CESR
Central Eurasian Studies Review
Publication of the Central Eurasian Studies Society
ISSN 1538-5043 (Print)
ISSN 1543-7817 (Electronic)
Contents arranged by Section (this is no longer being updated)
Perspectives
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
Afghanistan is Not the Balkans: Ethnicity and its Political
Consequences from a Central Asian Perspective, Thomas
Barfield
Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2004
Eurasian Studies in Turkey, Ayşe Güneş-Ayata,
Hayriye Kahveci, Işık Kuşçu [html]
[pdf]
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2004
The Complexity of Central Eurasia, Robert M. Cutler [html]
[pdf]
Mysterious Eurasia: Thoughts in Response to Dr. Schoeberlein,
Doulatbek Khidirbekughli [html]
[pdf]
The Distinctive Factors of Central Eurasia: A Response to
Professor Gleason, Alexander Lehrman [html]
[pdf]
Towards Rethinking Geopolitics, Mehdi Parvizi Amineh [html]
[pdf]
The Specific and the General in Economic Policy Analysis and
Advice, Richard Pomfret [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 2003
A View from Cyberspace: The Silk Road Atlas of the Electronic
Cultural Atlas Initiative, Lewis R. Lancaster and Ruth Mostern
[html] [pdf]
Instructional Technology and Digital Asset Management: Implications
for the Scholarly Community, Anthony R. Bichel [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2003
Detours from Utopia on the Silk Road: Ethical Dilemmas of
Neoliberal Triumphalism, Morgan Y. Liu [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2003
The Centrality of Central Eurasia, Gregory Gleason [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 2002
Central Asian Studies in Bulgaria: Main Trends and Perspectives,
Vladimir Chukov and Roumiana Andreeva-Chukova [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2002
The "Barnaul School" of Central Asian Studies: A
Brief Review of Scientific Research in Barnaul Concerning Central
Asian Politics and International Relations, Vladimir Boyko
[html] [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2002
Setting the Stakes of a New Society, John Schoeberlein
[html] [pdf]
Libraries and CESS, Chris Murphy [html]
[pdf]
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Research Reports
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
Irregular Labor Migration from Central Asia to the United
States, Saltanat Sulaimanova
Missionary Encounters in Kyrgyzstan: Challenging the
National Ideal, Mathijs Pelkmans
Banquets, Grant-Eaters and the Red Intelligentsia in
Post-Soviet Georgia, Florian Mühlfried
Mongols, Kazakhs, and the Mongolian Territorial Identity:
Competing Trajectories of Nationalization, Alexander
C. Diener
Power, Influence and Stability: The Unified Energy Systems
of Russia in the Southern Tier FSU, Theresa Sabonis-Helf
Institutional Reforms in Kyrgyzstan, Mahabat
Baimyrzaeva
The Keir Mi‘raj: Islamic Storytelling and the Picturing
of Tales, Christiane Jacqueline Gruber
Central Asian Encounters of the Middle East: Nationalism,
Islam, and Post-Coloniality in al-Azhar, Alima Bissenova
Surveying Risk in Kazakh Agriculture: Experiences and
Observations, Olaf Heidelbach
Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2004
Narrative of Migration and Kazakh Identity, Saulesh Yessenova
[html] [pdf]
Uzbek Communities in the Kyrgyz Republic and Their Relationship
to Uzbekistan, Matteo Fumagalli [html]
[pdf]
Politics and Public Policy in Post-Soviet Central Asia: The
Case of Higher Education Reform in Kyrgyzstan, Askat Dukenbaev
[html] [pdf]
The Soviet Policy of Economic Nationalization in Uzbekistan
and its Consequences, 1917-1940, Nadejda Ozerova [html]
[pdf]
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2004
State Decline in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Lawrence P.
