BOOK: Tbilisi - It's Complicated. By Data Chigholashvili, Nini Palavandishvili, Marike Splint

[onomatopee.net] Composed of artistic accounts that critically reflect on recent urban and social changes in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, this book unveils multifaceted perspectives on a city trying to negotiate its complex heritage, intensely contentious present and potential for the future. It also serves as an alternative guidebook to be explored in situ, or read from afar.

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Data (David) Chigholashvili works between social anthropology and contemporary art. His works are strongly related to the specificity of their contexts. Through direct commentary or subtle forms, he aims to present and question issues of the surroundings, while exploring connections between various disciplines and ways of expression.

Nini Palavandishvili is a curator based in Tbilisi. Nini researches social and political conditions and their interpretation in cultural production and contemporary art contexts. She is interested in artistic practices that find a language through which it is possible to speak about political and social matters.

Marike Splint is a theater maker from the Netherlands based in Los Angeles, specializing in performance in public space. Fascinated by the theme of belonging, she explores the relationship between people, places, and identity. She serves as a faculty member in the Department of Theater at UCLA.

Andrea Kalinová (visual artist) and Martin Zaicek (architect) have collaborated since 2011 as the initiative Abandoned (re)creation. Their work deals with the issue of derelict, abandoned or endangered architecture of the 20th century and its possible preservation by means of artistic interventions and alternative forms of protesting.
www.abandonedrecreation.com

Tigran Amiryan is an independent curator, contemporary art researcher with a PhD in Literary Studies. Tigran researches and writes about narrativization of both individual and collective memory in contemporary culture. He has presented lectures, exhibitions and public talks at different academic and arts institutions in Armenia, Georgia, Morocco, Russia, Tunisia, Ukraine.

Oleksandr Burlaka is an architect and artist based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he studied architecture. Oleksandr is interested in the connection between the vernacular and the modernist. His work includes research, collaborative art practices, and often considers architecture and its transformation in post-Soviet countries.

Tamuna Chabashvili is an artist based in Amsterdam and Tbilisi. Her practice revolves around the topics of tradition, pattern and voicelessness seen from the gender perspective. Mapping private stories, memories and questions into visual and tactile narratives, it is inspired by traditional artifacts and working methods based on textile.
www.pswar.org
supraofherown.wordpress.com

Data (David) Chigholashvili works between social anthropology and contemporary art. His works are strongly related to the specificity of their contexts. Through direct commentary or subtle forms, he aims to present and question issues of the surroundings, while exploring connections between various disciplines and ways of expression.
www.geoair.ge

Onno Dirker is an artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands. Sense of place, formed by a myriad of layers, lies at the heart of his work. His approach is phenomenological, never commencing from a set viewpoint. He is a co-founder of Atelier Veldwerk (Studio Fieldwork, Dirker-Luijters).
www.onnodirker.nl

Paula Durinová is a documentary filmmaker, photographer and journalist. Driven by the emotions of visuality, the focus of her storytelling is people and places that surround her. She mainly deals with topics concerning post-communist countries, social issues, spiritual life, mental borders and dreams or human imprints in seemingly dystopian lands.
www.pauladurinova.com

Christian van der Kooy studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His work consists of documentary photography and video essays. He is particularly interested in people’s interaction with their surroundings, the landscapes - spaces of coexistence and reciprocity, where a personal history generates cultural and social transformations.
www.christianvanderkooy.com

Lado Lomitashvili works between the differ­ent media of drawing, photography, artist’s books, sculpture and installation. In his abstract works, essential elements are architecture and product design. While working, he mostly looks at spaces from an architect’s perspective and creates site-specific installations.

Tamar Nadiradze is a visual artist. Through artistic research she explores and makes connections between social life and contemporary art, which she mainly turns into experimental publications and drawings. She is interested in topics connected to dialogue in social life as well as anthropology, mythology, psychology and gender.

Nini Palavandishvili is a curator based in Tbilisi. Nini researches social and political conditions and their interpretation in cultural production and contemporary art contexts. She is interested in artistic practices that find a language through which it is possible to speak about political and social matters.
www.geoair.ge

Lena Prents is a Belarusian independent art historian and curator based in Berlin. Her main areas of research are history of architecture, art and culture in Eastern Europe during the late socialism, and exhibition history and practices in connection with socio-political discourses.

Ana Ramazashvili is a PhD student in Cultural and Social Anthropology at Tbilisi State University. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study of economic, social, cultural and spatial aspects of the Lilo Market in Tbilisi. Additionally, she is interested in urban changes and started making the alternative tour of the Gldani district.
www.facebook.com/urbanaretbilisi

Nino Sekhniashvili is an artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her artistic language is not defined by any specific media but attempts to go beyond traditional and contemporary visual techniques. Sekhniashvili is the founder of the gallery and performance basement Nectar (Tbilisi) which exists since 2013.
www.gallerynectar.ge

Marike Splint is a theater maker from the Netherlands based in Los Angeles, specializing in performance in public space. Fascinated by the theme of belonging, she explores the relationship between people, places, and identity. She serves as a faculty member in the Department of Theater at UCLA.
www.marikesplint.com

Katharina Stadler is a Tbilisi based conceptual artist and writer. She works processbased on discourses of ideology connected especially to notions of new forms of colonialism and imperialism as well as on the issue of limits of consciousness through social mechanisms and other determinants.
www.katharinastadler.com

Sophia Tabatadze was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2002 at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Her practice is more of an autonomous artist in Europe and curatorial in Georgia, where she organizes projects through GeoAIR. Currently she lives and works in Berlin.
www.sophia-tabatadze.com

Giorgi Zagareli has a qualification in interior design. Currently he works on abstract forms of small mathematical shapes. He is also interested in experiments on furniture design, rapid prototyping, studying open sources and exploring old crafts. In 2010 he founded media platform designtbilisi.
www.designtbilisi.ge

Source: www.onomatopee.net (order the book here)

BOOK: Memories of Tiflis. Edited by Nicolas V. Iljine (iljine.net)

(iljine.net) Memories of Tiflis, edited by Nicolas V. Iljine, December 2017, 194 pages + attached image.

Richly illustrated with articles about history, art, architecture, music, festivities etc.

