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General
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Karatchevo-Tcherkessia/Karbadino-Balkaria
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
General
Elwert, Georg (2003). Interventions in Markets of Violence. In: Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (ed.). Potentials of Disorder. Manchester: Manchester University Press (pdf, 140 kB)
Koehler, Jan (2004). Institutionalisierte Konfliktaustragung, Kohäsion und Wandel. Theoriegeleiteter Praxischeck auf Gemeindeebene. In: Julia Eckert (ed.). Anthropologie der Konflikte: Georg Elwerts konflikttheoretische These in der Diskussion. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 273-297 (pdf, 189 kB)
Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (2003). Institutions and the Organisation of Stability and Disorder. In: Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (eds.). Potentials of Disorder. Manchester: Manchester University Press (pdf, 129 kB)
Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (2003). Introduction: Potentials of (Dis)order in the Caucasus and Yugoslavia. In: Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (eds.). Potentials of Disorder. Manchester: Manchester University Press (pdf, 140 kB)
Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (2004). Conflict and the State of the State in the Caucasus and Central Asia: an Empirical Research Challenge. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 21, pp. 57-67 (pdf, 121 kB)
Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (2004). Der Staat und sein Schatten. Betrachtungen zur Institutionalisierung hybrider Staatlichkeit im Süd-Kaukasus. In: WeltTrends (12), 45, Winter 2004, pp. 84-96 (pdf, 149 kB)
Radnitz, Scott (2004). Understanding and Withstanding the 'Stans'. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 21, pp. 101-103 (pdf, 35 kB)
Zuercher, Christoph (1997). Krieg und Frieden in Tschetschenien: Ursachen, Symbole, Interessen. Arbeitspapiere des Bereichs Politik und Gesellschaft Nr. 2, Osteuropa-Institut der FU Berlin (pdf, 360 kB)
Zuercher, Christoph (1998). Aus der Ostmoderne in die Postmoderne: zum Wandel in der früheren Sowjetunion. Arbeitspapiere des Bereichs Politik und Gesellschaft Nr. 16, Osteuropa-Institut der FU Berlin (pdf, 423 kB)
Zuercher, Christoph (1998). Das Schauspiel der Kulturen am Ende der Moderne oder die Retraditionalisierung in der früheren Sowjetunion. Berliner Osteuropa Info 11, pp. 22-27 (pdf, 421 kB)
Zuercher, Christoph (2000). Der Schatten des Krieges in der russischen Politik. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 14, pp. 39-41 (pdf, 652 kB)
Afghanistan
Research Proposals
Gardizi, Manija. Local Governance - a Challenge for State Building in Afghanistan? (pdf, 193 kB)
Theuss, Marc. A Comparison of two Afghan-Badakhshani District Borders: Impact of the Opium-Poppy Economy and Cross-Border Heroin Trade on Political Outcomes. (pdf, 29 kB)
Papers and Presentations
Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (2006). State building, Conflict and Narcotics in Afghanistan. The View from Below. In: International Peacekeeping; forthcoming December 2006
Theuss, Marc. Two Afghan-Badakhshani Border Districts: Changing Local Governance and Impacts of Narcotics Political Economy. Presentation (pdf, 9,7mB)
Radnitz, Scott (2004). Working with Warlords: Designing an Ethnofederal System for Afghanistan. In: Regional and Federal Studies, (14) 4
Armenia
Papers and Presentations
Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (2003). The Art of Losing the State: Weak Empire to Weak Nation State around Nagorno-Karabakh. In: Koehler, Jan and Christoph Zuercher (eds.). Potentials of Disorder. Manchester: Manchester University Press (pdf, 119 kB)
Azerbaijan
Papers and Presentations
Sidikov, Bahodir (2004). New or Traditional? "Clans", Regional Groupings and State in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 21, pp. 68-74 (pdf, 89 kB)
Georgia
Research Proposals
Wheatley, Jonathan. Group Dynamics and Institutional Change in the Republic of Georgia. A Four-Region Comparison (pdf, 61 kB)
Papers and Presentations
Koehler, Jan (1999). The School of the Streets: Organizing Diversity and Training Polytaxis in a (post-) Soviet Periphery. In: Anthropology of East Europe Review, Special Issue: Reassessing Peripheries in Post-Communist Studies (17) 2, pp. 39-52 (pdf, 240 kB)
