Volume 16, Issue 2, 2015

CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS
English Edition Journal of Social and Political Studies
Volume 16, Issue 2, 2015
IN THIS ISSUE:

REGIONAL INTEGRATION

Dmitri Malyshev. THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION: DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

Abdurafi Aslamov. DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS FOR THE INTEGRATION PROCESSES WITHIN THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION: A TAJIKISTAN CASE STUDY

GEOPOLITICS AND REGIONAL SECURITY

Feruz Bafoev. MID-TERM STIMULI, BASIC PRINCIPLES, AND READJUSTMENTS: AMERICA IN CENTRAL ASIA

Farkhod Tolipov. MICRO-GEOPOLITICAL SEMIOTICS OF CENTRAL ASIA: “CROSSROADS” AND “BRIDGES”

Evgeny Polyakov. STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND TERROR IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS IN THE 1990S-2000S

Tatyana Perga. THE KERCH TRAFFIC INTERCHANGE: A GEOPOLITICAL DIMENSION

REGIONAL ECONOMIES

Ilkin Aslanov. THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF BUDGET SPENDING IN AZERBAIJAN’S ECONOMY

Vladimir Paramonov, Alexei Strokov. THE CHINESE PRESENCE IN KAZAKHSTAN’S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

NATION-BUILDING

Firdous Dar. CONTEXTUALIZING CIVIL SOCIETY: A KYRGYZSTAN CASE STUDY

Inomzhon Bobokulov. STATE-BUILDING IN AFGHANISTAN: DECENTRALIZATION VS. CENTRALIZATION

ETHNICITY AND ETHNIC RELATIONS

Botagoz Rakisheva. CERTAIN ASPECTS OF ETHNICITY OF THE KAZAKHS OF CHINA

Oleg Bubenok. THE ADYGHE FACTOR IN THE ETHNOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS

MASS MEDIA

Chinara Sultanalieva, Eric Freedman. PRESS COVERAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS IN KYRGYZSTAN AND THE ROLE OF ECO-NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The Special Feature section in the next three issues will discuss:

  • Central Eurasia: Politics Today
  • Central Eurasia: Religion in the Sociopolitical Context
  • Central Eurasia: Integration Processes

Contributors please use the following guidelines:

  • begin articles with a brief abstract of 300-500 words and keywords;
  • articles should be no less than 3,000 and no more than 6,000 words, including footnotes;
  • footnotes should be placed at the bottom of each page; if there are references to Internet resources, please give the author’s name, the name of the document, the website address, and the date it was made available, for example, available 2007-04-19;
  • quotations, names of authors and other information from English-language sources should be duplicated in brackets in the original language, that is, in English;
  • the article should be divided into sections, including an introduction and conclusion;
  • the author should include the following personal information: first name, last name, academic degree, place of work, position, city, country.

All articles accepted are published in Russian and English, in the Russian-language and English-language versions of the journal, respectively. The editorial board takes responsibility for translation of the articles.