Documentary about Josph Brodsky

Film about and with Joseph Brodsky recorded in Venice in 1991. Directed by Nathan Fedorovski & Harald Lüders; Speaker Piotr Olev; Produced by Lufthansa / Nic Iljine

EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION LUNCH: Lost Heroes of Tbilisi. Soviet Period Mosaics - In The Trade Union Palace of Culture of Georgia, so called "Tsereteli Hall"

(facebook.com/geoair.archidrome) Just for one day different working material were on display, including private archives of authors, documents, sketches, catalogues and photos.

The exhibition included private archive material from Demur Bashaleishvili, Giorgi Chakhava, Saurmag Ghambashidze, Iden Tabidze, Radish Tordia, Kukuri Tsereteli, and photo material by GeoAIR, Zura Dumbadze, Nika Kapanadze, Alexi Kedelashvili and Nino Siradze.

On the same day we launched the publication, which includes research findings and photo documentation of monumental-decorative mosaics from various ‘public’ spaces of Tbilisi.

The intensive changes within public space, that have been taking place during the past 20 years, gave rise to our interest in the monumental-decorative mosaics. Unsystematic transformation of our urban environment, amateur interventions in forming the image of the city and façade ‘beautifications’ have led to the destruction of mosaics in the public spaces of Tbilisi.

It became the reason for documenting them, creating database and the online map, which can be found on the Google maps - Soviet Period Mosaics in Tbilisi

"Lost Heroes of Tbilisi. Soviet Period Mosaics" is part of SPACES project, funded by the European Union through the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme.

source: geoair.blogspot.de

more: Georgia’s Soviet Mosaics (23 Photos). By Mirian Jugheli

Created with flickr slideshow.

PUBLIKATION: THE SOUTH CAUCASUS 2018. FACTS, TRENDS, FUTURE SCENARIOS (kas.de)

(kas.de) Die vorliegende Publikation soll zu den Zielen der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung beitragen,den politischen und wirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozess zu unterstützen sowie den regionalen Dialog und die Annäherung an europäische Strukturen voranzutreiben. Sie beinhaltet Beiträge von Jungwissenschaftlern und etablierten Experten aus Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien.

Die vorliegende Publikation soll zu den Zielen der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung beitragen, den politischen und wirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozess zu unterstützen sowie den regionalen Dialog und die Annäherung an europäische Strukturen voranzutreiben. Sie beinhaltet Beiträge von jungen Wissenschaftlern und etablierten Experten aus Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien. Die Veröffentlichung wurde durch die Autoren selbst initiiert und konzipiert. Die einheitliche Struktur der Artikel erlaubt dem Leser einen Vergleich der Entwicklungen im Südkaukasus.

Das Konzept besteht in erster Linie darin, die großen Trends zu analysieren und mögliche Szenarien zu entwickeln. Das Jahr 2018 ist in dieser Hinsicht nicht nur eine symbolische Referenz zum hundertsten Jahrestag der ersten Unabhängigkeit der südkaukasischen Länder sondern auch ein realistischer Zeitraum für die Analyse von Entwicklungen.

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Südkaukasus als Region impliziert automatisch die Frage, ob Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien mehr als ihre Vergangenheit und die aus ihr hervorgegangenen Konflikte verbindet. Auf diese Frage geben die Autoren einige interessante Antworten. Mit der Darstellung ökonomischer und sozialer Entwicklungsmodelle, innenpolitischer Szenarios, der Rolle der EU und der Auseinandersetzung mit energiepolitischen Fragen ist “The South Caucasus 2018: Facts, Trends, Future Scenarios” eine wertvolle Quelle für Think Tanks, regionale und internationale Wissenschaftler, politische Entscheidungsträger sowie alle die an den Entwicklungen in dieser Region interessiert sind.

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EURASIANET BOOK REVIEW: Rediscovering Lost Tales from the Caucasus. By Alex van Oss (eurasianet.org)

Folklore scholar David Hunt has assembled an anthology of stories that present a fascinating side of the Caucasus rarely encountered by diplomats or students of international relations. He also renders a great service with this collection, culled from 19th and 20th century Russian ethnographic archives and field interviews.

These legends come primarily from the North Caucasus, with a dip into Azerbaijan, but, unfortunately, with no Armenian examples. There are tales from the Abkhaz and Lak; the Ingush and (now extinct) Ubykh peoples; from the Kabard, Georgian, and Lezgin traditions--and many others besides.

And what a feast it is!

Here we learn about Prometheus—but not the familiar classical Greek figure. In this compendium Hunt offers the reader no fewer than 10 permutations of the story, out of 44 Promethean legends identified in the Caucasus. It recounts, for example, how a certain Balkar named Susuruk obtained fire for the Narts—who are a "legendary heroic race of warriors," according to Hunt's helpful glossary.

Hunt also provides two dozen versions of another “Greek” story: that of the familiar Homeric Cyclops--but the tales here come from various Caucasus traditions, ranging from the Abaza to the Ossetian, all with protagonists escaping from one-eyed giants by means of cunning subterfuge. (One Chechen-Ingush Cyclops story revolves around the seductive intervention of the prisoner-hero's sister).

From Hunt’s notes on geography and terrain we learn why Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe, has twin peaks, and about how a certain Biblical figure docked his boat temporarily at its summit before floating elsewhere. A later footnote informs us that on the eastern slope of Mount Kazbegi there is a crag resembling a dragon, a feature explained by a charming cautionary Georgian tale:

"Having a false idea of his own importance, Amirani decided to measure his strength with Christ-God himself. For this, God chained him to the slope of Mkinvartsveri ['the peak of ice-houses,' i.e. Mt. Kazbegi]. A dragon, the unremitting enemy of Amirani, decided to take advantage of this. He crawled down from the summit of Mkinvari and got ready to swallow the chained Amirani. But Saint George found out about it and appeared there right away. After making threatening gestures at the dragon with his finger, the saint said, 'Stop! We chained Amirani so that he would repent of his sins, not to satisfy your hunger. Become a stone at once!'

"The dragon turned to stone there and then."

Elsewhere Hunt describes the finer points and honorable aspects--according to Caucasus tradition--of horse-stealing; and he entertains us with an eye-opening story of how (and why) a Balkar shepherd named Sozuk impregnated, of all things, a rock ....

