as Production of Resources p. 623
Alexander Pershai
Book Reviews p. 637
PUBL.- Call for Articles, PRSPs in Central Asia & South Caucasus
Posted by: <B.V.Babajanianlse.ac.uk>
Posted: 17 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Call for Articles, PRSPs in Central Asia & South Caucasus
Call for Articles
Central Asia and South Caucasus Social Development Network
(CASC-Social) PRSPs in Central Asia and South Caucasus: Five Years On
The LSE Centre for Civil Society is pleased to announce a call for
articles for the publication in the inaugural issue of the CASC-Social
Newsletter in February 2007. CASC-Social was established in May 2006
at the LSE Centre for Civil Society as a network of researchers and
practitioners interested in social development issues in Central Asia
and the South Caucasus (CASC). The first issue of the CASC-Social
Newsletter will be devoted to the experiences with the Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in the CASC region.
Most 'first generation' PRSPs in the CASC region are near completion,
and 'second generation' PRSPs are being currently prepared. The first
generation PRSPs represented an 'experiment', which can stimulate
important policy processes and generate valuable experience and
learning. The PRSPs in the CASC region have received relatively little
attention from international scholars and development professionals.
There is still a need to document and analyse the key achievements and
challenges in developing, implementing and monitoring poverty
reduction strategies in the region. Some of the issues that can be
explored include the extent of the pro-poor orientation of national
governments, civil society mobilisation and public participation in
the design and implementation of policies, donor support and co-ordination,
implementation and monitoring procedures of poverty reduction
strategies, as well as the design and conceptualisation of poverty in
the PRSPs.
You are invited to submit articles (maximum 800 words) with your
analysis of any of these or other relevant issues in one or several
countries of the CASC region. All submissions will be reviewed by the
CASC-Social editorial board, and a selection of articles will be
published in the inaugural issue of the CASC Newsletter in February
2007. The deadline for submission is 20 January 2007. Articles/queries
should be submitted to CASC-SOCIAL-ANNOUNCE-LLISTSERV.LSE.AC.UK.
Please note that you will need to subscribe to the list in order to be
able to submit articles and receive the newsletter. To subscribe to
CASC-Social, send an email to
CASC-SOCIAL-ANNOUNCE-LLISTSERV.LSE.AC.UK with you full name,
institutional affiliation and email address.
Guidelines for Submitting Short Articles:
Please include the following information in your submission:
- Short summary of research methods
- Main question (s)
- Implications for policy and practice
Presentation: Articles (max 800 words) should be Word processed and
submitted as an email attachment. The text should be arranged in the
following order of presentation. First sheet: title; subtitle (if
any); author's name, affiliation, contact details (email preferable)
at which you would like to be contacted by other members; and
acknowledgements(if any). Respective affiliations and addresses of
co-authors should be clearly indicated. Please specify in which
capacity you were involved in the research/programme (e.g., academic
researcher, development consultant, project/NGO staff, etc.).
Subsequent sheets: main body of text; list of references and
footnotes; appendices; tables (on separate sheets); captions to
illustrations (on a separate sheet); illustrations.
General formatting: Submissions should not exceed 800 words, and
should be written in good English. Articles that require substantial
editing and formatting will not be published. The text should be one
and one-half spaced and organised under appropriate section headings.
All pages should be numbered. Please do not use underlines or bold for
emphasis, always italics. Foreign words should be set in italics.
Footnotes to the text should be confined to the minimum number
necessary. Footnotes should be numbered sequentially as arabic numbers
superior to the text in the appropriate positions in the text.
References: References should use the Harvard system for published
works, i.e. authors' name, date of publication, and page numbers if
required, in brackets in the text (e.g.: 'Smith (1999, pp. 141-42)
suggested that ...'). Full details should then be provided in a
section under the heading References at the end of the text, giving
author's last name and initials, date of publication, title of book or
journal article, place of publication and publisher. Titles of
journals should be given in full.
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 15 November 2006, is online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 17 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 15 November 2006, is online
Highlights: This Analyst issue features Rafis Abazov on the collapse
of public service and the troubles in Kyrgyzstan; Peter Laurens on the
economic consequences for Georgia or Russia's economic warfare; Jaba
Devdariani on changes in Georgia's political course following the
recent spat; and Hooman Peimani on emerging Trans-Asian railroad
networks. In Field Reports, articles on Uzbek-Kazakh talks on
Kyrgyzstan; Rahmonov's re-election in Tajikistan; consequences for
Armenia of Russian-Georgian tensions; and on President Aliyev's tour
of Azerbaijan.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"The State-Crime Nexus In Central Asia: State Weakness, Organized
Crime And Corruption In Kyrgyzstan And Tajikistan"
By Erica Marat, 138 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610EMarat.pdf
"Minorities And The State In The South Caucasus: Assessing The Protection Of
National Minorities In Georgia And Azerbaijan"
By Johanna Popjanevski, 85pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0609Popjanevski.pdf
The 15 November issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 8,
no. 22) is now online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version of the entire issue of the 1
November CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20061115Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
The Collapse Of Public Service And Kyrgyzstan's Endemic Instability
Rafis Abazov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4560
The Current Spat With Russia Has Georgia Under A Cloud-With A Silver
Lining, Perhaps
Peter Laurens
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4561
Georgia Cuts Losses In A Harmful Russia Row
Jaba Devdariani
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4562
Trans-Asia Rail Network A Potential Benefit To Central Asian And
Caucasian States
Hooman Peimani
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4563
Field Reports
Uzbek And Kazakh Leaders Prop Up Bakiyev's Regime
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4564
Tajikistan: Rahmonov Reelected With A Landslide
Zoya Pylenko
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4565
Russian-Georgian Tension Raise Concerns In Armenia, But No Real Impact Yet
Haroutiun Khachatrian
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4566
President Tours The Country, Opposition Warns Of Election Campaign Pr
Fariz Ismailzade
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4567
NEWS DIGEST:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development,economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL.- Introducing Steppe, Central Asia's First Glossy Cultural Magazine
Posted by: Summer Coish <summersummercoish.com>
Posted: 14 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Introducing Steppe, Central Asia's First Glossy Cultural Magazine
Introducing Steppe- Central Asia's First Glossy Cultural Magazine
Subscriptions now available at: www.steppemagazine.com
Central Asia - one of the least known and understood regions of the
world -is the perfect home for this autumn's hottest comedian - BORAT
SAGDIEV. Perfect, because few people know much about Kazakhstan, or
any of the 'stans that make up the region, which has allowed Borat to
use his interviewees' ignorance to brilliant comic effect.
