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Researching Central Asia Navigating Positionality in the Field
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central...
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Human Rights Adjudication in Central Asia
In this chapter, I will explore human rights adjudication in three Central Asian countries, namely, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan, in the...
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Geopolitics in Central Asia
Due to Central Asia’s strategic location as well as the presence of hydrocarbons, for the past 30 years the region has been of great interest to...
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Digitalization in Central Asia: Progress and Potential
All Central Asian governments have defined their digital agenda and are working on penetrating digital services at all levels. In addition to ongoing...
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Navigating Academic Repression in Central Asia
While much has been written about the risks facing foreign researchers conducting fieldwork under the “watchful eyes” of the local authorities in...
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China’s emergence and development challenges that China faces in Central Asia
Development in Central Asia faces intensifying headwinds in various aspects. Terrorism and political instability have been the primary sources of...
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Pitfalls and Promise for Public Opinion Research in Central Asia
The Central Asia Barometer (CAB) is one of the most active opinion polling institutions in Central Asia. It conducts large-scale surveys in all...
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Soft power tools in Central Asia: towards a closer relationship with France
Currently, France and the Central Asian countries are not limited to cooperation solely in the field of trading fossil fuels. For the further...
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Europe-Central Asia Relations New Connectivity Frameworks
This book addresses the current state of economic and political development within Central Asia and the importance of European countries and...
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Performative Heterosexuality: A Gay Researcher Doing Fieldwork in Central Asia
This chapter explores the challenges faced by a foreign gay researcher in Central Asia. Drawing on personal experiences, the author reflects on the...
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Making Sense of Central Asia Sources of Epistemic Uncertainty
Central Asia is in flux, and so are the perspectives and angles of intellectual inquiry, as are the modes of and approaches to the scientific...
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The 2019 European Union Strategy on Central Asia: Future Challenges
This study addresses the key challenges for the future of EU-Central Asia relations after the 2019 EU Strategy on Central Asia and provides...
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Digital Citizen Activism in Central Asia: Beyond Contestation and Cooperation
The rise of digital activism in the Arab Spring and Euromaidan demonstrated the significance of social media and new technologies in mobilizing civil...
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Human Rights in Central Asia—Between Internationalization and Nation-Building
Human rights education and knowledge dissemination in Central Asia have been develo** since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The countries in the...
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Human Rights in Central Asia: Challenges and Perspectives
Ever since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, “human rights” has been a contentious term in the states of post-Soviet Central Asia...
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General Trends in Gender Inequality in Post-Soviet Central Asia
The downfall of the Soviet Union induced an extraordinary social and economic transition in the Central Asian countries. Although women in Central...
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Assessing Europe: Central Asia Connectivity Through Linkage and Leverage
The aim of this chapter is to analyze the relations between Europe and Central Asia in the aftermath of the USSR collapse, and to offer an overview...
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Central Asia and Southeast Asia Exploring the Dynamics of Greater Engagement
This book explores Central Asia’s relationship with Southeast Asia and ASEAN. It examines the “Southeast Asian vector” in the Central Asian...
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Russia’s Backyard: China and Central Asia after the Invasion of Ukraine
This chapter explores the complex geopolitical transformations occurring in Central Asia against the backdrop of Russia’s military intervention in...
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Development Aid in Central Asia: A “Chessboard” for Great Powers?
Central Asia, once part of the Soviet Union's southern belt, quickly became a focal point for competing interests and donor influence after gaining...