Central Asia has become the battleground for the major struggles of the 21st century: radical Islam versus secularism, a
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Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the regional power balance as it transitions away
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Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia. It analyses t
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China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this
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How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik
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Ahmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, t
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Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent
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A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of
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