Bibliographies

• CEP General Resources on Islam, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

  Gender, Islam: Middle East, Central Asia, Azerbaijan
  Selected Bibliography of Literature in English
  Compiled by Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck

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• The Political Economy of War and Peace in Afghanistan
  By Barnett Rubin, 1999
  The 20-year old Afghan conflict has created an open war economy, affecting Afghanistan and surrounding areas. Not only has Afghanistan become the worldÍs largest opium producer and a center for arms dealing, but it supports a multi-billion dollar trade in goods smuggled from Dubai to Pakistan. Sustainable peace will require not just an end to fighting and a political agreement but a regional economic transformation that provides alternative forms of livelihood and promotes accountability.

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• ESSAYS ON CENTRAL ASIA by H.B. Paksoy

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• Politics of Compromise: the Tajikistan peace process
  Tajikistani and international authors examine the evolution and dynamics of the war and the peace process, as well as the ongoing challenge of post-conflict peacebuilding. Includes texts of main agreements, chronology of events and profiles of actors.
  

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• Recent Literature on Central Asia
• Current Publications on Central Asia
• Print Resources: Region Specific
• Central Asia Book Sellers and Directories

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  Publications of the Open Society Institute and Affiliates

• Introduction to the Tajikistan Peace Agreement
  By Barnett Rubin, 1998
• Iranian foreign policy toward Central Asia
  By Olivier Roy, 1998
  
• Mongolia in the 1990s: from Commissars to Capitalists?
  By Morris Rossabi, 1997

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  Commitee to Protect Journalists

• "Attacks on the Press in 2000" Asia and Central Europe
• Paradoxes in the Caucasus:
  A Report on Freedom of the Media in Azerbaijan and Armenia: Jan 1998
  Veteran journalist Nicholas Daniloff explores the maze of contradictions faced by independent journalists in Armenia and Azerbaijan, two Caucasian republics whose stated goal is to emulate Western democracies but must shed the legacy of Soviet-era attitudes and institutions..

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  Human Rights Watch/Helsinki

• Uzbekistan: Leaving No Witnesses: Uzbekistan's Campaign Against Rights Defenders March 2000
• Tajikistan: Freedom of Expression Still Threatened November 1999
• Kazakhstan: Freedom of the Media and Political Freedoms in the Prelude to the 1999 Elections October 1999
• Uzbekistan: Class Dismissed: Discriminatory Expulsions of Muslim Students October 1999
• Azerbaijan: Impunity for Tourture August 1999
• 'Tajikistan, Leninbad Crackdown in the North' April 1998

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  The Center for Post-Soviet Studies

• Civil War in Tajikistan: Causes, Developments and Prospects for Peace by Sergei Gretsky
• The Conflict in Tajikistan: Questions of Regionalism by Davlat Khudonazar
• Religion: The Pillar of Society, by Qadi Akbar Turajonzoda
• Islam in Central Asia by Davlat Khudonazar
• Tajikistan: The Last Gamble , by Sergei V. Gretsky
• The Role of the OCSE in the Peace Process of Tajikistan , by Olivier Roy
• An overview of the Fergana Valley , by Douglas Goudie
• Fergana Valley, My Native Kyrgyz South , by Sovetbek Toktomyshev and Vyacheslav Shapovalov
• Regionalism in Tajikistan: Its Impact on the Fergana Valley by M.A. Olimov and S.K. Olimova
• The Fergana Valley: A View From Uzbekistan , by Rafik Saifulin

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  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Armenia's choice
• Until there are no more trees, on Armenia
• Malicious Mapmaking, on Azerbaijan
• A Kind of Prosperity on Turkmenistan
• Tamerlane vs. Marx on Uzbekistan
• The Transcaucasus: Blood Ties

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  Recent articles, speeches and publications

• The Cyber Caravan Johns Hopkins SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
• Tajikistan: Horizons of the Present and for the Future Remarks by H.E. Academician Talbak Nazarov, Foreign Minister
  Minister of The Republic of Tajikistan, New York
  At the Asia Society, September 30, 1998
• Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Caspian Energy Basin Diplomacy
  At the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 06 1998.
  Summary of remarks
• Summer 1998, The Legal Regulation of NGOs - Central Asia at a Crossroads
  Scott Horton and Alla Kazakina
• Istanbul, May, 1998: A Tale of Two Seas: The Energy Future of the Caspian and Black Seas: Energy Security Issues in the Caspian and Black Sea Regions
  Robert Priddle, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (PDF file)
• Challenges Facing the Transition Economies of Central Asia:
  (Remarks given by Michael Camdessus, Managing Director IMF,at a conference on "Challenges to Economies in Transition", Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic - May 27, 1998)
• "An Islamic Enigma Rises in Central Asia"
  Christian Science Monitor, April 14th 1998
• Caspian Sea Oil Riches: A mixed Blessing
  by Erjan Kurbanov and Barri Sanders, Pubd. Feb 1998
  This paper is one in a series of Occasional Papers in the Center for International Development and Conflict Management's (CIDCM) Monograph Series. It stems from the Partners in Conflict: Building Bridges to Peace in the Transcaucasus Project.
• U.S. Policy Toward the Caucasus
  Testimony before the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the Senate
  Appropriations Committee, Washington, DC, March 31, 1998

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  Suggested Audio Visual Resurces

• NPR Morning Edition. May 22, 1998 Water Usage V
  -- In the last of a five-part series on fresh water shortages, NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Uzbekistan, where one of the largest inland seas -- the Aral of Central Asia -- is suffering massive degradation. (8:32)
  Requires the free RealPlayer version 5.0.

• NPR Weekend Edition. May 3, 1998 WHITHER MONGOLIA?
  US Secretary of State Madeline Albright has completed her tour of the far East, with stops in three major countries, China, Japan and Korea, and one nation small in population, but strategically significant: Mongolia. Liane speaks with Christopher Atwood, professor of Mongolian Studies at the University of Indiana, about the political history of the country situated between China and Russia, and examines why Albright thought it so importa nt to make a special stop there.

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  Other Sources
  

• Central Asia and Caucasus Update
  A monthly update on news and events on conflicts in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, published by the Center for Political and Strategic Studies
• 'Rich in Resources, Turkmenistan Fights To Shed Stagnation of Its Soviet Legacy'
  Christian Science Monitor, Friday August 29, 1997 Edition
• Central Asia Monitor, A bi-monthly magazine, ON-LINE SUPPLEMENT
• Bibliographies for Mongolia
• Azerbaijan: The Pathfinder -- a bibliographic guide
• Russian and CIS peace enforcement in Tajikistan
• Russia in the Transcaucasus, or Democracy in a State of Emergency
• Guide to Scholars of the History and Culture of Central Asia by John Schoeberlein-Engel
• Muslims and Communists vie for Power in Tajikistan, by Iraj Bashiri
  
• Russian and CIS peace enforcement in Tajikistan
• Race, Religion, Ethnicity and Economics in Central Asia
• Eastview Publications
• "Russian and CIS peace enforcement in Tajikistan" by Iver B. Neumann and Sergey V. Solodovnik

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  Various Articles by H.B. Paksoy

• Who is H.B. Paksoy?
• SUN IS ALSO FIRE -- A fictional piece on Central Asia
• Basmachi Movement From Within: Account of Zeki Velidi Togan