Markowitz [html] [pdf]
Towards a Connection between Religion and Nationality in Central
Asia, Sébastien Peyrouse [html]
[pdf]
The Role of the Pilgrimage in Relations between Uzbekistan
and the Uzbek Community of Saudi Arabia, Bayram Balcı
[html] [pdf]
Volume 2, Number 3, Spring 2003
Market Reforms and Macroeconomic Performance in Uzbekistan,
Aydın A. Çeçen [html]
[pdf]
C. P. Skrine in Kashgaria, Daniel Waugh [html]
[pdf]
Difficulties of Conducting Field Research in the Caucasus
and Central Asia, Serkan Yalçın and İbrahim
Keleş [html] [pdf]
Research Conditions in Uzbekistan: Archival Access and Conditions
in Samarkand, Christine Evans [html]
[pdf]
Library Conditions in Uzbekistan, Shoshana Keller [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2003
Comparative Perceptions of Risk From Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan:
Preliminary Results and Proposed Research, Cynthia Werner,
Kathleen Purvis and Nurlan Ibraev [html]
[pdf]
Interviewing NGO Leaders in Bishkek, Sada Aksartova [html]
[pdf]
Bayanis Shajara-ye khorezmshahi and the Russian Conquest of
Khiva: An Essay on Historical Production, Ron Sela [html]
[pdf]
Typology of Traditional Culture of the Mongol-Speaking Peoples,
Tatyana D. Skrynnikova [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2003
Current Issues in the Study of Traditional Dwelling Space
of Mongol-speaking People, Marina Sodnompilova [html]
[pdf]
Ethnicity and Inequality Among Migrants in the Kyrgyz Republic,
Joseph Boots Allen [html]
[pdf]
Field Report on Oral and Archival Histories of Collectivization
in Uzbekistan, Russell Zanca [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 2002
Communal and Political Change in Central Asia: Some Preliminary
Findings, Paul Geiss [html]
[pdf]
Security Perception in Central Asia, Rafis F. Abazov [html]
[pdf]
Afghan Communities in Uzbekistan, Natalya Khan [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2002
Conceptions and Uses of "Victimhood" in Contemporary
Mongolia, Christopher Kaplonski [html]
[pdf]
Ongoing Archaeological Excavations in the Lower Don Region,
Russia, Jeannine Davis-Kimball [html]
[pdf]
Negotiating Inside/Outside in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Footnotes
from Field Research, Cengiz Surucu [html]
[pdf]
Shifting Social Networks in Post-Socialist Kazan, Helen
Faller [html] [pdf]
Network Community Creation in Kazakhstan, Elena G. Gayevskaya
[html] [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2002
Migrant Labor, Labor Rights, and the Eurasian Economic Community,
Roza Zhalimbetova and Gregory Gleason [html]
[pdf]
Azerbaijani Intellectuals during the Transition, Liamen
Rzayeva [html] [pdf]
The Local Perspective: Interviews with Sakha in the Viliui
River Region, Aileen A. Espiritu [html]
[pdf]
Recent Work in Archives in Uzbekistan and Russia, Adeeb
Khalid [html] [pdf]
Preparing and Conducting a Field Trip to Baku and Bishkek,
Jamilya Ukudeeva [html]
[pdf]
Soviet Census Resources, Lawrence W. Crissman [html]
[pdf]
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Reviews and Abstracts
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret,
Consequences of Creating a Market Economy. Reviewed by
Sharon Eicher
Glenn R. Mack and Joseph Coleman Carter,
Crimean Chersonesos: City, Museum, and Environs. Reviewed
by Charles C. Kolb
Scott C. Levi, The Indian Diaspora
in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900. Reviewed by
Peter B. Golden
Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath,
The End of Nomadism? Society, State and the Environment in Inner
Asia. Reviewed by Seth Singleton
K. Warikoo and Dawa Norbu, eds.,
Ethnicity and Politics in Central Asia. Reviewed by Shahram
Akbarzadeh
Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2004
Anke von Kügelgen, Agirbek Muminov, and Michael Kemper,
eds., Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol. 3:
Arabic, Persian and Turkic Manuscripts (15th-19th Centuries).
Reviewed by Devin DeWeese [html]
[pdf]
Daniel Brower, Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian
Empire. Reviewed by Gulnar Kendirbai [html]
[pdf]
Pauline Jones Luong, Institutional Change and Political
Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and
Pacts. Reviewed by Cengiz Surucu [html]
[pdf]
Boris Z. Rumer, ed., Central Asia and the New Global
Economy. Reviewed by Peter G. Laurens [html]
[pdf]
Roald Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower, eds., Islam and
Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat? Reviewed
by Vika Gardner [html]
[pdf]
Yuri Bregel, An Historical Atlas of Central Asia.
Reviewed by Nick Megoran [html]
[pdf]
George Kennan, Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals
of George Kennan. Reviewed by Thomas M. Barrett [html]
[pdf]
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2004
Mark Slobin, Afghanistan Untouched. Reviewed
by Rachel Harris [html]
[pdf]
Eric W. Sievers, The Post-Soviet Decline of Central
Asia: Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital. Reviewed
by Daniel Stevens [html]
[pdf]
Brian Glyn Williams, The Crimean Tatars: The Diaspora
Experience and the Forging of a Nation. Reviewed by Anna Oldfield
Senarslan [html] [pdf]
Bruce G. Privratsky, Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion
and Collective Memory. Reviewed by Pınar Akçalı
[html] [pdf]
Korkut A. Ertürk, ed., Rethinking Central Asia:
Non-Eurocentric Studies in History, Social Structure and Identity.
