Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His recent books include Transcontinental Silk Road Strategies (2019), Chinese, Japanese and Korean In-roads into Central Asia (2019), Japan in Central Asia (2016) and Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (2015).

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• 1. Towards Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations 2. Critical Assessment of Contemporary Approaches to Central Asia 3. Manipulating Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Contrasting Political Narratives and Public Recollections in Central Asia 4. Emerging Japan-EU strategic partnership and its implications for Central Asia 5. De-securitizing the "Silk Road": Uzbekistan’s cooperation agenda with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea in the Post-Karimov Era 6. Connectivity, Energy and Decolonization: Uzbekistan’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia, China, South Korea and Japan 7. Decolonizing the Afghanistan-Central Asian relations Concluding remarks: Seven points for decolonizing agenda setting in Central Asia

Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His recent books include Transcontinental Silk Road Strategies (2019), Chinese, Japanese and Korean In-roads into Central Asia (2019), Japan in Central Asia (2016) and Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (2015).

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• 1. Towards Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations 2. Critical Assessment of Contemporary Approaches to Central Asia 3. Manipulating Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Contrasting Political Narratives and Public Recollections in Central Asia 4. Emerging Japan-EU strategic partnership and its implications for Central Asia 5. De-securitizing the "Silk Road": Uzbekistan’s cooperation agenda with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea in the Post-Karimov Era 6. Connectivity, Energy and Decolonization: Uzbekistan’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia, China, South Korea and Japan 7. Decolonizing the Afghanistan-Central Asian relations Concluding remarks: Seven points for decolonizing agenda setting in Central Asia

Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His recent books include Transcontinental Silk Road Strategies (2019), Chinese, Japanese and Korean In-roads into Central Asia (2019), Japan in Central Asia (2016) and Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (2015).

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• 1. Towards Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations 2. Critical Assessment of Contemporary Approaches to Central Asia 3. Manipulating Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Contrasting Political Narratives and Public Recollections in Central Asia 4. Emerging Japan-EU strategic partnership and its implications for Central Asia 5. De-securitizing the "Silk Road": Uzbekistan’s cooperation agenda with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea in the Post-Karimov Era 6. Connectivity, Energy and Decolonization: Uzbekistan’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia, China, South Korea and Japan 7. Decolonizing the Afghanistan-Central Asian relations Concluding remarks: Seven points for decolonizing agenda setting in Central Asia