However, all that is about to change as November 2006 sees the
publication of STEPPE MAGAZINE - the first ever glossy magazine
devoted to the arts, culture, history, landscape and people of Central
Asia (focusing on the five post-Soviet Central Asian states of
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, plus
Afghanistan and western China). By using both local and foreign
scholars, journalists, writers and photographers, STEPPE celebrates
the best features of the region. STEPPE looks at art and culture in
their widest sense including architecture, archaeology, objects,
interiors, textiles, people, landscape, history, music, cooking and
more. In addition, STEPPE publishes up to date information on cultural
events in the region, plus reviews of the latest books, films and
international exhibitions highlighting Central Asia.
The final product is an engaging and informative magazine with
beautiful visual images and in-depth editorial creating a timeless
collection chronicling all things Central Asian. STEPPE is designed to
become a leading international resource for accessible information on
the region. Articles are likely to have a historical twist or follow
in the footsteps of new discoveries in order to highlight the unusual.
STEPPE aims to reach those parts of Central Asia that rarely get
covered by other media.
So, in Issue I we bring you an exclusive interview with the wife and
daughter of the last Emir of Bukhara, Emir Alim Khan, plus photos
taken during the Emir's rule at the turn of the twentieth century
which, thanks to digital technology, have recently been produced in
startling technicolour; we review Colin Thubron's new book, Shadows of
the Silk Road, that re-traces his travels in the region after the
collapse of the Soviet Union; travel with the BBC's Central Asia
correspondent to a small Russian frontier town on the edge of the
world; learn how to cook mouth-watering Central Asian plov with
renowned Iranian chef Najmieh Batmanglij; marvel at the architecture
in Central Asia's largest public bathhouse in Almaty, Kazakhstan; stay
at Kabul's first ever five-star hotel; learn about the best places to
ski in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, including heli-skiing,
cross-country skiing, where to find a vodka shot at the top of the
slopes and tips on the best outdoor saunas; and enjoy a photo montage
of the region's top ten bus stops.
Subscribe to STEPPE MAGAZINE and you will find yourself with a
companion and a guide - a collectable, delectable source of
information chronicling the culture, the history, the landscape and
the people of a world slowly but surely stepping into global focus.
STEPPE is edited by Summer Coish and Lucy Kelaart, and is produced in
the UK and issued twice a year. Subscriptions can be purchased online
at www.steppemagazine.com and can be posted worldwide. STEPPE makes
the ideal holiday gift for friends and family who might not familiar
with the region where you work and/or study. Finally, STEPPE provides
an answer to those constant requests to describe what Central Asia is
really like.
If you are a journalist and are interested in reviewing STEPPE
Magazine, please contact the Editors directly on:
Summer Coish: +7 701 449 2806 or summersummercoish.com
Lucy Kelaart: +7 701 749 5186 or lucykelaart.com
STEPPE has been described as 'the most sophisticated magazine Central
Asia has ever seen.' Don't miss your chance to open the door onto
Central Asia: subscribe to STEPPE today! www.steppemagazine.com
Editors' Welcome
Kashgar lies where the maps in people's minds dissolve. This sentence
from Colin Thubron's new book Shadow of the Silk Road could just as
well apply to much of Central Asia today. Five of the seven countries
in STEPPE MAGAZINE'S focus were formerly part of the Soviet Union,
belonging to what seemed like an amorphous and indistinguishable mass
of soviet socialist republics. Add to that the fact that these
republics were only created by Stalin in the 1920s from a
cross-section of erstwhile emirates and tribal lands, then the very
fact that many people are blind to much of Central Asia becomes more
comprehensible. It is historical interludes, not contemporary life,
with which the vast majority of people are familiar: the Great Game,
the Tatar hordes, Samarkand, Merv, Herat. Although these names
resonate through time, Central Asia is much more than the sum of its
romantic parts.
In this, the inaugural issue of STEPPE MAGAZINE, we want you to read,
reflect, and look at Central Asia as if for the first time. We aim to
showcase Central Asia today while also setting the region in its
historical context. So, we bring you a remarkable set of colour
photographs of the Emirate of Bukhara, which are nearly 100 years old.
We marvel at the architecture in Central Asia's largest public
bathhouse in Almaty, Kazakhstan, talk with Tajikistan's best-known
jazz musician, dine with Brigid Keenan in London's only Silk Road
restaurant and take you to Kabul's first-ever five-star hotel. We look
at Central Asia's mountains from above with Yann Arthus-Bertrand and
follow in Colin Thubron's footsteps through the Taklamakan Desert in
Xinjiang. We show you the best places to ski in Central Asia and where
to find our top ten favourite bus stops. Central Asia is not as far
away as you think.
>From the little wooden house on the steppe, pictured on the front
cover, evocative of America's great mid-westem plains, to the Central
Asian art on show at the recent contemporary art biennales in Venice
and Singapore, STEPPE introduces you to a region that is slowly but
surely stepping into global focus. We will highlight the unusual and
take you for a ride across a revised and modernised Silk Road. From
the Bentleys parked outside Almaty's casinos to remote Pamiri villages
where a yak is still the flashiest mode of transport, STEPPE will be
your companion and your guide. Read STEPPE to discover a new Central
Asian panorama.
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <s.juraevipp.kg>
Posted: 13 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public
Policy, Kyrgyzstan (October 26 - November 08), appearing on the
Institute's website:
Daily overview of events, November 2-7
"We are close to what is called a failed state"
Interview with Muratbek Imanaliev
"Tough Politics: On Water Management in Central Asia"
Valentin Bogatyrev
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
The Institute for Public Policy making will organize a small workshop
on writing policy briefs. All are welcome to apply to attend the
workshop, which will be held in English. The workshop will take place
in a week of November 20-26, 2006, to be confirmed soon. For
information, please write to Shairbek Juraev at s.juraevipp.kg.
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL.- Photobook on Central Asia
Posted by: Herwig Photo <christopher.herwiggmail.com>
Posted: 13 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Photobook on Central Asia
Published: Photo book on Central Asia by photographer Christopher Herwig
Stanorama is a photographic experience exploring the 5 relatively new
Central Asian countries which were formed out of the ashes of the
former USSR: namely Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
and Kyrgyzstan. The book plays on the countries' common links as well
as the regions amazing contrasts. From Silk Road cities, to wild horse
games, to soviet kitsch and new oil wealth, the viewer is offered a
rare look at life in a part of the world completely unknown to many.
Available online orders only www.herwigphoto.com
Publisher. www.lulu.com
Contact: chrisherwigphoto.com
PUBL.- Sa'di: The Poet Of Life, Love And Compassion
Posted by: Babak Rezvani <B.Rezvaniuva.nl>
Posted: 6 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Sa'di: The Poet Of Life, Love And Compassion
Sa'di: The Poet Of Life, Love And Compassion
Publication
Read about one of Persia's most loved Poets, Sa'di, in a recent
addition to the Makers of the Muslim World series. Providing a fresh
look at his life and poetry.