Why haven't we read, or even heard about, these wonderful stories before? Hunt explains that they were written down late: "The bulk of [Caucasus] languages spoken in the mountainous and countryside regions had no alphabet until the early years of the 20th century, and so nearly all communication was oral. All knowledge, including the classical history, literature and music of the people was retained in the collective memory, particularly of those who specialized in memorizing and passing on their knowledge to the next generation."

Legends of the Caucasus should be placed on the bookshelf next to three other recent and important works: John Colarusso's compendium of Nart sagas; Donald Rayfield’s The Literature of Georgia; and C. Scott Littleton and Linda Malcor's From Scythia to Camelot, which describes their research into the Sarmatians and Alans, the ancestors of today's Ossetians. (According to the authors, these ancient peoples roamed through Western Europe and spread stories that evolved into the legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail.)

David Hunt arranges his material into sections covering Caucasus history and politics; rustling, blood feuds, and battle; hunting and sheep herding; family relations and the dead--each topped with a short introduction wherein the reader learns, for example, about such real-life legends as Timur the Lame, Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde, and the great 19th century Avar leader, Imam Shamil (revered to this day in Caucasus culture clubs throughout the former Ottoman Empire).

Particularly intriguing are details about adat ('unwritten customary code,' or mountain tradition); and feudal tussles between pshis (princes) and uorks (nobles), and between highlanders and valley dwellers.

One cannot but regret that Legends of the Caucasus is not illustrated. But all in good time, for surely this cornucopia will be discovered by children's book and graphic novel artists--not to mention Hollywood, for it contains a potential gold mine (or golden fleece) for filmmakers.

Editor's note: Alex van Oss is the Chair of Caucasus Advanced Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC.

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BOOK: Baku. Oil and Urbanism. Edited by Eve Blau with Ivan Rupnik. (lars-mueller-publishers.com)

Lars Müller Publishers

With a portfolio of contemporary Baku by photographer Iwan Baan

Baku: Oil and Urbanism is the first architectural study of the relationship between oil and urbanism. Its focus is Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Since the late 19th century, oil and urbanism have been intertwined in the spaces of the city. Later, Baku was the site of one of the most spectacular experiments in Soviet urban and infrastructural design­—“Neft Dashlari,” the first off-shore drilling facility in the world, a city built on trestles in the Caspian Sea. Today, Baku is undergoing its second major oil boom. The book examines how urban design, planning, and architecture have dealt with the issue of oil in varying political conditions. Working with maps and archival photographs, the book analyzes sites, buildings, urban fabric, plans to understand the evolution of the city.

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, approx. 320 pages, approx. 700 illustrations, hardcover (2012)

ISBN 978-3-03778-306-1, Englisch

EUR 50.00 / USD 60.00 / GBP 45.00

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Baku: Oil and Urbanism ist die erste Architekturstudie zum Verhältnis von Öl und Städtebau. Sie untersucht Baku, die Hauptstadt Aserbaid-schans, die früher zum Russischen Reich und der UdSSR gehörte. Seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts standen der Städtebau und das Öl hier miteinander in Beziehung. Später war Baku der Schauplatz eines der spektakulärsten sowjetischen Städtebau- und Infrastrukturprojekte – «Neft Dashlari», der ersten Offshore-Ölförderplattform der Welt, einer Stadt auf Stelzen im Kaspischen Meer. Heute erlebt Baku seinen zweiten Ölboom. Das Buch untersucht, wie Städtebau und -planung sowie Architektur mit dem Thema Öl in unterschiedlichen politischen Kontexten umgingen. Anhand von Kartenmaterial und Archivfotos analysiert der Titel Orte, Gebäude und das städtische Gefüge, um die Entwicklung der Stadt nachzuvollziehen.

 
Design: Integral Lars Müller
  
16,5 × 24 cm, ca. 320 Seiten, ca. 700 Abbildungen, Hardcover (2012)

ISBN 978-3-03778-306-1, Englisch

EUR 50,00 / CHF 60,00

 

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PUBLIKATION: Die Postsowjetische Stadt. Urbane Aushandlungsprozesse im Südkaukasus. (panama-verlag.de)

(panama-verlag.de) Berliner Blätter Sonderheft 59/2012

Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Kaschuba, Melanie Krebs und Madlen Pilz

Die aktuellen Entwicklungen von Politik und Kultur in Baku, Tbilisi und Yerevan lassen sich nicht länger allein aus ihrer sozialistischen Vergangenheit heraus erklären. Denn die Vorbilder der südkaukasischen Hauptstädte heißen heute Dubai, Singapur oder New York. Auf die zentrale Frage der Stadtforschung, wie Städte in ihrer scheinbar widersprüchlichen Vielfalt und weltweiten Vernetzung zu analysieren und beschreiben sind, sucht dieser Band erste Antworten. Er betont v.a. die analytische Perspektive auf die lokalen »Übersetzungen« von historischen Materialitäten und Symboliken einerseits und von neuen globalen und kulturellen Einflüssen andererseits.

Mit Beiträgen von Tsypylma Darieva, Susanne Fehlings, Sevil Huseynova, Wolfgang Kaschuba, Ketevan Khutsishvili, Melanie Krebs, Madlen Pilz, Irakli Pipia, Judith Rädlein und Christine Schmid

Panama Verlag 2012

196 S., Klappenbroschur, 16 x 23 cm

ISSN 1434-0542

ISBN 978-3-938714-23-2

14,90 € (D), 15,50 € (A), 24,90 sFr

Mehr dazu: Identitätspolitiken im Südkaukasus. Nationale Repräsentation, postsozialistische Gesellschaft und urbane Öffentlichkeit
 

In English: Urban Spaces after Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities - herausgegeben von Tsypylma Darieva, Wolfgang Kaschuba, Melanie Krebs
 

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HISTORY: The Georgian Chronicles and the raison d'être of the Iberian Kingdom. By Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze (scribd.com)

The Historical value of old Georgian chronicles and the problem of state formtion in Central Transcaucasia

• 1 The Problem of Authenticity of Old Georgian Chronicles
• 2 Apocryphal Alexander the Great and the Emergence of the Iberian Kingdom
• 3 The Role of Caucasian Passes in the Early History of Transcaucasia
• 4 The Iberian Kingdom and Orbis Terarrum
• 5 The Caucasus as a Marchland

Source: scribd.com/Kavtaradze: The Georgian Chronicles and the raison detre of the Iberian Kingdom

BIBLIOGRAPHIE: Georgien : Bibliographie des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums. Von Heinrich Rohrbacher.