Koehler, Jan (1999). Parallele und integrierte Rechtssysteme in einer post-sowjetischen Peripherie: Swanetien im Hohen Kaukasus. In: Alber, E. and Eckert, J. (ed.). Schlichtung von Landkonflikten durch Mediation. Berlin: Institut für Ethnologie der FU Berlin (pdf, 89kB)
Koehler, Jan (2000). Teilnehmende Beobachtung und dichte Beschreibung - Vorzüge und Tücken der Ethnographie im Gewaltreichen Umfeld. Later Version published as introduction to Koehler, Jan (2000). Die Zeit der Jungs. Zur Organisation von Gewalt und Austragung von Konflikten in Georgien. Münster, Hamburg, London: Lit Verlag, pp. 8-31 (pdf, 272 kB)
Koehler, Jan (2003). Die Schule der Straße. Georgische Cliquen zwischen Kämpfen um Ehre und organisierter Kriminalität. Later version published in Luig, U. and J. Seebode (ed.). Ethnologie der Jugend: Soziale Praxis, moralische Diskurse und inszenierte Körperlichkeit. Münster, Hamburg, London: Lit Verlag (pdf, 166 kB)
Wheatley, Jonathan (2004). Elections and Democratic Governance in the Former Soviet Union: The Case of Georgia. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 21, pp. 75-82 (pdf, 67 kB)
Wheatley, Jonathan (2004). Obstacles Impeding the Regional Integration of the Javakheti Region of Georgia. ECMI Working Paper Nr. 22, August 2004 (from ECMI Website)
Wheatley, Jonathan (2005). Obstacles Impeding the Regional Integration of the Kvemo Kartli Region of Georgia. ECMI Working Paper Nr. 23, February 2005 (from ECMI Website)
Wheatley, Jonathan (2005). Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution: Delayed Transition in the former Soviet Union. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing
Wheatley, Jonathan (2006). The Status of Minority Languages in Georgia and the Relevance of Models from other European States. ECMI Working Paper Nr. 26, March 2006 (from ECMI Website)
Wheatley, Jonathan (awaiting publication 2006). Integrating Minorities in Weak States: The Case of Georgia. Paper submitted for the yearbook of the European Centre on Minority Issues (ECMI).
Wheatley, Jonathan (forthcoming). Managing Diversity in Divided Societies: The Case of Georgia. Chapter in an edited volume by Marc Weller (eds.): An Ever Diversive Union (provisional title), to be published by Palgrave Macmillian Publishers
Karatchevo-Tcherkessia/Karbadino-Balkaria
Research Proposals
Gunya, Aleksey. Institutional Mechanisms of Conflict Avoidance at the Local and Regional Level Case Study Karbadino-Balkaria. (pdf, 181 kB)
Papers and Presentations
Gunya, Alexey (2004). Raspredelenije resursov i vlasti na lokalnom i regionalnom urovnjax. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 21, pp. 83-88 (pdf, 163 kB)
Gunya, Alexey (2005). Regionale Vielfalt und die Transformation der Konflikte im Nordkaukasus: Eine vergleichende Analyse der Republiken Kabardini-Balkarien und Karatschai-Tscherkessien (pdf, 295 kB)
Kyrgyzstan
Research Proposals
Temirkulov, Azamat. "Traditional" Institutions and New Norms and Values in the State-Building Process of CAC societies. (pdf, 35 kB)
Papers and Presentations
Temirkulov, Azamat (2004). Tribalism, Social Conflict and the State-Buidling Process in the Kyrgyz Republic. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 21, pp. 94-100 (pdf, 100 kB)
Radnitz, Scott (2005). Networks, Localism and Mobilization in Aksy, Kyrgyzstan. In: Central Asian Survey (24) 4, December 2005
Graubner, Cornelius (2005). Kyrgyzstan: Mapping the Shadow State. The Informal Political Economy in Kyrgyzstan before the "Tulip Revolution". Field Research Report, December 2005 (pdf, 225 kB) Annex 2: Akaev's Elites (pdf, 65 kB)
Tajikistan
Research Proposals
Wiegmann, Gunda. Local Institutions as a Component of the State-Buidling Process in Tajikistan. (pdf, 272 kB)
Papers and Presentations
Wiegmann, Gunda (2004). Local Political Structures and a Reflection on Field Research in Tajikistan. In: Berliner Osteuropa Info 21, pp. 89-93 (pdf, 79 kB)
Wiegmann, Gunda (2004). The Role of Local Institutions in the Statehood-Buidling Process in Tajikistan. Paper presented at the conference "Dynamics of Transformation in Central Asia - Perspectives from the Field", Rome, November 2004 (pdf, 171 kB)
Uzbekistan
Research Proposals
Sidikov, Bahodir. The Clanishness as a Basis for "Conflictive Statehood" in Contemporary Uzbekistan. (pdf, 9 kB)
Radnitz, Scott. The Pen is Mightier than the Horde. Why no large-scale Conflict in Central Asia? (pdf, 164 kB)
Papers and Presentations
Radnitz, Scott (2006). Weighting the Political and Economic Motivations for Migration in Post-Soviet Space: the Case of Uzbekistan. forthcoming in: Europe-Asia Studies