Author
Dr Homa Katouzian
Publisher
Oneworld Publications, Makers of the Muslim World series, Series
Editor: Patricia Crone (Publication date: October 2006)
Introduction
Sa'di was one of the greatest Persian writers of both classical prose
and poetry, and was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and
passion. Sometimes said to have lived over one hundred years, the body
of his work was written in the thirteenth century. An indefatigable
traveler, a mentor to the pious, and an analyst of morals both public
and private, his best writing focused on the themes of physical and
spiritual love.
Lavishly interspersed with extracts and critical analyses of the
poet's enchanting verse, Katouzian explores Sa'di's place beside Rumi
and Hafiz, Persia's other great poets. With a comprehensive guide to
further reading, and including fascinating background about Sa'di's
eventful life, this decisive biography offers a unique insight into
the aptly-named 'poet of life, love and compassion'.
Dr Homa Katouzian is the Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow,
Oxford University, and the editor of Iranian Studies. He is the author
of several books on Iranian literature, history and society.
Orders and Enquiries
30 GBP Hardcover, plus postage and packing.
For placing and order or additional information please
email infooneworld-publications.com
or visit www.oneworld-publications.com
If you wish not to receive any more emails from the Iran Heritage
Foundation, please email your request to infoiranheritage.org.
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 1 November 2006, is Online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 2 Nov 2006
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 1 November 2006, is Online
Highlights: This Analyst issue's feature article by Dmitry Shlapentokh
analyzes the Kondopoga riots in Karelia against ethnic Caucasians, and
whether they are a portent of things to come. In Analytical Articles,
Cohen and Irwin discuss Turkey's continued lynchpin role in Eurasian
pipeline politics; Kevin Leahy puts the Russian idea of salvaging the
North Caucasus by private investment into question; and Stephen Blank
studies the implications of Kyrgyzstan's weakness on Central Asia's
stability. Field reports feature articles on Tajikistan's upcoming
presidential elections; the failure of warring sides in Kyrgyz
politics to meet; the Georgian opposition's return to parliament; and
the implications of a HIV scandal in Southern Kazakhstan.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"The State-Crime Nexus In Central Asia: State Weakness, Organized
Crime And Corruption In Kyrgyzstan And Tajikistan"
By Erica Marat, 138 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610EMarat.pdf
"Minorities And The State In The South Caucasus: Assessing The
Protection Of National Minorities In Georgia And Azerbaijan"
By Johanna Popjanevski, 85pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0609Popjanevski.pdf
The 1 November issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 8,
no. 21) is now online at http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version
of the entire issue of the 1 November CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20061101Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
Feature Article
The Kondopoga Riots: The Sign Of Things To Come?
Dmitry Shlapentokh
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4552
Analytical Articles
Turkey: A Linchpin In Pipeline Politics
Ariel Cohen and Conway Irwin
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4553
Salvaging The North Caucasus By Investments: Surkov's Leap Of Logic
Kevin Daniel Leahy
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4554
Kyrgyzstan's Weakness And Central Asia's Insecurity
Stephen Blank
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4555
Field Reports
Tajikistan Preparing For Presidential Elections
Zoya Pylenko
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4556
Meetings Between President And Opposition In Kyrgyzstan Failed To Materialize
Nurshat Ababakirov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4557
Georgian Opposition Suspends Boycott Of Parliament
Kakha Jibladze
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4558
Hiv Scandal In South Kazakhstan Reveals Poor Medical Standards
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4559
News Digest:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development, economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL./CFP- Ab Imperio 2007 Annual Program
Posted by: Sergey Glebov <sglebovsmith.edu>
Posted: 30 Oct 2006
PUBL./CFP- Ab Imperio 2007 Annual Program
The editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the
journal's annual program in 2007 and to solicit manuscript
submissions. Information on the journal, as well as all contact
information and guidelines for article submission can be found at
http://abimperio.net
Ab Imperio editors
Ab Imperio 2007 Annual Program:
The Imperium Of Knowledge And The Power Of Silences
In 2007 the editors of Ab Imperio invite our readers and authors to
reflect upon the problem of production and functioning of knowledge in
politically, culturally, and socially heterogeneous polities. In the
modern world knowledge is a highly ambivalent category. It appears
simultaneously as abstract scholarly knowledge, stricto sensu, and as
local (in Geertzian sense) knowledge and mental habits of specific
people in particular localities; as a self-representation and
self-description of a certain culture, and as disciplining power that
not so much reflects as it creates and structures social reality by
means of its institutional self-reproduction and by acquiring an
autonomous subjectivity of its own. The editors of Ab Imperio welcome
various interpretations and methodological approaches to the study of
the phenomenon of knowledge, which jointly can help shed light upon
both general problems of epistemology of social sciences in
contemporary world and particular problems that emerge in the studies
of the historic past of culturally heterogeneous polities and social groups.
Clearly, we cannot avoid referring to the intellectual influence of
Michel Foucault upon our views on the functioning of knowledge in
modern societies (as well as to the limitations of his approaches).
Next to the problem of naively mechanistic understanding of
circulation of texts in a society (something that Foucault has long
been criticized for), we see the problem in that the society Foucault
describes is absolutely homogenous, more so than even the real Fifth
Republic. What happens to Foucault's model if it is superimposed upon
a multinational and heterogeneous society, in which there co-exist
alternative hierarchies of social status and the subject (or subjects)
generating discourses function simultaneously in several social and
cultural dimensions? A factor of special concern here will be numerous
"gray zones" of silence and elusiveness (and of half-truths)
effectively limiting the sphere of modern knowledge-power in the
heterogeneous imperial space.
Within the 2007 program, we are especially interested in a particular
form of knowledge, namely history as a discipline; or, to be more
precise, the specifics of historical exploration of empires. We
suggest looking at how historical knowledge is utilized in
constructions of imperial legitimacies and power; how historians work
with imperial legacies and ambivalent memories of the imperial pasts.
We also suggest exploring how imperial situations influences the
formation of hierarchies of loyalties and solidarities of social
identity; how discourses of rationalization and control, having
changed the context, are becoming transformed into discourses of
spontaneous collective action. How is it possible, as a matter of
general theory, to read and understand discourses in a deeply
stratified multiethnic and multi-confessional society with no inherent
contradictions to our reading? Whose knowledge, in an imperial
situation, secures power, and who is the subject of that power?
Finally, within our annual theme we invite the community of our
readers and authors to reflect upon the growing tendency to describe
various phenomena of our present world order with the help of the
category of empire: what makes people return to this seemingly archaic
category?
