CESR
Central Eurasian Studies Review
Publication of the Central Eurasian Studies Society
ISSN 1538-5043 (Print)
ISSN 1543-7817 (Electronic)
Contents Arranged by Section
Perspectives
Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2009
Women’s Studies and Gender Studies in Central Asia: Are We Talking to One Another?, Marianne Kamp [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2008
A Petroglyph from Tamgaly, Kenneth Lymer [pdf]
“Theory, Like Mist on Glasses…”: A Response to Laura Adams, Edward J. Lazzerini [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2008
Can We Apply Postcolonial Theory to Central Eurasia? Laura Adams [pdf]
Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2006
What Jadidism Was, and What It Wasn’t: The Historiographical Adventures of a Term, Adeeb Khalid [pdf]
Theme Section: Knowledge-Making about Central Eurasia
Comparative Perspectives on Central Asia and the Middle East in Social Anthropology and the Social Sciences (Part 2 of 2), Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek [pdf]
Viewing Kyrgyz Politics through “Orientalist” Eyes, Ali F. İğmen [pdf]
Reflections on a Central Eurasian Model: A Foucauldian Reply to Barfield on the Historiography of Ethno-Nationalisms, Şener Aktürk [pdf]
First Annual Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social Anthropology: Anthropology of the State — the State of Anthropology, David Gullette [pdf]
Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 2006
Islamist Trends in the Northern Caucasus, Laurent Vinatier [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2005
Comparative Perspectives on Central Asia and the Middle East in Social Anthropology and the Social Sciences (Part 1 of 2), Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
Afghanistan is Not the Balkans: Ethnicity and its Political Consequences from a Central Asian Perspective, Thomas Barfield, [pdf]
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]
Research Reports
Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2009
The Silk Route In Kashmir: Preliminary Research Findings, Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra [pdf]
Ethnic Russians Converting to Islam in Tatarstan: Challenging the Status Quo?, Matthew Derrick [pdf]
Nineteenth Century Kazak Correspondence with Russian Authorities: Morphemic Analysis and Historical Contextualization, Talant Mawkanuli and Virginia Martin [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2008
A New “Frontier Thesis” for the Northwest Chinese Borderland? The Reinvention of Xinjiang from a Place of Chinese Exile to a Land of Opportunity, Amy Kardos [pdf]
Community Governance and State Building in Rural Afghanistan, Jennifer Brick [pdf]
Historiography of Local and Regional Studies in Western Kazakhstan: An Alternative to National History? Uyama Tomohiko [pdf]
A Research Note on Mass-Market Islamic Literature in Russia and Central Asia, Allen J. Frank [pdf]
Archival Research in Kyrgyzstan, Akiyama Tetsu [pdf]
Conducting Interviews with Labor Migrants in Moscow, Asel Doolotkeldieva [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2008
Education of Ethnic Minorities: Between State Policy, Ethnic Framing, and Individual Strategies, Olivier Ferrando [pdf]
Adventures of a Foreign Historian in Kazakhstan, Sarah Cameron [pdf]
Volume 6, Number 1/2, Fall 2007
Writing the Dostumname: Field Research With an Uzbek Warlord in Afghan Turkistan, Brian Glyn Williams [pdf]
The Turkmen in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Persian Chronicles, Arash Khazeni [pdf]
Foreign Direct Investment in the Caucasus and Central Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Sectoral Patterns and Source Countries, Serkan Yalcin [pdf]
The Relationship between the Kyrgyz SSR and the Center in the Middle Khrushchev Period (1957-61) Based on Materials from Four Archives in Moscow and Bishkek, Chida Tetsuro [pdf]
Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2006
Trans-Caspian Pipelines and Implications for Security in the Caspian Region, Taleh Ziyadov [pdf]
Internationalization of Higher Education in Kyrgyzstan: Three Potential Problems, Martha C. Merrill [pdf]
External Labor Migration of Kyrgyzstan’s Indigenous Population and Its Socio-Economic Consequences, Ulan Ergeshbaev [pdf]
International Broadcasting to Central Asia: The Voice of Reason or Opposition? Navbahor Imamova [pdf]
Methodological Problems in the Studies of Varnish Miniatures of Uzbekistan, Ravshan Fatchullaev [pdf]