Georgien : Bibliographie des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums / Heinrich Rohrbacher. Mit einem Vorw. von Karl Horst Schmidt. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2008. - XII, 562 S. ; 25 cm. - ISBN 978-3-447-05778-3 : EUR 78.00

(ifb.bsz-bw.de) Die hier mit ungebührlicher Verspätung angezeigte Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Monographien, Aufsätze und sonstiger unselbständiger Publikationen von den Anfängen bis etwa zum Jahr vor der Drucklegung (das Berichtsende ist nicht genannt) ersetzt die Bibliographie des Verfassers aus dem Jahr 1981. Bereits beim Vergleich allein des Seitenumfangs wird die gewaltige Umfangsvermehrung deutlich, und die Zahl der verzeichneten Titel stieg von damals 2086 auf nunmehr 7236 Nummern. Berücksichtigt ist nicht nur die Literatur über den heutigen Staat, sondern auch die über die ehemaligen georgischen Territorien und georgischen Siedlungsgebiete außerhalb des Staatsgebietes, und zwar für alle Bereiche, einschließlich der natürlichen Grundlagen. Die Verzeichnung erfolgt möglichst nach Autopsie und strebt nach Vollständigkeit, abgesehen von den auf S. IX genannten vier Bereichen, für die bereits andere Bibliographien3 und sonstige Nachschlagewerke vorliegen, auch wenn der Zeitungsindex, da veraltet und unvollständig, keinen wirklichen Ersatz bietet. Nicht berücksichtigt sind Rezensionen.

Die Anlage in neun Hauptgruppen (von 0 bis 9; Inhaltsverzeichnis auf S. V) mit weiteren vier Untergliederungspunkten ist auf S. 19 - 336 bis in alle Feinheiten aufgeschlüsselt und durch typographische Mittel7 differenziert; innerhalb der engsten Gruppe, die mit Hilfe entweder einer Überschrift oder von Begriffen auf dem Außenrand bezeichnet sind, ordnen die Titel chronologisch. Die Titelaufnahmen erfolgen "nach bibliothekarischen Regeln" (S. XI) und enthalten alle notwendigen bibliographischen Angaben, auch wenn die Vornamen grundsätzlich abgekürzt sind; "fast die Hälfte" der Titel ist zudem mit Annotationen versehen (ebd.). Die Siglen für die ausgewerteten Sammelwerke sind auf S. 1 - 18 aufgelöst. Das Personennamen-Register (S. 487 - 562) nennt auch die Vornamen und verweist von abweichenden Namensformen auf eine tandardansetzung; Personen als Gegenstand der Darstellung sind durch Kursivierung der laufenden Ob der BibNliuomgrmapehr msiacrhkiemritt. dem Gedanken trägt, im Alter selbst oder mit Hilfe anderer seine Bibliographie fortzuschreiben, erfahren wir nicht. Nützlich wäre das allemal, erscheinen doch weiterhin zahlreiche und auch gewichtige Publikationen über Georgien in deutscher Sprache, wovon etwa die neue Geschichte Georgiens9 Zeugnis ablegt. (Von Klaus Schreiber)

Amazon: Georgien: Bibliographie des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums

Google Books: books.google.de/books/about/Georgien

Heinrich Rohrbacher. Georgien. Bibliographie des deutschsprachigen. Schrifttums. Mit einem Vorwort von. Karl Horst Schmidt. 2008. Harrassowitz Verlag (pdf)  

Das Werk spiegelt die engen Kontakte des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums mit dem Kaukasus und insbesondere mit der bereits im 5. Jahrhundert christianisierten alten Kulturregion Georgien wider. Die Bibliographie enthält über 7000 z. T. annotierte Titel über Georgien, ehemalige georgische Provinzen in Nordost- Anatolien und georgische Siedlungsgebiete außerhalb des Mutterlandes unter den Gliederungspunkten: Archäologie, Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte, Byzantinistik, Geschichte, Literaturwissenschaft und Philologie, Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Christlicher Orient und Sprachwissenschaft. Soweit wie möglich wurden die Titel in Autopsie nach bibliothekarischen Regeln aufgenommen. Die zehn Hauptabschnitte der Bibliographie sind durch weitere Stufen gegliedert, wobei in der jeweils letzten das Material nach Erscheinungsjahren angeordnet ist. Die Benutzung der Bibliographie wird erleichtert durch verschiedene Übersichten: abgekürzt aufgeführte Sammelwerke, Sachliche Gliederung, Abkürzungsverzeichnis, Umschrift-Tabelle, Personennamen- Register.
 

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BOOK: 'Understanding European Neighbourhood Policies' . Ed. by Edmund Ratka and Olga A. Spaiser.

(nomos-shop.de) Beim Nomos-Verlag wurde vor kurzem ein umfangreicher Sammelband zur Nachbarschaftspolitik der EU unter dem Titel 'Understanding European Neighbourhood Policies' veröffentlicht. Der Band enthält sowohl theoretische Beiträge als auch Analysen zur Umsetzung der ENP in der südlichen und östlichen 'Nachbarschaft' der EU und könnte demnach für jene, die sich mit dem Thema beschäftigen, von Interesse sein.

Hier eine Leseprobe und das Inhaltsverzeichnis:  
nomos-shop.de (pdf)

Unter folgendem Link sind weitere Informationen zu finden:  
nomos-shop.de

Die Europäische Union und ihre Mitgliedstaaten haben ein komplexes Netz an verschiedenen Politiken gegenüber den Ländern und Regionen in der unmittelbaren und erweiterten Nachbarschaft der EU entwickelt. Gerade im Zuge der Transformationsprozesse in der arabischen Welt werden diese zunehmend auf den Prüfstand gestellt. Eine Neubewertung und Anpassung der „europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitiken“ setzt indes ein umfassendes Verständnis von deren Entstehung, Umsetzung und Wirksamkeit voraus.

