the relationship between moscow and the peripheral republics of the soviet :union: has been a controversial issue. the complicatedness and implications of this relationship was to a degree recognized during the soviet era. yet it was after the collapse of the communist regime that its real scope and significance were revealed, especially in central asian and caucasian republics where a variety ...

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...

BACKGROUND In the wake of collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has transformed into a key hub along the Afghan opiates trafficking routes. Around 30 percent of the heroin manufactured in Afghanistan is estimated to be smuggled through Central Asian republics in its way to booming drug markets in Russia and Eastern Europe. METHODS Building upon available evidence and extensive fieldwork ...

this paper examines the evolution of nationalism and national identity in europe and how it was transferred to and propagated in central asia by the soviets. it further examines the challenge facing central asian peoples in the post-soviet era; namely in defining a new national identity for themselves as new independent nation-states in the age of globalization. the paper attempts to demonstrat...

As an immediate form of modern ethnic and ethnocultural relations, we can refer to interethnic marriage. Taking into account the current polyethylene situation in countries Central Asia, it is clear that cross-cultural relations these regions have a special place. The purpose article determine whether marriage Asia contributes transformation family model changes many traditional ideas. Using st...