Discourse on Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Buryatia, Tatyana D. Skrynnikova and Darima D. Amogolonova [pdf]
Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 2006
The Impact of the Asian Development Bank on Educational Policy Formation in Kazakhstan, Jazira Asanova [pdf]
Georgian Connections in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911, Iago Gocheleishvili [pdf]
Selected Papers from the 2005 CESS Conference
Instructional Language, National Identity, and Higher Education in Rural Kyrgyzstan: The Debate at At-Bashy, Alan J. DeYoung [pdf]
Central Asia’s Restrictive Media System, Olivia Allison [pdf]
Political Islam in Southern Kazakhstan: Hizb ut-Tahrir, Emmanuel Karagiannis [pdf]
The Kazakhs in the Muslim Rebellions of 1864-1865, Jin Noda [pdf]
Allegiance to Tsar and Allah: Crimean Tatars in the Russian Empire, 1783-1853, Kelly O’Neill [pdf]
Sleeping with the Enemy: Exogamous Marriage in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Kathryn Johnston [pdf]
Report on the State of Library Conditions in Uzbekistan, Victoria Spain [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2005
The Kyrgyz in Western Travel Books of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Cholpon Turdalieva [pdf]
Selected Papers from the 2005 CESS Conference
Central Asians in Russia: Navigating Multiethnicity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Urban Worlds, Jeff Sahadeo [pdf]
An Uyghur Meshrep Dichotomy, Dilber Kahraman Thwaites [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
The Keir Mi'raj: Islamic Storytelling and the Picturing of Tales, Christiane Jacqueline Gruber [pdf]
Central Asian Encounters of the Middle East: Nationalism, Islam, and Post-Coloniality in al-Azhar, Alima Bissenova [pdf]
Surveying Risk in Kazakh Agriculture: Experiences and Observations, Olaf Heidelbach [pdf]
Selected Papers from the 2004 CESS Conference
Irregular Labor Migration from Central Asia to the United States, Saltanat Sulaimanova [pdf]
Missionary Encounters in Kyrgyzstan: Challenging the National Ideal, Mathijs Pelkmans [pdf]
Banquets, Grant-Eaters and the Red Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet Georgia, Florian Mühlfried [pdf]
Mongols, Kazakhs, and the Mongolian Territorial Identity: Competing Trajectories of Nationalization, Alexander C. Diener [pdf]
Power, Influence and Stability: The Unified Energy Systems of Russia in the Southern Tier FSU, Theresa Sabonis-Helf [pdf]
Institutional Reforms in Kyrgyzstan, Mahabat Baimyrzaeva [pdf]
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]
Reviews and Abstracts
Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2006
Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Reviewed by Matthew J. Payne [pdf]
Kahar Barat, trans., ed., The Uygur-Turkic Biography of the Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang, Ninth and Tenth Chapters. Reviewed by James A. Millward [pdf]
Valery Tishkov, Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society. Reviewed by Michael A. Reynolds [pdf]
Georgi M. Derluguian, Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-Systems Biography. Reviewed by Rebecca Gould [pdf]
Stephen F. Jones, Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy 1883-1917. Reviewed by Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. [pdf]
Irina Babich and Akhmet Yarlykapov, Islamskoe vozrozhdenie v sovremennoi Kabardino-Balkarii: perspektivy i posledstviia. Reviewed by Alexander Knysh [pdf]
Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, Les Russes du Kazakhstan: identitiés nationales et nouveaux états dans l’espace post-soviétique. Reviewed by Jeff Sahadeo [pdf]
Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling, eds., Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security, and Development. Reviewed by Agnieszka Paczynska [pdf]
Alexander Cooley, Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States and Military Occupations. Reviewed by Kevin D. Jones [pdf]
Tigran Martirosyan and Silvia Maretti, Scholars’ Guide to Washington, D.C. for Central Asian and Caucasus Studies: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Reviewed by James A. Millward [pdf]
Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 2006
Lena Jonson, Vladimir Putin and Central Asia: The Shaping of Russian Foreign Policy. Reviewed by David Rivera [pdf]
Sally Cummings, ed., Power and Change in Central Asia. Reviewed by Daniel Zaretsky [pdf]