Vor diesem Hintergrund unternimmt dieser Band eine multiperspektivische Analyse der europäischen Politik gegenüber Nordafrika, dem Nahen Osten und der Golfregion sowie gegenüber dem Balkan, Russland, der Schwarzmeerregion, dem Südkaukasus und Zentralasien.

Ein Schwerpunkt wird dabei auf die an der Politikformulierung beteiligten Akteure sowie auf deren oftmals divergierende Perzeptionen der Nachbarregionen gelegt. Der Band untersucht außerdem Interaktionsprozesse wie Europäisierung, die zwischen den Mitgliedstaaten, EU-Institutionen und den Zielregionen wirken. Des Weiteren werden theoretische und methodische Ansätze diskutiert und weiterentwickelt, mit denen der fragmentierte und zugleich verwobene Charakter der „Nachbarschaftspolitiken“ erfasst werden kann.

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe Münchner Beiträge zur europäischen Einigung, Band 22.

Part III

European Neighbourhood Policies towards the East

Carrots, Sticks and Regional Cooperation: A Critical Analysis of the EU’s Approaches towards the Black Sea Region. By Alina Homorozean

Georgia and the Eastern Partnership: Progress, Problems and Prospects. By David Rinnert

EU-Russia Relations and the Eastern Partnership. By Sebastian Schäffer

The Russian ‘Other’: The Impact of National Identity Construction on EU-Russia Relations. By Marco Siddi

Germany’s Influence on EU Foreign Policy: The Case of the EU Strategy for Central Asia. By Olga A. Spaiser
 

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PUBLICATION: Essays on History of the South Caucasian Countries (A Multi-perspective View of History)

In November 2007, the Analytical Centre on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation together with its partners, Public Union of the Azerbaijan Historians and Caritas Georgia, initiated a meeting of historians and civic activists of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The meeting was organised with assistance of Caritas France.

Such a framework for cooperation was chosen because the experience of the recent few years’ developments in the South Caucasus had showed that many problematic issues in relations between the peoples of the region arise because of different interpretation of historical facts, different views and approaches to events that occurred in the South Caucasus. Therefore, it was needed to organise regular meetings and to develop cooperation between historians and civic activists of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

The main result of the aforementioned meeting was the communiqué adopted on 13 November 2007. In the communiqué it was, particularly, said:

After having the debates and discussions we, participants of the working meeting, state that it is important and beneficial for the peoples of the South Caucasus:
- To organise meetings of civil activists and historians of the South Caucasian countries on regular basis that helps to create an atmosphere of tolerance, respect, and mutual understanding;
- We are interested in publishing joint articles and essays in scientific journals and non-affiliated magazines, as proposed by some of the participants of the working meeting;
- The Tbilisi initiative of the Council of Europe, providing for a joint project on Caucasus History, is a positive example of cooperation of historians from the South Caucasian countries;
- This format is one of the directions for continued efforts of our countries’ citizens aimed to the development of civil society, finding historical factors that keep us together, democratisation and European integration of the South Caucasian countries.

During the aforementioned meeting, the participants showed great interest for the working session dedicated to the experience of Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian historians who had worked together on a book titled The History of Caucasus. That project was frozen in 2003 because of several disagreements between Armenian and Azerbaijani experts (we consider that one of the main reasons for such a failure had been the extremely different task assigned to the experts – to write joint history of the South Caucasian countries and to overcome all differences in approach). On the other side, the work that was done deserves close attention, because it was a positive example of cooperation between historians of three countries. We offered the authors who had worked on that project – Armen Khachikyan from Armenia, Aydin Aslanov from Azerbaijan and Paata Ramishvili from Georgia – to go back to the accomplished work and, using the experience they had gained, to prepare new essays on history of their respective countries, centred on a multi-perspective view. New essays would be based on the previously used materials, as well as would count on the new factors that emerged during the recent 10-12 years. In fact, that meant publishing the first comprehensive joint work of Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian historians.

The newly-published book, Essays on History of the South Caucasian Countries, contains essays about the historical past of the peoples of the South Caucasus, from the ancient times till the establishment of the Soviet authority in the region. We hope that the book will be interesting and useful for the readers. The first part of the book reveals the historical context of the development of the South Caucasus from the ancient times till the establishment of the Soviet authority in the region, and the second part presents the cultural treasures of the South Caucasian countries. The book contains a number of illustrations.

Being addressed to both scientific and popular audiences, Essays on History of the South Caucasian Countries is addressed to a wide circle of readers, first of all, to civil society institutions, academics, state institutions, younger generation, as well as international organisations concerned with peacemaking and development of cooperation in the South Caucasus.

The authors worked on the book for near two years. They attempted to let the readers know about the main instances in the history of the three countries. It was important not just to provide some information, but also to introduce the readers to the neighbour peoples’ views to the same events, so the peoples of the region might develop tolerance and mutual understanding. Besides, the book provides different interpretations of a number of regional events, using a multi-perspective approach; in fact, that means having three different viewpoints on certain historical events. That is also important for readers living in the region, as well as outside, because they may see how contemporary historians from the South Caucasian countries interpret the historical events. It is natural that historians from different countries have different approaches according to their personal, cultural and national identities.

Such an approach has important characteristics:
1. The society of each country may get familiar with the viewpoints of others on the same historical events.
2. Historians from each country may have an opportunity to discuss the viewpoints of their colleagues from other countries within a scientific framework.
3. Being better informed will let the societies of three countries to develop dialogue.

So, the essays in the first part of the book may not match each other. Sometimes they may contain conflicting statements. As a result, any impartial reader will have to think. Any reader may choose one of the explanations for historical events, but it should be remembered that other explanations, which lead to other interpretations, also have the right to exist.

Finally, let us congratulate the historians and civil societies of the South Caucasian countries for publishing of the book, which is the first example of joint scientific work of academics from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the period of independence of our countries.


Stepan Grigoryan,
Chairman of the Analytical Centre on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC)

www.acgrc.am

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Publications on the Caucasus and Central Asia – A quarterly bibliography

(POCAU+CA) 4 – 2009

An overview of recent English- and German-language academic publications

on the Caucasus and Central Asia

POLITICS

Arutiunov, Sergey: Cultural Archetypes and Political Change in the Caucasus,

Nova Science, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1607417392, Hardcover.