Reviewed by Stéphane Dudoignon [html]
[pdf]
Boris Rumer, ed., Central Asia: A Gathering Storm?
Reviewed by Michael Kaser [html]
[pdf]
Shoshana Keller, To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet
Campaign Against Islam in Central Asia, 1917-1941. Reviewed
by Walter Comins-Richmond [html]
[pdf]
Rafis Abazov, Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan.
Reviewed by Jamilya Ukudeeva [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 3, Spring 2003
Edward Harper Parker, A Thousand Years of the Tartars.
Reviewed by Azade-Ayşe Rorlich [html]
[pdf]
Balzhan Zhimbiev, History of the Urbanisation of
a Siberian City: Ulan-Ude. Reviewed by Robert Montgomery [html]
[pdf]
Olivier Roy, The New Central Asia: The Creation of
Nations. Reviewed by Roger D. Kangas [html]
[pdf]
Daniel Heradstveit, Democracy and Oil: The Case of
Azerbaijan. Reviewed by Hooman Peimani [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2003
Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia. Reviewed
by Alex Marshall [html]
[pdf]
Kemal H. Karpat, Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing
Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State.
Reviewed by Gerard J. Libaridian [html]
[pdf]
Sechin Jagchid, The Last Mongol Prince: The Life
and Times of Demchugdongrob, 1902-1966. Reviewed by David
Sneath [html] [pdf]
Erika Weinthal, State Making and Environmental Cooperation:
Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia.
Reviewed by Peter C. Bloch [html]
[pdf]
Mariam Iandieva and Adam Malsagov, eds. Ingushetiia
i Ingushi. Reviewed by Wolfgang Schlott [html]
[pdf]
J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies,
Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the
West. Reviewed by Colin Mackerras [html]
[pdf]
Sigrid Kleinmichel, Halpa in Choresm (Hwārazm)
und Ātin Āyi im Ferghanatal. Reviewed by Ildikó
Bellér-Hann [html]
[pdf]
Levon Abrahamian and Nancy Sweezy, eds., Armenia:
Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity. Reviewed by Robert L. Whiting
[html] [pdf]
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2003
Stéphane A. Dudoignon and Komatsu Hisao, eds.
Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia (Early Eighteenth
to Late Twentieth Centuries). Reviewed by Suchandana Chatterjee
[html] [pdf]
Mark R. Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and
the Collapse of the Soviet State. Reviewed by Kathleen E.
Smith [html] [pdf]
Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin, eds., A State
of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin.
Reviewed by Richard Sakwa [html]
[pdf]
Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Central Asia and Non-Chinese
Peoples of Ancient China. Reviewed by Stephen Chan [html]
[pdf]
Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in
Central Asia. Reviewed by Adeeb Khalid [html]
[pdf]
Natsuko Oka, Andrei Chebotarev, Erlan Karin, and Nurbolat
Masanov, The Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan.
Reviewed by Edward Schatz [html]
[pdf]
Sally Hovey Wriggins, Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim
on the Silk Road. Reviewed by Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
[html] [pdf]
Resul Yalcin, The Rebirth of Uzbekistan: Politics,
Economy and Society in the Post-Soviet Era. Abstract by Marianne
Kamp [html] [pdf]
Virginia Martin, Law and Custom in the Steppe: The
Kazakhs of the Middle Horde and Russian Colonialism in the Nineteenth
Century. Abstract by Peter B. Maggs [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 2002
Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations
and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Reviewed by
Tomasz Kamusella [html]
[pdf]
Jacob M. Landau and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Politics
of Language In the Ex-Soviet Muslim States. Reviewed by Sally
N. Cummings [html] [pdf]
Uradyn Bulag, The Mongols at China's Edge: History
and the Politics of National Unity. Reviewed by Timothy May
[html] [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2002
Larry P. Goodson, Afghanistan's Endless War: State
Failure, Regional Politics and the Rise of the Taliban. Reviewed
by Resul Yalcin [html]
[pdf]
The TOL Annual Survey 2001 CD-ROM. Abstract by Rafis Abazov
[html] [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2002
Bold, Bat-Ochir, Mongolian Nomadic Society: A Reconstruction
of the 'Medieval' History of Mongolia. Reviewed by Timothy
May [html] [pdf]
S. M. Prozorov, comp. and ed., Islam na territorii
byvshei Rossiiskoi imperii. Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' [Islam
on the territory of the former Russian Empire: An encyclopedic
dictionary]. Abstract by Aleksei A. Khismatulin with Daniel C.