Anita Sengupta, Frontiers into Borders: The Transformation of Identities in Central Asia. Reviewed by Adrienne Edgar [pdf]
Feride Acar and Ayşe Güneş-Ayata, Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey. Reviewed by Zohreh Ghavamshahidi [pdf]
Kira van Deusen, Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia. Reviewed by Margaret Mills [pdf]
Feroz Ahmad, Turkey: The Quest for Identity. Reviewed by Tolga Koker [pdf]
George Lane, Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran. Reviewed by Scott Levi [pdf]
Alisher Ilkhamov and Liudmila Zhukova, eds., Etnicheskii Atlas Uzbekistana. Reviewed by Shoshana Keller [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2005
Colette Harris, Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan. Reviewed by Najam Abbas [pdf]
Willard Sunderland, Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe. Reviewed by Marianne Kamp [pdf]
Hasan B. Paksoy, Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History. Reviewed by Nathan Light [pdf]
Edward Schatz, Modern Clan Politics: The Power of “Blood” in Kazakhstan and Beyond. Reviewed by Virginia Martin [pdf]
Will Prentice, Before the Revolution: A 1909 Recording Expedition in the Caucasus and Central Asia by the Gramophone Company. Reviewed by Tanya Merchant [pdf]
Rafis Abazov, Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan. Reviewed by Begench Karaev [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret, Consequences of Creating a Market Economy. Reviewed by Sharon Eicher [pdf]
Glenn R. Mack and Joseph Coleman Carter, Crimean Chersonesos: City, Museum, and Environs. Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb [pdf]
Scott C. Levi, The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900. Reviewed by Peter B. Golden [pdf]
Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath, The End of Nomadism? Society, State and the Environment in Inner Asia. Reviewed by Seth Singleton [pdf]
K. Warikoo and Dawa Norbu, eds., Ethnicity and Politics in Central Asia. Reviewed by Shahram Akbarzadeh [pdf]
Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2004
Anke von Kügelgen, Ashirbek 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]
Conferences and Lecture Series
Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2009
Workshop on Oral History of Tajikistan, OSCE Academy, by Olivier Ferrando [pdf]
Two Conferences on Bukharan Jews in Israel, by Zeev Levin [pdf]
Understanding International Security in the 21st Century, by Muharrem Ekşi [pdf]
Eurasian Perspectives — In Search of Alternatives, by Suchandana Chatterjee [pdf]
International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies: Past, Present, and Future, Timur Dadabaev and Güljanat Kurmangalieva Ercilasun [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2008
Family and the State in Chinggisid and Post-Chinggisid Central Eurasia, by Virginia Martin [pdf]
Mobility and Governability in Central Asia: An International Conference, by Nile Green [pdf]
The Fortieth National Convention of the AAASS, by Sean Pollock [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2008
Reconstructing the House of Culture, by Ali İğmen [pdf]
Russia and Islam in the Archives of Eurasia: An International Workshop, by Sean Pollock [pdf]
Central Asian Studies: History, Politics, and Society, by Allen Frank [pdf]
Relations between Turkey and Central Asia: Expectations and Foresights, by Aslan Yavuz Şir [pdf]
Global Migration: New Dynamics, Strategies, and Visions in the EU and its Neighborhood, by Hayriye Kahveci [pdf]
Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches, by Sean Pollock [pdf]
Volume 6, Number 1/2, Fall 2007
The Eurasian World: History, Present, Prospects, by Aigerim Shilibekova [pdf]
Eurasian Women and Self-Reliance: Religion and Education in the Contemporary World, by Ali İğmen [pdf]
IFEAC Regional Seminar: History, Politics and Culture of Identities in Central Asia, by Olivier Ferrando [pdf]
Central Asia: Sharing Experiences and Prospects. The Tenth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, by Pınar Akçalı [pdf]
Central Eurasia at the 38th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), by Ayşe Çolpan Kavuncu [pdf]
The Roads of Pilgrimage (Hajj, Ziyarat) between Central Asia and the Hejaz, by Stéphane Dudoignon [pdf]
Central Asian Workshop for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students, by Madeleine Reeves and Olivier Ferrando [pdf]
The Eighth Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Compiled by Daniel Schafer [pdf]
Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2006
Workshop on the Social Dimensions of Understanding Illness and Healing in Islamic Societies from Africa to Central Asia, Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Hanne Schönig [pdf]
International Conference on Problems and Success Factors in Business: Perspectives from Emerging Markets and Transition Economies III, İbrahim Keleş and Gülnaz Baltabaeva [pdf]
Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 2006
International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources, Jun Sugawara, Yasushi Shinmen, and James Millward [pdf]
The International Workshop on Privatization, Liberalization and the Emergence of Private Farms in Former Soviet Countries, Ayal Kimhi [pdf]
2005 Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference, Jennifer Taynen [pdf]
Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective, Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi [pdf]
The VIIth Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Sebastian Peyrouse [pdf]
Energy Program Asia Conferences: Challenges of Post-Soviet Transition in Kazakhstan; Security of Energy Supply in China, India, South Korea and the European Union: Possibilities and Impediments, Lisa Daniels [pdf]
The 11th Annual Central and Inner Asian Seminar (CIAS), Duishon Shamatov and Bolor Legjeem [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2005
IFEAC Regional Conference, “Tengrism as a New Factor in the Construction of Identity, Marlène Laruelle [pdf]
Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Cristina Cesàro, Rachel Harris, and Joanne N. Smith [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
The Eleventh Annual Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) Conference, Nicole Willock [pdf]
Seminar on Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and the CIS, Stéphane A. Dudoignon [pdf]
Central Eurasia in Amsterdam: Three Conference Reports, Babak Rezvani [pdf]
Multilateral Organizations in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Indra Øverland [pdf]
Workshop on Turkmenistan, Paul Bergne [pdf]
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]
Educational Resources and Developments
Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2009
Introducing “Online Histories of Central Asia”: A Teaching Resource for Central Asian Studies from the Social Science Research Council, Shoshana Keller [pdf]
Why Central Eurasian Studies is Good for Sociology, Sarah Amsler [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2008
Humanities in the Plural: The Aga Khan Humanities Project and Central Asian Higher Education, Chad D. Thompson [pdf]
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2008
Culturally Relevant Extensive Reading in Tajikistan, Lori Fredricks and Valentina Sobko [pdf]
Volume 6, Number 1/2, Fall 2007
Central Eurasian Studies in France, Sébastien Peyrouse [pdf]
Opportunities and Obstacles for Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, Edward Schatz [pdf]
Enhance Your Teaching of Central Eurasia with Images from Art Museum Collections on the Internet, Daniel C. Waugh [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2005
Central Eurasia Across the Curriculum and Beyond Institutional Walls: A Tale from Real Life, Ali F. İğmen and Daniel C. Waugh [pdf]
Overview of Activities in Central Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, September 2000-Present, Kağan Arık [pdf]
Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2005
Using the Study of Eurasia in the Training of Military Professionals, Debora Sanders [pdf]
A New Course in the Economics of Central Asia at the University of Washington, George Wright and Haideh Salehi-Esfahani [pdf]
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]
In Memoriam (Tributes to CESS Honorary Members)
Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2009
Asom O'rinboev (1929-2009) [pdf]Volume 6, Number 1/2, Fall 2007
Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006) [pdf]
Boris Il'ich Marshak (1933-2006) [pdf]
Roziia Galievna Mukminova (1922-2007) [pdf]
Letters to the Editors
Volume 6, Number 1/2, Fall 2007 [pdf]
From the Editors
Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2006
To CESR Readers and Subscribers [pdf]
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2002
Editorial Introduction [pdf]
Issues of CESR
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