Coene, Frederik: The Caucasus: An Introduction,

Routledge, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415486606, Hardcover, pp. 240.

Cummings, Sally N. (ed.): Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstans Tulip

Revolution: Motives, mobilization and meanings,

Routledge; December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415491907, Hardcover, pp. 166.

Das Ende des postsozialistischen Raums? (Ent-) Regionalisierung in Osteuropa, Beiträge für

die 17. Tagung junger Osteuropa-Experten, veranstaltet von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für

Osteuropakunde, der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa und der Europäischen Akademie Berlin,

Arbeitspapiere der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa No. 104, September 2009, pp. 158,

http://www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/images/stories/pdf/JOE-Tagungen/fsoAP104.pdf

Dave, Bhavna (ed.): Politics of Modern Central Asia,

Routledge, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415468268, Hardcover, pp. 1776.

Domjan, Paul / Stone, Matt: A Comparative Study of Resource Nationalism in Russia and

Kazakhstan 2004–2008,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 62 (January 2010), No. 1, pp. 35–62.

Emerson, Michael / Youngs, Richard (eds): Democracy's Plight in the European

Neighbourhood: Struggling Transitions and Proliferating Dynasties,

Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2009, ISBN 978-92-9079-926-9, pp. 171,

http://www.ceps.eu/ceps/download/2315

Ergun, Ayça: The presidential election in Azerbaijan, October 2008,

in: Electoral Studies, Vol. 28 (December 2009), No. 4, pp. 647–651.

Gendron, Renée: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the North Caucasus,

in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (4) (Autumn 2009), pp. 333–341.

George, Julie A.: The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia,

Palgrave Macmillan, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0230613591, Hardcover, pp. 260.

Gilligan, Emma: Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War,

Princeton University Press, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0691130798, Hardcover, pp. 288.

Gullette, David: The Genealogical Construction of the Kyrgyz Republic: Kinship, State and

Tribalism,

Global Oriental, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1906876104, Hardcover, pp. 272.

Hann, Chris / Pelkmans, Mathijs: Realigning Religion and Power in Central Asia: Islam,

Nation-State and (Post)Socialism,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (November 2009), No. 9, pp. 1517–1541.

Ishiyama, John: Historical legacies and the size of the red-brown vote in post-communist

politics,

in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 42 (December 2009), No. 4, pp. 485–504.

Kabulov, Egamberdy: On the Results of the Presidential Election in Kyrgyzstan,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Karmazina, Lydia: Opposition in Kazakhstan: Nagging Problems,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Ostrowski, Wojciech: Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan,

Routledge, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415485807, Hardcover, pp. 212.

Rundle, Christopher: Central Asia,

in: Asian Affairs, Vol. 40 (2009), No. 3, pp. 453–457.

Sabanadze, Natalie: Globalization and Nationalism: The Cases of Georgia and the Basque

Country,

Central European University Press, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-9639776531, Hardcover,

pp. 218.

Sattarov, Rufat: Islam, State, and Society in Independent Azerbaijan: Between Historical

Legacy and Post-Soviet Reality - with special reference to Baku and its environs,

Reichert Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89500-692-0, Hardcover, pp. 394.

Shafer, Richard / Freedman, Eric: Press Constraints as Obstacles to Establishing Civil

Societies in Central Asia,

in: Journalism Studies, Vol. 10 (December 2009), No. 6, pp. 851–869.

FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY

Abushov, Kavus: Policing the near abroad: Russian foreign policy in the South Caucasus,

in: Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63 (2009), No. 2, pp. 187–212.

Alturki, Fahad / Espinosa-Bowen, Jaime / Ilahi, Nadeem: How Russia Affects the

Neighborhood: Trade, Financial, and Remittance Channels,

IWF Working Paper 09/277, December 2009,

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2009/wp09277.pdf

Averre, Derek: Competing Rationalities: Russia, the EU and the ‘Shared Neighbourhood’,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (December 2009), No. 10, pp. 1689–1713.

Bilgin, Mert: Geopolitics of European natural gas demand: Supplies from Russia, Caspian

and the Middle East,

in: Energy Policy, Vol. 37 (November 2009), No. 11, pp. 4482–4492.

Bishku, Michael B.: The South Caucasus Republics and Israel,

in: Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45 (2009), No. 2, pp. 295–314.

Boonstra, Jos: The EU Strategy for Central Asia says ‘security’: Does this include Security

Sector Reform?,

EUCAM Policy Brief No. 10, November 2009,

http://www.eucentralasia.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/Policy_Briefs/PB10.pdf

Coene, Frederik: The Caucasus: An Introduction,

Routledge, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415486606, Hardcover, pp. 240.

Cruz-Del Rosario, Teresita: Risky riparianism: Cooperative water governance in Central

Asia,

in: Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63 (2009), No. 3, pp. 404–415.

Das Ende des postsozialistischen Raums? (Ent-) Regionalisierung in Osteuropa, Beiträge für

die 17. Tagung junger Osteuropa-Experten, veranstaltet von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für

Osteuropakunde, der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa und der Europäischen Akademie Berlin,

Arbeitspapiere der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa No. 104, September 2009, pp. 158,

http://www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/images/stories/pdf/JOE-Tagungen/fsoAP104.pdf

Domjan, Paul / Stone, Matt: A Comparative Study of Resource Nationalism in Russia and

Kazakhstan 2004–2008,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 62 (January 2010), No. 1, pp. 35–62.

Falkowski, Maciej: Turkey’s game for the Caucasus,

OSW Commentary No. 29, October 2009, Center for Eastern Studies,

http://www.osw.waw.pl/files/commentary_29.pdf

Filippov, Mikhail: Diversionary Role of the Georgia–Russia Conflict: International Constraints

and Domestic Appeal,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (December 2009), No. 10, pp. 1825–1847.

Gänzle, Stefan: EU Governance and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Framework for

Analysis,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (December 2009), No. 10, pp. 1715–1734.

Gavrilis, George: Beyond the Border Management Programme for Central Asia (BOMCA),

EUCAM Policy Brief No. 11, November 2009,

http://www.eucentralasia.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/Policy_Briefs/PB11.pdf

Gerber, Theodore P. / Mendelson, Sarah E.: Security Through Sociology: The North

Caucasus and the Global Counterinsurgency Paradigm,

in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 32 (2009), No. 9, pp. 831–851.

