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Sustainable Energy in Central Asia
Transition Towards Renewable Energy Sources in Uzbekistan
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This book argues that sustainable energy development represents a new frontier for many transitional economies, including those countries that are well endowed with traditional energy resources, as exemplified by the case of Uzbekistan in Central Asia. The book highlights the challenges and issues …
Sustainable Energy in Central Asia
Transition Towards Renewable Energy Sources in Uzbekistan
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book argues that sustainable energy development represents a new frontier for many transitional economies, including those countries that are well endowed with traditional energy resources, as exemplified by the case of Uzbekistan in Central Asia. The book highlights the challenges and issues …
Xinjiang - China's Northwest Frontier
Av K. Warikoo
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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Xinjiang is the ‘pivot of Asia’, where the frontiers of China, Tibet, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia approach each other. The growing Uyghur demand for a separate homeland and continuing violence in Xinjiang have brought this region into the focus of national and international …
Sustainable Energy in Kazakhstan
Moving to cleaner energy in a resource-rich country
Av Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Richard Pomfret
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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Kazakhstan is rich in natural resources including coal, oil, natural gas and uranium and has significant renewable potential from wind, solar, hydro and biomass. In spite of this, the country is currently dependent upon fossil fuels with coal-fired plants accounting for 75% of total power …
Eurasia and India
Regional Perspectives
Av K. Warikoo
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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Eurasia has assumed importance in the post-Soviet period and the peoples of Siberia have distinctive historico-cultural similarities with the Indian Himalayas due to common traditions and Buddhist culture. The Eurasianism of Russia brings it closer to India in historico-cultural, political and …
Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Lessons not learned
Av Richard Auty, Indra de Soysa
Inbunden, 2005
1521 kr
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Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to a market economy by tracing the impact of natural resource endowment. The book examines the synergies between energy-rich and …
Caspian
Politics, Energy and Security
Häftad, 2006
837 kr
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The Caspian redefines a Caspian debate long characterized by one-sided and politically motivated analyses and, at times, fantastic reporting. Bringing together a range of influential voices from academia, the media, the oil industry, civil service, the military and diplomatic corps, this book …
Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Lessons not learned
Av Richard Auty, Indra de Soysa
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to a market economy by tracing the impact of natural resource endowment. The book examines the synergies between energy-rich and …
Post-Soviet Decline of Central Asia
Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital
Häftad, 2006
897 kr
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Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) in the past decade, and the turn of these states towards despotism.
Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia
Science between Marx and the Market
Av Sarah Amsler
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for …
Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin
The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia
Av Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006. This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the oil …
Turkmenistan's Foreign Policy
Positive Neutrality and the consolidation of the Turkmen Regime
Inbunden, 2008
2512 kr
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Turkmenistan, an independent nation since 1991, is a strategically important Central Asian state. This book covers the most significant period of the establishment of the Turkmen political regime. At the core of this book is the Doctrine of Positive Neutrality, which, from 1995 onwards, constituted …
Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia
Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism
Häftad, 2012
750 kr
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This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without some of the neo-liberal reforms recommended by the "Washington Consensus" and with an authoritarian presidency, Uzbekistan, the largest of …
Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia
Science between Marx and the Market
Av Sarah Amsler
Häftad, 2011
750 kr
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Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for …
Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin
The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia
Av Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
750 kr
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The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006. This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the oil …
Religion and Security in South and Central Asia
Av K. Warikoo
Inbunden, 2010
2512 kr
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Religion and security play an important role in traditional societies. In South and Central Asia, traditional and moderate Islamic beliefs and practices with strong indigenous and Sufi content are diametrically opposed to radical Wahabi and Taliban brands of Islam intolerant of other cultures and …
Muslim Reformist Political Thought
Revivalists, Modernists and Free Will
Av Sarfraz Khan
Häftad, 2010
386 kr
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There are two main trends distinguishable amongst Muslim reformists - revivalists and modernists. This book charts and analyses the main trends of Muslim reformist political thought in Bukhara. It is the first to utilize original sources preserved in Soviet archives that were previously …
Conflict and Peace in Eurasia
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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Focusing on a range of Eurasian conflicts, including Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, this book offers contemporary perspectives on the ongoing conflicts in the Eurasia, with an emphasis on the attempts towards peace.The book brings into focus how various factors such as ethnicity, …
Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia
The Soviet Legacy
Av Sevket Akyildiz, Richard Carlson
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The …
Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy
Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev era
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era. This book delves into the specific Eurasia-centric narratives through which the regime, headed by Nursultan Nazarbaev, imagined the …
Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia
Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism
Inbunden, 2008
2512 kr
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This book examines the economic reforms and material progress made since the Central Asian republics became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without some of the neo-liberal reforms recommended by the "Washington Consensus" and with an authoritarian presidency, Uzbekistan, the largest of …
National Identities in Soviet Historiography
The Rise of Nations under Stalin
Av Harun Yilmaz
Inbunden, 2015
2586 kr
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Under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership of the USSR, Soviet national identities with historical narratives were constructed. These constructions envisaged how nationalities should see their imaginary common past, and millions of people defined themselves according to them. This book explains how and …
Leadership and Authority in Central Asia
The Ismaili Community in Tajikistan
Inbunden, 2014
2826 kr
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This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan. The history of this region has commonly been explored through the lens of the major superpowers who competed over its territory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including …
Sustainable Development in Central Asia
Av Shirin Akiner, Jon Hay m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
3065 kr
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This book is the result of a pioneering conference held in Ulaan Baatar in September 1994. The first Conference on the Sustainable Development of Central Asia brought together government officials, development professionals, academics, activists and religious representatives from Central, South and …
Tajikistan
The Trials of Independence
Av Shirin Akiner, Mohammad-Reza Djalili m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2586 kr
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Since its independence in 1991 Tajikistan has suffered a painful series of political crises followed by a civil war, still continuing, whose repercussions extend far beyond its borders. This work examines the causes of the turmoil, and analyses, through the case of Tajikistan, social and political …
Caspian
Politics, Energy and Security
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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The Caspian redefines a Caspian debate long characterized by one-sided and politically motivated analyses and, at times, fantastic reporting. Bringing together a range of influential voices from academia, the media, the oil industry, civil service, the military and diplomatic corps, this book …
Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State In Central Asia
Av Michal Biran
Inbunden, 1997
2586 kr
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Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. This boof recounts the dynastic convolutions and power struggle leading up to his rebellion and subsequent events.
Central Asia
Aspects of Transition
Inbunden, 2003
3156 kr
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The five central Asian States of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan stand at the crossroads of world civilization. Influenced by South Asia, Iran, China and Russia, this region which has recently burst onto the world stage once again, guards a distinct identity. This collection by …
Central Asia
Aspects of Transition
Häftad, 2003
877 kr
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The five central Asian States of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan stand at the crossroads of world civilization. Influenced by South Asia, Iran, China and Russia, this region which has recently burst onto the world stage once again, guards a distinct identity. This collection by …
Life of Alimqul
A Native Chronicle of Nineteenth Century Central Asia
Inbunden, 2003
2666 kr
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This work studies a narrative devoted to the history of the Kokand Khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries, controlling territory equal to continental western Europe, until it was conquered by the Russian Empire in 1876. This unique …