No. 1/2007 The Discipline of History and the Punishment of Empire
Political authority and control over past in empire and
nation;colonization and decolonization of imperial history by national
historiographies; historians in Russian empire and USSR: experts or
officials; Russian historians and Slavic Studies in the West:
paradoxes of core-periphery relationships; whose norm? imperial order
and national deviation; the laws of history and the history of law;
historiography as symbolic violence; - whom do you threaten,
historian?; - configuration of power-knowledge in empire and nation; who
is the subject of history in empire?
No. 2/2007 The Politics of Comparison
Mandarins of official knowledge, apples and oranges: selecting objects
of comparison as a political act; choosing the rival in world politics
as a choice of fate; political connotations of historical
periodizations; comparative history or the history of mutual
influences and transfer?; rotation of administrative personnel, labor
migration, and travel as factors of cultural transfer; comparison as a
practice of quality assurance of modernization at the individual,
collective, and state level; empire as a space of comparative
experiences; comparison as a practice of normalization of local experience.
No. 3/2007 History on Trial
How does history judge?; what is different and what is common in
historical and legal judgement; banned history; postmodernism,
juridical expertise, and the problem of objective historical opinion;
history as a source of legitimacy; historical expertise as legal
judgement; historical revisionism and the problem of inviolable state
borders; empire as arbiter: Justice of Peace or tribunal?;
revolutionary violence: national liberation movement as extenuating
circumstances; the problem of the universality of legal norms in
historical judgement; denazification as a problematic model for
desovietization; international law and historical legitimacies:
Versailles, Trianon, Yalta, Nuremberg, the Hague.
No. 4/2007 The Future of the Past
The past as a guarantee of a stable future: eternal nation, thousand
year Reich; forecasting future as selective homogenization of the
present; long century short century: putting in order the rhythm of
history; the phenomenon of futuristic schemes: from prognosis toward
utopia, or the Eros of the upcoming; the imagined and projected
boundaries; history of federalist projects in East Europe and Eurasia;
history of constitutional projects; the problem of
homogeneity/heterogeneity and synchronism/discreteness of the
historical time in empire; o tempora, o mores! Retrospective
historicization of moral and social norms; how time heals: the making
and overcoming of ruptures in historical time.
PUBL.- TOC, Volume 25 Number 1-2/March-June 2006 of Central Asian Survey
Posted by: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <oushakinPrinceton.EDU>
Posted: 30 Oct 2006
PUBL.- TOC, Volume 25 Number 1-2/March-June 2006 of Central Asian Survey
Volume 25 Number 1-2/March-June 2006 of Central Asian Survey
This issue contains:
Afghanistan's post-Taliban transition: the state of state-building after war
p. 1
Thomas H. Johnson
The pendulum of gender politics in Afghanistan p. 27
Maliha Zulfacar
Mission impossible: the politico-geographical engineering of Soviet Central
Asia's republican boundaries p. 61
Amanda Farrant
Central Asia: is there an alternative to regional integration? p. 75
Inomjon Bobokulov
Selective enforcement and irresponsibility: Central Asia's shrinking space
for independent media p. 93
Olivia Allison
'A little help from my friend?' Analysis of network links on the meso level
in Uzbekistan p. 115
Kai Wegerich
Trapped in permanent neutrality: looking behind the symbolic production of
the Turkmen nation p. 129
Barbara Kiepenheuer-Drechsler
Ethnic composition of Kazakhstan on the eve of the Second World War:
re-evaluation of the 1939 Soviet census results p. 143
Mark Tolts
A case study of foreign direct investment in Kyrgyzstan p. 149
Mehmet Dikkaya, Ibrahim Keles
History and identity among the Hemshin p. 157
Hovann H. Simonian
Shaykh Batal Hajji from Surkhokhi: towards the history of Islam in
Ingushetia p. 179
Julietta Meskhidze
From tactical terrorism to Holy War: the evolution of Chechen terrorism,
1995-2004 p. 193
Yagil Henkin
Book Reviews p. 205
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <shairbekgmail.com>
Posted: 25 Oct 2006
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public
Policy, Kyrgyzstan (October 11 - October 24), appearing on the
Institute's website:
"Pragmatic Foreign Policy Must Also Be Consistent"
Abdujalil Abdurasulov
"The 'Jubilee' of the Chinese-Kyrgyz-Uzbek Railroad"
Erlan Abdyldaev
"A Dialogue with Islamists is Inevitable for Central Asian States"
Interview with Aleksey Malashenko
"Parliamentary Form of Governance: Risks vs. Opportunities"
Nurlan Kashkaraev and Emir Kulov
"Unemployment of Youth in Kyrgyzstan: Particularities of the Problem
and Possible Solutions"
Anar Musabaeva
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <shairbekgmail.com>
Posted: 11 Oct 2006
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public
Policy, Kyrgyzstan (September 21 - September 27), appearing on the
Institute's website:
"Forging Broken Links: Uzbeks and the State in Kyrgyzstan"
Alisher Khamidov
"The Reform of Inter-Budget Relations: Effectiveness is in Question"
Valentina Scherbakova
"How to Construct an Independent Judiciary: Various Options"
Tamerlan Ibraimov
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL.- Legal Aspects of Border Management in Central Asia, 2006
Posted by: E.Juraev <e.juraevosce-academy.net>
Posted: 5 Oct 2006
PUBL.- Legal Aspects of Border Management in Central Asia, 2006
The OSCE Academy in Bishkek would like to announce the publication,
electronic and in hardcopy, of research results of its 'Legal Aspects
of Border Management in Central Asia' project. This project, carried
out in 2005-2006, aimed at exploring how each of the five former
Soviet countries of this region managed its national borders in legal
terms. These countries, having lived within common national borders of
the Soviet Union until 1991, found themselves sharing unclearly drawn
national borders between each other after that date. The processes of
delimitation and demarcation of Central Asian borders are still far
from complete. Yet, legal regulation of cross-border interaction has
been put in place and evolving nonetheless.
The researchers - authors of the publication - are A. Sabyrov
(Kazakhstan), V. Kiyutin (Kyrgyzstan), T. Bayandinov (Tajikistan), Ch.
Muradov (Turkmenistan), and J. Haidarov (Uzbekistan), with M.
Imanaliev (Kyrgyzstan) as the supervisor of the research group. The
publication is a book in six parts: an introduction and five
contributions on the five Central Asian countries respectively. While
the subject and questions of research were common for all countries,
the authors for the respective countries had freedom in the format and
structure of their contributions, thus producing five chapters
slightly differing in contents.
The language of the publication is Russian. The hardcopy version is in
limited copies, however we recommend the free-of-charge electronic
version of the document in PDF format in the OSCE Academy in Bishkek
website www.osce-academy.org, under "Research".