Hanks, Reuel R.: 'Multi-vector politics' and Kazakhstan's emerging role as a geo-strategic

player in Central Asia,

in: The Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Sudies, Vol. 11 (September 2009), No. 3,

pp. 257–269.

International Monetary Fund: Armenia: Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money

Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism,

IMF Country Report No. 10/9, January 2010,

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr1009.pdf

International Monetary Fund: Armenia: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-

FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of

Terrorism,

IMF Country Report No. 10/8, January 2010,

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=23522.0

Ivanov, Vladimir: GUAM: Old Problems and New Challenges,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Karrar, Hasan H.: New Silk Road Diplomacy: China's Central Asian Foreign Policy Since the

Cold War,

University of British Columbia Press, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0774816922, Hardcover,

pp. 252.

Kavalski, Emilian (ed.): The New Central Asia: The Regional Impact of International Actors,

World Scientific Publishing Company, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-9814287562,

Hardcover, pp. 300.

Lippert, Barbara / Fischer, Severin: Mehr Gleise: Energieaußenpolitik und

Nachbarschaftspolitik der EU,

in: Osteuropa, Vol. 59 (November 2009), No. 11, pp. 53–70.

Marat, Erica: The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence,

Routledge, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415493475, Hardcover, pp. 176.

Marketos, Thrassyvoulos: Iran’s Geopolitics in the Midst of the U.S.-Russia-China Energy

Security Struggle for Geostrategic Control over Eurasia,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Mikaelian, Grant: The BSEC: Its Regional Integration Prospects for Armenia,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Mikhelidze, Nona: After the 2008 Russia-Georgia War: Implications for the Wider Caucasus,

in: The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 44 (2009), No. 3,

pp. 27–42.

Morozov, Yuri: Cooperation among the SCO Countries in the Humanitarian Sphere: Existing

Problems and Possible Solutions,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Naribaev, Marat: Cooperation between Kazakhstan and the Shanghai Cooperation

Organization as a Factor in the Development of Foreign Economic Activity Today,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Nikolaev, S.: Russia-Central Asia: Toward Prosperity and Security,

in: International Affairs, Vol. 55 (2009), No. 4, pp. 26–34.

Omelicheva, Mariya Y.: Convergence of Counterterrorism Policies: A Case Study of

Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia,

in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 32 (2009), No. 10, pp. 893–908.

Ostrowski, Wojciech: Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan,

Routledge, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415485807, Hardcover, pp. 212.

Overland, Indra et al. (eds.): Petroleum Politics of the Caspian,

Routledge, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415549165, Hardcover, pp. 208.

Popescu, Nicu: EU and the Eastern Neighbourhood: Reluctant Involvement in Conflict

Resolution,

in: European Foreign Affairs Review, (2009) No. 14, pp. 457–477.

Rich, Paul B. (ed.): Crisis in the Caucasus: Russia, Georgia and the West,

Routledge, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415544290, Hardcover, pp. 246.

Sadigbayli, Rovshan: The Implications of the 1993 U.N. Security Council Action for the

Settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict,

in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Autumn 2009), No. 4, pp. 342–370.

Sasse, Gwendolyn: The European Neighbourhood Policy and Conflict Management: A

Comparison of Moldova and the Caucasus,

in: Ethnopolitics, Vol. 8 (2009) No. 3–4, pp. 369–386.

Shelest, Anna: The Georgian-Russian Conflict, Energy Projects, and Security of the Black

Sea-Caspian Region,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Sierra, Pardo: Stabilizing the Neighbourhood? The EU’s Contribution to SSR in Georgia,

in: European Foreign Affairs Review, (2009) No. 14, pp. 479–500.

Slay, Ben: Energy Security, Poverty and Vulnerability in Central Asia and the Wider

European Neighbourhood,

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 396, 2009,

http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/27584884_CNSA_396_Dec14_2009.pdf

Tiede, Wolfgang / Schirmer, Jakob: Die rechtlichen Grundlagen der Überwachungsmission

der Europäischen Union in Georgien (EUMM),

in: Osteuropa-Recht, Vol. 55, No.4, pp. 403–413.

Tolstrup, Jakob: Studying a negative external actor: Russia's management of stability and

instability in the ‘Near Abroad’,

in: Democratization, Vol. 16 (2009), No. 5, pp. 922–944.

Tomashot, Shane: Swamp of Terrorism: U.S. Foreign Policy in Central Asia,

Lampert Academic Publishing, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3838322940, Paperback,

pp. 116.

Tulmets, Elsa / Delcour, Laure: Pioneer Europe? The ENP as a Test Case for EU’s Foreign

Policy,

in: European Foreign Affairs Review, (2009) No. 14, pp. 501–523.

Volkhonskiy, Mikhail: Medvedev-Sarkozy’s Six Points: The Diplomatic Aspect of the South

Ossetian Settlement,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Welt, Cory: The Thawing of a Frozen Conflict: The Internal Security Dilemma and the 2004

Prelude to the Russo-Georgian War,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 62 (January 2010), No. 1, pp. 63–97.

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Alturki, Fahad / Espinosa-Bowen, Jaime / Ilahi, Nadeem: How Russia Affects the

Neighborhood: Trade, Financial, and Remittance Channels,

IWF Working Paper 09/277, December 2009,

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2009/wp09277.pdf

Apergis, Nicholas / E. Payne, James: The emissions, energy consumption, and growth

nexus: Evidence from the commonwealth of independent states,

in: Energy Policy, Vol. 38 (January 2010), No. 1, pp. 650–655.

Arutiunov, Sergey: Cultural Archetypes and Political Change in the Caucasus,

Nova Science, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1607417392, Hardcover.

Baylarov, Orkhan: Leasing contract in Azerbaijan and United States: Comparison Analysis,

Verlag Dr. Müller, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3639223934, Paperback, pp. 68.

Bilgin, Mert: Geopolitics of European natural gas demand: Supplies from Russia, Caspian

and the Middle East,

in: Energy Policy, Vol. 37 (November 2009), No. 11, pp. 4482–4492.

Birchwood, Diane: Explaining differences in sport participation rates among young adults:

Evidence from the South Caucasus,

in: European Physical Education Review, Vol. 14 (2009), No. 3, pp. 283–298.

