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History of the Northern Kirkhiz Chieftans, 1800-1935 (Research Brief) November 2, 2009 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... Education, Research Support	Think Future: Constructing Hope and Anti-Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Research Brief) November 2, 2009 My ethnographic research among emergent activist groups demanding more governmental accountability in Sarajevo, the capitol of Bosnia-Herzegovina, suggests that citizens mobilize the newly... Education, Research Support
The Russian Language in Georgia: A Case Study of the Social Pressures Facing Russian-Speaking Minorities in the CIS (Research Brief) November 2, 2009 My research resulted in findings that were, I believe, largely indicative of a situation that had existed in Georgia since the end of the Abkhazian War in 1993 and up to August of 2008. Education, Research Support	Worlds Connected: Cimmerian-Scythian Nomadic-Sedentary Interaction in the Ukrainian Iron Age (Research Brief) November 2, 2009 This research project concerns nomadic-sedentary interactions between Early Iron Age (1000- 500 B.C.) nomadic steppe groups (the Cimmerians and Scythians) with sedentary societies in the... Education, Research Support
Contested Curriculum: Moldovan Teachers’ Responses to Integrated History (Research Brief) November 2, 2009 National history textbooks are controversial in post-Soviet Moldova, where the government and the intellectual elite have differing concepts of the nation and national identity (Casu 2005; King... Education, Research Support	Can Islamic Institutions Promote Civil Liberties and Diminish Radicalism in the Muslim Central Asia? (Research Brief) November 1, 2009 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... Education, Research Support
Nation-Building and Geopolitical Traditions in Post-independence Kazakhstan (Research Brief) October 9, 2009 This report offers a cursory introduction to the region-specific operation of elite strategies to instill a particular ―Kazakhstani‖ identity, while pointing to the differential interpretation... Education, Research Support	China's Support for Investment in Kazakhstan: Good Neighbor, Good Economics or Good Geopolitics? (Research Brief) October 1, 2009 Daniel Christopher O'Neill presents a theory of how Chinese foreign aid constrains Kazakh leaders from acting against the interests of Chinese firms and then use this framework to examine... Education, Research Support
Localizing Global Subjects: A Study of Educational Actors in the Process of Albanian Democratization (Research Brief) October 1, 2009 This project investigates the role of educational actors in Albanian education reform and democratization. With the fall of communism, Albanians looked to the West for assistance with democratic... Education, Research Support	Assymetric Federalism and Property Rights in Russia (Research Brief) September 11, 2009 My research focused on center-regional relations in Russia regarding important economic assets that in the 1990s were under the control of republics. Education, Research Support