CD/PUBL.- Uyghur On-Ikki Muqam CDs and VCDs Available
Posted by: Ian Price <ianpricebeyhotmail.com>
Posted: 4 Oct 2006
CD/PUBL.- Uyghur On-Ikki Muqam CDs and VCDs Available
There are a few copies of the complete sets of the Uyghur 'On-Ikki
Muqam' CDs and VCDs still available. . It would seem that there will
be no further re-productions made of these materials in the
foreseeable future and so, are becoming something of a rarity.
The CD set costs $200 and the VCD set (12 VCDs) $250. There are also
13 books which contain the musical transcriptions of the Muqams along
with the texts in both Uyghur and Chinese. The books cost $470. These
prices include the cost of overland and sea mail from China (about 30 days).
If anyone is interested in purchasing these CDs,VCDs, or books, please contact:
Ian Price
E-mail: ianpricebeyhotmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS.- 2nd Call, Journal of Power Inst. in Post-Soviet Societies
Posted by: Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski <contactpipss.org
Posted: 4 Oct 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS.- 2nd Call, Journal of Power Inst. in Post-Soviet Societies
The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies #6, June 2007
An electronic journal of social sciences, www.pipss.org
Call for Contributors:
Pipss.org is a new electronic journal of social sciences devoted to
the armed forces and power institutions of post-Soviet societies.
Pipss.org is a multi-disciplinary journal, which addresses issues
across a broad field of disciplines including sociology, anthropology,
political science, psychology, economics, history, legal science. Its
main objective is to study changes and their underlying mechanisms in
post-Soviet republics, through the analysis of the institutions that
remain most hidden from the public eye: armies and power institutions.
As an electronic journal, pipss.org also aims to promote scholarly
debate across as broad an audience as possible, and make CIS research
available to Western scholars. Thanks to its international scientific
board drawn from a large pool of leading academics and experts in
their respective fields, it is in a position to become a leading
source of analysis on post-Soviet societies. Pipss.org is a principal
partner of the International Security Network and a member of the
CNRS/EHESS scientific journal network Revues.org.
Sixth Issue:
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian Republics
found themselves bound to build their own national armies and more
recently, because of the changing security environment, they were
compelled to new military reforms.
A lot has been written on Central Asian military reform and the
influence of the West, but very little is known about those men who
leads the Central Asian armies, about the bodies in charge of the
defence implementation.... Who are the Central Asian officers today.
What do they read, what do they have in mind? How do they position
themselves in the struggle between Soviet heritage, western influence
and Central Asian heritage? These questions (among others) remain
unanswered.
That is why the issue editors of volume 6 would like to invite
sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, political scientists,
military analysts etc.... to submit their papers for publication in a
special issue on Defence Reform in Central Asia.
This volume aims to cover (but does not to limit itself to) the
following issues:
1 - The Soviet heritage: the endurance of military networks belonging
to the Soviet period; dedovshchina in Central Asian Armies; The image
of Soviet armed forces in Central Asian societies
2 - Building the new national soldier:
A. The role of national epic heroes in building the national soldier;
Is Central Asian military ethos fundamentally different from Soviet
and (post-Soviet) Russian military culture?; What role do national
epic heroes play in the building of the national soldier in Central
Asian armies?
B - The Central Asian officer: a sociological portrait; The renewal of
military elites, their sociological composition, the changes in
recruitment; Changes in the ethnic composition of the armed forces of
the Central Asia Republics due to the massive departure of Russian
officers (who returned mainly to Russia and the Ukraine); Professional
military staff preparation and training: the training of a specialist
corps whose members are recruited among a population with a low level
of instruction, and which was not allowed to occupy positions of
responsibility during the Soviet regime; The difficult interaction of
Russian officers with local officers due to language problems
affecting the chain of command; Military personnel's wives / Women in
the military in Central Asian societies.
3 - Military/society relations'; The role of solidarities and
loyalties in Central Asian armies: minorities in the military; kinship
networks in the military; The action of military elites as lobby
groups and the perceptions they generate. Are these elites no more
than interest group(s) competing with others for the ownership and use
of resources, power, etc.... or does their state function (defense,
public order) confer upon them a specific role and modus operandi?;
How the contradictions affecting Central Asian societies (tribal and
clan divisions, ethnic tension, regional disparities, urban-rural
differences, social inequalities etc) affects the national armies?;
The Central Asian armies in Central Asian public opinion.
4 - Central Asian defence reform and defence strategy A - Military
reform; Implementation of state measures, military reform: the bodies
in charge; Military reform and structural changes: how military
reforms have affected Soviet-style regimental structures; Central
Asian military legislation and military justice
B - Defense strategy and territorial division; What are the actors in
charge of building and maintaining national security structures and
infrastructure in the different Republics of Central Asia?; What are
their current role and mission?; Are they wholly independent of their
national centres or symbiotically related to a variety of regional,
local or national actors?; Territorial division and security policy
in Central Asian Republics: assessing the impact of the regions'
(districts) contribution to national security policies; Non state
security actors operating in the regions (the role of local militias);
Non governmental actors and assistance to the military?; Corruption
and regional security
C - Other security forces; Very often literature on Post-Soviet armed
forces fails to cover police forces and security services. Therefore
the issue editors would like to assess the role and the importance
given to other security forces (Interior troops, border troops,
security services...) in Central Asian Republics. Are Central Asian
Republics following the Russian model? Have military reforms been
severely limited by the role given to these forces as they have in
post-Soviet Russia? Or have Central Asian Republics escaped this
phenomenon? Are their any linkage between defence reform and security
sector reform?
5 - What Russia and the West can learn from Central Asian armies.
The issue editors welcome studies of original experiences conducted in
Central Asian countries such as the creation of army unit councils in
Uzbekistan (these councils of five - seven people are formed at
general meetings of privates and sergeants by open ballot for a
one-year term and aim to help forming a healthy spiritual and moral
atmosphere in military communities, or of a similar body in
Kyrgyzstan: the garrison public council. Could Russia learn from these
experiences and specificities (Uzbekistan broke new ground when a
civilian was appointed defence minister)?
What about the West? One cannot help but look or even hope for a
specificity in Central Asian countries as an alternative to modernity.
Papers dealing with other issues related to armies and power
institutions in the CIS, as well as book review proposals are also
welcome.
REVIEWS
Publishers interested in publicizing their editions, please send
review copies to:
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
15 rue Charlot
75003 Paris, France
PUBL.- Discovery Central Asia Travel Magazine
Posted by: Marat Akhmedjanov <silkroadlist.ru>
Posted: 4 Oct 2006
PUBL.- Discovery Central Asia Travel Magazine
Discovery Central Asia Travel Magazine is the only English language
publication from the heart of Central Asia that brings you 4x/year the
up to date indispensable tourism information you need on one of the
most exciting regions yet to discover on the globe.