Charles, Robia: Religiosity and Trust in Religious Institutions: Tales from the South

Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia),

UC Berkeley: Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 2009,

http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1b88b59g

Chedia, Beka: The Georgian Orthodox Church in Current Georgian Policy,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Coene, Frederik: The Caucasus: An Introduction,

Routledge, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415486606, Hardcover, pp. 240.

Council of Europe: Youth Policy in Armenia (2009),

Council of Europe, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-9287166272, Paperback, pp. 70.

Danzer, Alexander M.: Battlefields of Ethnic Symbols. Public Space and Post-Soviet Identity

Formation from a Minority Perspective [Kazakhstan],

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (Novmber 2009), No. 9, pp. 1557–1577.

Das Ende des postsozialistischen Raums? (Ent-) Regionalisierung in Osteuropa, Beiträge für

die 17. Tagung junger Osteuropa-Experten, veranstaltet von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für

Osteuropakunde, der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa und der Europäischen Akademie Berlin,

Arbeitspapiere der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa No. 104, September 2009, pp. 158,

http://www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/images/stories/pdf/JOE-Tagungen/fsoAP104.pdf

Domjan, Paul / Stone, Matt: A Comparative Study of Resource Nationalism in Russia and

Kazakhstan 2004–2008,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 62 (January 2010), No. 1, pp. 35–62.

Gorton, Matthew / White, John: Export strategies and performance in the CIS: Case study

evidence from the dairy sector,

in: Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 21 (December 2009 ), No. 4, pp. 475–494.

Gugushvili, Alexi: Political Economy of Old-Age Pension Reforms in Georgia,

in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Autumn 2009), No. 4, pp. 371–386.

Gullette, David: The Genealogical Construction of the Kyrgyz Republic: Kinship, State and

Tribalism,

Global Oriental, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1906876104, Hardcover, pp. 272.

Hajiyev, Shamseddin / Murshudli, Fakhri: Azerbaijan Financial and Banking System during

the Global Crisis: Shift of Emphasis in International Comparative Assessments,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Hann, Chris / Pelkmans, Mathijs: Realigning Religion and Power in Central Asia: Islam,

Nation-State and (Post)Socialism,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (Novmber 2009), No. 9, pp. 1517–1541.

Hinote, Brian P. et al.: Post-Communism and Female Tobacco Consumption in the Former

Soviet States,

in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (Novmber 2009), No. 9, pp. 1543–1555.

Hinote, Brian P. et al.: Psychological distress and dietary patterns in eight post-Soviet

republics,

in: Appetite, Vol. 53 (August 2009), No. 1, pp. 24–33.

International Crisis Group: Central Asia: Migrants and the Economic Crisis,

Asia Report No°183, January 2010,

http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/central_asia/183_central_asia___migrants

_and_economic_crisis.pdf

International Monetary Fund: Armenia: Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money

Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism,

IMF Country Report No. 10/9, January 2010,

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr1009.pdf

International Monetary Fund: Armenia: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-

FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of

Terrorism,

IMF Country Report No. 10/8, January 2010,

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=23522.0

Ismailov, Eldar: Monetary and Banking Systems of the Central Eurasian Countries in the

Context of the World Financial and Economic Crisis,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Kalyuzhnova, Yelena / Nygaard, Christian: Resource nationalism and credit growth in FSU

countries,

in: Energy Policy, Vol. 37 (November 2009), No. 11, pp. 4700–4710.

Kramer, Matthias (ed.): Integratives und nachhaltigkeitsorientiertes Wassermanagement:

Kooperationspotenziale zwischen Deutschland und Zentralasien,

Gabler, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3834920836, Hardcover, pp. 300.

Lerman, Zvi / Sedik, David: Rural Transition in Azerbaijan,

Lexington Books, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0739143162, Hardcover.

Manning, Paul: The Epoch of Magna: Capitalist Brands and Postsocialist Revolutions in

Georgia,

in: Slavic Review, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 924–945.

Mickiewicz, Tomasz M.: Hierarchy of governance institutions and the pecking order of

privatisation: Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia reconsidered

in: Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 21 (December 2009), No. 4, pp. 399-423.

Migranian, Aza: The World Economic Crisis and its Impact on the Economic Development of

the Central Asian Countries,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Mikaelian, Grant: The BSEC: Its Regional Integration Prospects for Armenia,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Musabayov, R. / Shulman, R. (eds): Azerbaijan in 2008: Sociological monitoring:

Comparative analysis of findings of sociological survey held in the Republic by totals of 2006,

2007 and 2008,

Baku, 2009,

http://www.fes.ge/images/Fes_Files/ASPublications/puls_2009_eng.pdf

Naribaev, Marat: Cooperation between Kazakhstan and the Shanghai Cooperation

Organization as a Factor in the Development of Foreign Economic Activity Today,

in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, Vol. 58–59 (2009), No. 4–5.

Nathan, Joy: Kazakhstan's New Economy: Post-Soviet, Central Asian Industries in a Global

Era,

University of Scranton Press, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1589661073, Paperback,

pp. 512.

Orenstein, Mitchell A.: What Happened in East European (Political) Economies? A Balance

Sheet for Neoliberal Reform,

in: East European Politics & Societies, Vol. 23 (2009), No. 4, pp. 479–490.

Ostrowski, Wojciech: Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan,

Routledge, October 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415485807, Hardcover, pp. 212.

Overland, Indra et al. (eds.): Petroleum Politics of the Caspian,

Routledge, December 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415549165, Hardcover, pp. 208.

Racioppi, Linda / O'Sullivan, Katherine: Gender Politics in Post-Communist Eurasia,

Michigan State University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-87013-866-9, Paperback, pp. 315.

Rechel, Bernd / McKee, Martin: Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former

Soviet Union,

in: The Lancet, Vol. 374 (October 2009), No. 9696, pp. 1186–1195.

Roberts, Ken et al.: Youth leisure careers during post-communist transitions in the South

Caucasus,

in: Leisure Studies, Vol. 28 (2009), No. 3, pp. 261–277.

Roberts, Ken et al.: Young adults’ family and housing life-stage transitions during post-

communist transition in the South Caucasus,

in: Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 12 (2009), No. 2, pp. 151–166.

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