Library

Find Resources by:

August 4, 2010

March 4, 2010
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

The project concerned whether and how ethnic Uzbeks in a Central Asian city are articulating their communal aspirations using the language or ideas of Islam and just society.

December 31, 2009

November 2, 2009
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

A unique category of hereditary chieftains, called manaps, emerged among the northern Kirghiz (Central Asian Turkic mountain nomads) in the early nineteenth century and dominated Kirghiz...

November 1, 2009
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

Does Islam promote or hinder democracy in the Muslim world? In this project, I investigated the extent of impact of emerging Islamic institutions on developing civil society and rising...

October 1, 2009
Short Term Travel Grants

My research concerned the impact of international and national institutions on indigenous religious practice.

September 10, 2009
Short Term Travel Grants

The rise of the Taliban and the subsequent decades of conflict in Afghanistan, and now Pakistan, have had serious, if underappreciated effects, on political stability and cooperation in Central...

August 30, 2009
Short Term Travel Grants

This research assesses why collective action by the political opposition has been so difficult in the postcommunist world.

August 30, 2009
Short Term Travel Grants

A short-term travel grant permitted the first stage of a long-term project that seeks to analyze women’s motivations for pursuing Islamic education in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which are...

April 6, 2009
Regional Policy Symposium

On April 1 - 3, 2009, IREX, in collaboration with the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC), hosted its Ninth Annual Regional Policy Symposium in...