With Discovery Central Asia and its complimentary supplements
featuring Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan respectively,
you gain an in-depth understanding of the people, nature, culture,
history, the arts & crafts from these lands along The Great Silk Road.
Our advertisement sections feature specific hotels and B&B s,
restaurants, tour operators and other related services that make your
journey unforgettable
Please visit the website at www.silkpress.com to fill out a Subscription form.
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PUBL.- R. F. Pateev, Political Aspects of Muslim Education in Russia
Posted by: Barbashin Maxim <barbmyandex.ru>
Posted: 4 Oct 2006
PUBL.- R. F. Pateev, Political Aspects of Muslim Education in Russia
PUBL.- R. F. Pateev, Political Aspects of Muslim Education in Russia:
History and Modernity (in Russian)
The Center for System and Regional Studies and Prognosis (Rostov State
University, Russia) is pleased to inform list members that the new
book is about to come out:
R. F. Pateev, Politicheskie aspekty musulmanskogo obrazovaniya v
Rossii: istoriya i sovremennost'
[Political Aspects of Muslim Education in Russia: History and Modernity]
Ujnorossiyskoe obozrenie [The South Russian Review] Issue 36. 2006.
Rostov-on-Don. Izdatelstvo SKNTS VSH. 172 p.
by ed. I. P. Dobaev
ISBN 5-87872-141-4
The monograph analyzes political aspects of Muslim education in Russia
based on comparative evolutions and conditions of Islamic education in
the Volga Region and North Caucasus.
The author considers the main features of the system revival of
Islamic education in modern Russia.
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <shairbekgmail.com>
Posted: 28 Sep 2006
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public Policy,
Kyrgyzstan (September 21 - September 27), appearing on the Institute's website:
Survey Report: Popular Attitudes Towards Political and Public
Institutions in Kyrgyzstan
"Kyrgyzstan - Uzbekistan: Escaping the Paradigm of Confrontation"
Valentin Bogatyrev
"The Youth Policy of Kyrgyzstan: Old Approaches for a New Generation"
Anar Musabaeva
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL.- Political Culture & Democratic Development in Central Asia
Posted by: Nalin Mohapatra <nalin238gmail.com>
Posted: 28 Sep 2006
PUBL.- Political Culture & Democratic Development in Central Asia
Nalin Kumar Mohapatra, Political Culture and Democratic Development in
Central Asia, pp.XVI, 346, Publisher: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata & BOOKWELL, New Delhi, India,
2006. ISBN: 81-89540-17-8, Price: Rs. 750
About the Book
The book is an attempt to examine nature of political culture and
democratic development in the five states of Central Asia, namely,
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. It
highlights the historical and cultural factors influencing the
political process of these states. The role of institutional as well
as informal political factors like clan and civil society in shaping
the democratisation process has also been analysed. Radical Islam and
Inter and intra ethnic conflicts in these states have also been
examined in the present work.
For Details Contact
Bookwell Publishers
bkwell nde.vsnl.net.in and bookwell vsnl.net
About the Author
Dr. Nalin Kumar Mohapatra
Associate Editor,
Central Asian Studies Foundation,
New Delhi
India
nalin238rediffmail.com;
nalin238gmail.com
Contents:
Preface
Chapter I: Democratisation and Political Culture: A Theoretical Perspective
Chapter II: Democratisation and Political Culture in Pre-Soviet and
Soviet Central Asia: A Historical Perspective
Chapter III: Glasnost and Perestroika: Dialectics of Political Culture
in Soviet Central Asia
Chapter IV: Democratic Development in Central Asia
Chapter V: Clan, Corruption and Civil Society in Central Asia:
Informal Political Process, Political Culture and Democratisation
Chapter VI: Inter-Ethnic Relations, Radical Islamic Resurgence and
Nature of Democratisation Process in Central Asia
Conclusion
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
PUBL.- Khakas Turks' Epic of Herione "Khuban Arygh," Published in Turkish
Posted by: Timur Davletov <aronxakasyahoo.com>
Posted: 28 Sep 2006
PUBL.- Khakas Turks' Epic of Herione "Khuban Arygh," Published in Turkish
An ancient Khakas Turks' heroic epic "Khuban Arygh" [Huban Arig] has
for the first time been translated into Turkish from Khakas by Timur
B. Davletov and published in Turkey by Ankara-based International
Organization of TURKSOY [www.turksoy.org] in collaboration with
Ministy of Culture of Khakas Republic [Russian Federation].
This heroic epic [in Khakas: "alyptygh nymakh"] is dedicated to
heroine Khuban Arygh, who is leader of her nation, state and strong
warrioress. Beyond of that in this epic there is a lot of elements of
folk wisdom regarding war and peace, friendship and betrayals, heroism
and common human sense of fear, humanity and nature, three worlds
[Upper, Middle and Lower/Under worlds] of universe and complex of
their interrelationship.
Turkish variant [xvii + 286 pages] of epic is consist of presentation,
foreword, introduction, first and second chapters of heroic epic,
index of names of heroes and explanations related to them, and index
of horses of heroes of epic. Cover's design and illustrations within
book has been made by translator.
This work is recommended to Turkology researchers, specialists of
Central Asian region, ethnographers, all interested readers, etc.
Khakas Turks, who have continued to protect their rich cultural,
historical and spiritual heritage given by their ancestors Ienissei
Kyrgyz, is autochthonous people of Khakas Republic within Russian
Federation. The Khakas language is near to be exhausted so such works
conducted by International Organization of TURKSOY [Joint
Administration of Turkic Arts and Culture] bear very important mission
in the name of protect and popilarization of culture of small numbered
indigenous people like Khakas Turks.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- The Caucasus & Globalization Journal
Posted by: Kenan Allahverdiyev <allkenggmail.com>
Posted: 22 Sep 2006
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- The Caucasus & Globalization Journal
The Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus (ISSC) has been
founded in 1999 in Azerbaijan (Baku). Main objective of the ISSC is to
analyze and forecast geopolitical and geoeconomic processes in the
Caucasus. Basic directions of research are as follows: regional
geopolitical and geo-economic processes ; national and state building
in the countries of the Caucasus ; armed conflicts and regional
security; problems of economic development of the Caucasian states;
integration processes in the region; social and cultural problems of
the region's development; geo-history of the Caucasus .
In association with the Institute of Central Asian and Caucasian
studies (Sweden), the ISSC issues periodicals: journal of social and
political studies Central Asia and the Caucasus (Sweden) and
analytical annual Central Eurasia (Sweden). These publications are
issued in English and Russian and distributed in more than 50
countries worldwide .