Waugh [html] [pdf]
[Contents]
Conferences and Lecture Series
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
The Eleventh Annual Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) Conference,
Nicole Willock
Seminar on Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and
the CIS, Stéphane A. Dudoignon
Central Eurasia in Amsterdam: Three Conference Reports,
Babak Rezvani
Multilateral Organizations in the Caucasus and Central
Asia, Indra Øverland
Workshop on Turkmenistan, Paul Bergne
Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2004
The Tenth Annual Central and Inner Asian Seminar, Jennifer
Taynen [html] [pdf]
Nation-building in the Making: "Volga-Ural Studies"
Workshop, Gönül Pultar [html]
[pdf]
Workshop on Iran and Regional Developments, Bayram Sinkaya
[html] [pdf]
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2004
The Fourth Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies
Society, Virginia Martin [html]
[pdf]
Symposium: Customary Law (Adat Law) between State and Society:
Caucasus /Central Asia in Comparison to Other Regions of the Islamic
World, Michael Kemper and Maurus Reinkowski [html]
[pdf]
The 2003 Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics,
and Society Conference, Payam Foroughi, Kristian Alexander,
Christopher Patterson [html]
[pdf]
The 2003 AAASS Conference, Shoshana Keller [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 3, Spring 2003
Second METU Conference on International Relations, Isık
Kuşç and Hayriye Kahveci [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2003
New Games in Central Asia, Great and Small, Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek
[html] [pdf]
Eighth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian
Studies (ESCAS VIII), September 25-28, 2002, Bordeaux, France,
Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2003
Looking at the Colonizer, Ildikó Bellér-Hann
[html] [pdf]
Central Eurasian Studies Society Third Annual Conference
[html] [pdf]
Xinjiang / East Turkestan from a Long Perspective: Patterns
of the Region's Past and Present, James A. Millward [html]
[pdf]
A Clear and Present Danger: "Wahhabism" as a Rhetorical
Foil, Alexander Knysh [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 2002
First International METU Conference on International Relations,
Oktay F. Tanrisever [html]
[pdf]
Middle East History and Theory Conference and Central Asian
Studies, Patrick Wing [html]
[pdf]
Networks, Alignments and Factionalism in Today's Central Asia,
Ildikó Bellér-Hann [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2002
The Ninth Annual Indiana University Central Eurasian Studies
Conference, Kerry Cosby [html]
[pdf]
Middle East Studies Association 2001 Annual Meeting, Marianne
Kamp [html] [pdf]
"Abseits der Seidenstrasse": The Silk Road and Beyond:
Art and Culture from Central Asia in Berlin, Beate Eschment
[html] [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2002
The Heritage of Sasanian Iran, Stuart D. Sears [html]
[pdf]
Rethinking Social Science Research on the Developing World,
Morgan Liu, Edward Schatz and Carole McGranahan [html]
[pdf]
The Geopolitical and Economic Transitions in Eurasia,
Havva Karakas-Keles [html]
[pdf]
Reconceptualizing Central Asia: States and Societies in Formation,
Pauline Jones Luong and John Schoeberlein [html]
[pdf]
Second CESS Annual Conference [html]
[pdf]
[Contents]
Educational Resources and Developments
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
Using the Study of Eurasia in the Training of Military
Professionals, Debora Sanders
A New Course in the Economics of Central Asia at the
University of Washington, George Wright and Haideh Salehi-Esfahani
Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2004
Earth Odyssey: Uzbekistan. Using the Web to Connect American
High School and University Students with Personal Experiences
in Uzbekistan, Vika Gardner and Jeff Stanzler [html]
[pdf]
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2004
Teaching about Central Asia at Yeditepe University, Istanbul,
Nadir Devlet and Daniel C. Waugh [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 3, Spring 2003
Music of Central Asia at SOAS, Rachel Harris [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2003
Teaching Central Asian History in Japan: Some Practice and
Experience, Komatsu Hisao [html]
[pdf]
Uzbek Language Instruction: A New Textbook, William Dirks
[html] [pdf]
A Story of European Hammers and Central Asian Boulders: How
a Swiss Museum Exhibits High Asia, Philippe Forêt [html]
[pdf]
Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2003
Teaching Central Asian Politics in Comparative Perspective,
Henry E. Hale [html] [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 2002
The Challenge of Introducing Central Asia to Young Readers,
Daniel Waugh [html] [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2002
"Legal Systems of Islamic Countries" at Sofia University,
Vladimir Chukov [html]
[pdf]
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2002
Polishing the Mirror: A Teaching Unit on Central and Inner
Eurasia, Vika Gardner [html]
[pdf]
Teaching the Silk Road, Shoshana Keller [html]
[pdf]
"Silk Road Seattle", Daniel C. Waugh [html]
[pdf]
[Contents]
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