Re-Centring Central Asia

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

kurdish diaspora in central asia and caoucasus

در طول دو قرن گذشته و ظهور روسیه بعنوان قدرتی بزرگ در عرصه جهانی و شروع رقابت با سایر قدرت های بین المللی و منطقهای خصوصا با ایران و عثمانی این ئکشور تلاش کرده است تاد از جمعیت کردها در این کشورها در راستای منافع خود بهره برداری کند در قرون 18 و 19 بارها بخشی از کردها برعلیه امپراطوری عثمانی توسط این کشور مورد استفاده قرار گرفت خصوصا در جنگ های سال 1790تا 1798. این ججنگ ها م.جب شد که بخشی از کر...

Iran and Central Asia: Chances or Challenges?

The fall of Soviet Union and independence of republics of central Asia as well as South Caucasus have brought both chances and challenges for Iran. At first it seemed that Muslim republics, which broke from Soviet Union, might have brought great chances for Iran to promote her ideological claims and economic interests. Dreams of Islamic revolution in new independent central Asian republics invo...

Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia

Fall/Winter 2012 • volume xix, issue 1 Copyright © 2012 by the Brown Journal of World Affairs David Lewis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He has research interests in the areas of security, state-building, political change and conflict, with a particular regional focus on post-Soviet Central Asia. Dr. Lewis previously worked f...

Central Asia Grows Wobbly