Since 2006, the ISSC has started publishing a new quarterly journal of
social, political and economic studies The Caucasus & Globalization.
The journal has an international status and is issued in Russian and
English. The editorial board of the journal includes well-known
researchers: F. Starr, S. Cornell, D. Blum, D. Wersch (USA), A.
Matsunaga (Japan), M. Esenov (Sweden), A. Rondeli, A. Gegeshidze, V.
Papava (Georgia), S. Zhukov, I. Babich (Russia), M. Sanai (Iran),
M. Aydin (Turkey), E. Ismailov, N. Imanov, G. Kuliyev (Azerbaijan) et al.
The presentation ceremony of The Caucasus & Globalization took place
in September 2006. Demo-version of the first issue is placed on site:
www.ca-c.org
Basic objectives of The Caucasus & Globalization are as follows :
- Elucidation of the results of the latest studies on geopolitical
and geo-economic processes in the Caucasus;
- Publication of expert-analytical assessments and recommendations on
political, economic, legal and social problems of the Caucasian region
of applied significance for the governments, scientific-intellectual
and business-elites of the Caucasian countries;
- Formation of wide network of Caucasian researchers through enabling
them to discuss new analytical views on the history , policy, economy,
culture and religion of the region.
The journal has four permanent headings: geopolitics, geo-economics,
geo-culture and geo-history.
We invite you to cooperation and would be pleased to see your
researchers among authors of The Caucasus & Globalization.
Guidelines for Submission of Articles:
Articles are accepted and published in English and Russian
CGJ accepts usually original articles. Authors should clearly indicate
in their application whether an article (or its another version) has
been published elsewhere, or is under consideration by another publisher.
If copyrighted stuff is used in the article, it is the author's
responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder.
The typescript should be carefully checked for errors before it is
submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of
quotations, for supplying complete and correct references.
Authors should attach a brief biographical data (Names: First, Middle,
Last; Affiliation, a Scientific Degree, Position and Contacts).
Manuscripts should be emailed as an attachment in Word to: kavglobtdb.az
Requirements for articles
Articles should normally be within 4,000 to 5,000 words including all
notes and references. An indented and italicised abstract of up to 150
words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions must
precede the main text, and all pages should be numbered. An
introduction should follow the abstract and the article should consist
of sections and end with conclusion. The author is requested to give a
brief personal biography in a footnote at the beginning of the article.
The contributors are requested to use footnotes (not endnotes) and
avoid bibliography. Quotations should be placed within double
quotation marks ("....."). Titles and section headings should be
brief and clear. Names of the authors, places and publishing houses
are required to be written in their original forms.
Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data.
Tables and figures should have short, descriptive titles, and their
position in the text be clearly indicated. All footnotes to tables and
their source(s) should be placed under the tables. Column headings
should clearly define the data presented.
The styles of the references in footnotes should conform the following
examples:
- Articles in journals: Schuman, H. & Scott J. Generations &
collective memory. In American Sociological Review vol.54, 1998,
pp. 359-381.
- Books: Polkinghorne, D.E. Narrative Knowing and the Human
Sciences. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.
- Edited volumes: Schudson M. Dynamics of distortion in collective
memory. In D.L.Schacter, ed., Memory distortion: How minds, brains,
and societies reconstruct the past. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1995.
For more details, please, contact: (994 12) 596 11 73; (994 12) 596 11 74
E-mail allkenggmail.com
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Web: www.ca-c.org
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
Posted by: Shairbek Juraev <shairbekgmail.com>
Posted: 21 Sep 2006
PUBL.- Articles Analyzing Politics in Kyrgyzstan, Institute for Public Policy
The following are the latest articles of the Institute for Public Policy,
Kyrgyzstan (September 11 - September 20), appearing on the Institute's website:
Muratbek Imanaliev: "The Central Asian Republics Should Not Stand
Aside Awaiting Their Role in the SCO"
"Fifteen Years On: An Identity Failure"
Valentin Bogatyrev
"Current political situation in Kyrgyzstan"
Roundtable summary
"On the Path to Ideal Bureaucracy: the Future of Public Service in
Kyrgyzstan"
Kumar Bekbolotov
Coming soon:
Results of a nation-wide survey on "Popular attitude towards
political and public institutions in Kyrgyzstan", held in
July-August 2006.
Call for Papers and Cooperation - the IPP looks for contributors.
All are available at http://www.ipp.kg
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is a Bishkek-based independent,
non-partisan research and policy institution. IPP's scope is to study
and analyze relevant issues in the domains of politics, economy
foreign relations and other areas. The Institute is committed to
promote participatory approach in establishing public policy; to
strengthen expert analysis in order to achieve effective
decision-making in matters of public policy and to create an
independent platform for dialogue on public policy issues.
PUBL.- The China and Eurasia Forum (CEF) Quarterly, August 2006
Posted by: Christopher Len <clensilkroadstudies.org>
Posted: 18 Sep 2006
PUBL.- The China and Eurasia Forum (CEF) Quarterly, August 2006
The August 2006 issue of the CEF Quarterly is online at:
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/CEF_quarterly.htm
The PDF version of the entire issue is available at:
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006.pdf
The CEF Quarterly is published by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
& Silk Road Studies Program (Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)/Uppsala
University) and is devoted to analysis of the current issues facing
China and Eurasia. Focusing primarily on Sino-Central Asian,
Sino-Russian, and Sino-Caucasian relations, the aim of the CEF
Quarterly is to foster discussion and information sharing between a
geographically distant community that recognizes the significance of
China's emergence in this important part of the world.
Full contents:
1. Escaping the Resource Trap: Market Reform and Political Governance in
the Resource Rich Countries of Eurasia, p. 3-14
Alan Rousso
Alan Rousso is the Lead Counsellor at the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/Rousso.pdf
2. China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Post-Summit Analysis
and Implications for the United States, p. 15-21
Chin-Hao Huang
Chin-Hao Huang is a Research Assistant with the Freeman Chair in China
Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),
Washington, DC.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/Huang.pdf
3. India's Attitude towards China's Growing Influence in Central Asia,
p. 23-34
Gulshan Sachdeva
Gulshan Sachdeva is Associate Professor at the School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/Sachdeva.pdf
4. HIV/AIDS in Xinjiang: A Growing Regional Challenge, p. 35-50
Bates Gill & Song Gang
Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. & Song Gang is
an M.A. graduate from Brandeis University and a Research Intern with the
Freeman Chair.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/GillGang.pdf
5. After the G-8 Summit: China and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, p. 51-64
Ariel Cohen
Ariel Cohen is Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies
and International Energy Security at the Sarah and Douglas Allison
Center of the Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage
Foundation in the United States.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/Cohen.pdf
6. Escaping Russia, Looking to China: Turkmenistan Pins Hopes on China's
Thirst for Natural Gas, p. 67-87
Kathleen J. Hancock
Kathleen J. Hancock is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas,
San Antonio, United States.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/Hancock.pdf
7. Securing the Maritime Silk Route: Is there a Sino-Indian Confluence?
p. 89-103
Gurpreet Singh Khurana
Gurpreet Singh Khurana is a Missile Warfare specialist of the Indian
Navy and presently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence
Studies & Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/Khurana.pdf
8. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization at 5: Achievements and
Challenges Ahead, p. 105-123
Zhao Huasheng
Zhao Huasheng is Director of the Center for Russia and Central Asia
Studies, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies at Fudan
University in Shanghai, China.
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/August_2006/Huasheng.pdf
The journal and individual articles can also be downloaded from our webpage:
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/CEF_quarterly.htm
Subscription inquiries and requests for hard copies should be
addressed to: The China and Eurasia Forum, The Central Asia-Caucasus
Institute, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
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The China and Eurasia Forum, The Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala
University, Box 514, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail:
nnorlingsilkroadstudies.org or call +46 - 18 - 471 71 16.
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 6 September 2006, is Online
Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornelleurasia.uu.se>
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 6 September 2006, is Online
Highlights: This Analyst issue features Timur Dadabaev on the Japanese Prime
Minister's Central Asia visit; Kevin Leahy on cracks in the
pro-Russian camp in Chechnya; Richard Weitz on the EURASEC summit in
Sochi; and Muhammad Tahir on Turkmenistan'w warming to Iran's
Ahmadinejad. Field reports feature articles on Central Asian
reactions to the war in Lebanon, Ukraine's President's visit to Baku,
Chinese-Kazakh relations and the U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan.
Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:
"Islamic Radicalism In Central Asia And The Caucasus: Implications For The EU"
By Zeyno Baran, S. Frederick Starr, and Svante E. Cornell, 55pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0607Islam.pdf
"Central Asia's Economy: Mapping Future Prospects To 2015"
By Malcolm Dowling and Ganeshan Wignaraja, 104pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0607Wignaraja.pdf
"The Caucasus: A Challenge For Europe"
By Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, 85pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0606Caucasus.pdf
The 6 September issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is now online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org. The PDF version of the entire issue of the 6
September CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20060906Analyst.pdf
Full contents:
Analytical Articles
Japan's Central Asian Diplomacy And Its Implications
Timur Dadabaev
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4438
Said Magomed Kakiev: Chechnya's Strongman In Waiting?
Kevin Daniel Leahy
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4439
Sochi Summit Strengthens EURASEC
Richard Weitz
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4440
Iran And Turkmenistan: What Brought Ahmadinejad To Asghabat?
Muhammad Tahir
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4441
Field Reports
War In Lebanon Stirs Identity Issues In Central Asian States
Erica Marat
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4442
Ukrainian President Yushchenko's Upcoming Visit To Baku: Plans And Implications
Fariz Ismailzade
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4443
Astana Seeks Solution For Its Chinese Dilemma
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4444
The U.S.-Kyrgyz Military Base Negotiations
Joldosh Osmonov
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=4445
News Digest:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php
The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated
with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala University, Sweden.
The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports. At this
moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on development,
economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the Caucasus region,
but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the Editor, Svante
Cornell, at scornelljhu.edu with a short description of your article
idea. Editorial principles are online at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063
PUBL.- Mahmud al-Kashgari, Diwan Lugat At-Turk (translation into Russian)
Posted by: Zifa Auezova <zauezovabilim.kz>
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
PUBL.- Mahmud al-Kashgari, Diwan Lugat At-Turk (translation into Russian)
Daik-Press Publishers and Institute of Oriental Studies of Kazakhstan
have published:
Mahmud al-Kashgari, Diwan Lugat at-Turk ("Turkic Lexicon"), translated
with Introduction by Zifa-Alua Auezova and Index by Robert Ermers,
Almaty "Daik-Press" 2005. ISBN 9965-699-74-7.
Diwan Lughat at-Turk composed by a Turkic scholar Mahmud al-Kashghari
in the XI c. is one of the most remarkable sources of knowledge
related to history of Central Asian civilizations. In extensive
academic discussions of 1960-80s it was referred to primarily as an
oldest lexicographical source. However, recent developments in
societies identifying themselves with Turkic culture put forward a
quest for tracing up the "roots" of Turks in a wider context. Diwan
contains much interesting information and concepts that might be
helpful in understanding some aspects of self-identification and
culture of Turkic tribes in a broader sense.
Diwan was conceived as a book demonstrating richness and versatility
of language and culture of Turkic tribes, whose military triumph in
the X-XI cc. led to concentration of considerable political power by
Turks within the borders of Islamic world. For Turks this was the
early period of their identification with Islam. Judging by the
contents of Diwan and its dedication to Abbasid khalif al-Muqtadi
particularly, through his book Mahmud al-Kashghari intended to
introduce Turks and their culture to the "Islamic World".
Following the example of Arabs, who considered their language, the
language of Qur'an, to be most valuable element of their culture,
al-Kashghari chose the language of Turks as means for introduction
their culture and values to those who had not been familiar with them.
Being the earliest known Turkic book written in Arabic, Diwan Lughat
at-Turk was composed as a Turkic-Arabic lexicon, where Turkic words
were presented in Arabic transliteration and provided with translation
and comments on etymology, contexts and various possibilities of their use.
In the eyes of the author "Turkic dialects keep pace with Arabic like
two horses in a race": in order to prove that the language and poetry
of Turks was not inferior to those of Arabs, Mahmud al-Kashghari
generously quotes proverbs and fragments of ancient Turkic verses in
various genres, which had been familiar to Islamic readers from Arab
literature.
Present edition contains the first complete translation of Diwan
Lughat at-Turk into the Russian, made by Zifa-Alua Auezova from its
original in Arabic, introductory chapter dedicated to various aspects
of al-Kashghari's perception of Turkic culture on the early stage of
its islamization, and index of Turkic words compiled by Robert Ermers.
The translation was based on the facsimile edition of the manuscript
of Diwan Lugat at-Turk, published by the Ministry of Culture of Turkey in 1990.
For orders and more information, please write to Bolat Kazgulov,
Daik-Press Publishers, 050010 Almaty, 29 Kurmangazy str., or e-mail:
DaikSofmail.ru, or call at:7)3272613275 and 7)3272612835.
On September 15, 2006 Educational Center Bilim-Central Asia, National
Library of Kazakhstan and Mukhtar Auezov Museum are holding the
presentation of this book. Presentation will take place at 11am in the
Museum of Mukhtar Auezov in Almaty, 185 Tulebayev str. (corner of
Kurmangazy str.).
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