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This study evaluates the prospects for continuity and change of People's Republic of China's role in Central Asia in relation with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). There have been significant global, regional, and national events between 2020 and 2022, which might alter China's position in Central Asia. The possibility of change can be estimated by examining the developments so far. China's position in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are taken here as examples for China's role. The One Belt One Road initiative, renamed in 2016 as the BRI, presents multiple trade routes, some of which pass through ...More
In the last two decades, Kyrgyzstan has searched for stability while swinging on a pendulum between democratic reforms and suppression of democracy. Political changes in Kyrgyzstan started with the liberal democratic promises of President Akayev in 1990 and President Bakiyev in 2005, but they both ended with disillusionment. The state's capacity had to be reestablished in the post-Soviet period, which was sought to be institutionalized by authoritarian measures. The failure of the authoritarian path proves that the people of Kyrgyzstan are more open to a parliamentary democracy, where the mult ...More
History education has a crucial role in training the future generations. Each nation-state teaches history according to necessities of forming national identities for its citizens. After the dissolution of the USSR, following the fail demise of the common identity, New Soviet Man, newly independent Central Asian states moved to find distinct national identities for their citizens. During the Soviet period the historiography was based on territoriality within the driven borders. The common past, however, cannot be delimited to contemporary borders. Kazakh and Uzbek peoples consist of some simil ...More
Bu çalışmada Özbekistan’ın bağımsızlık sonrasında kurmaya giriştiği tarih anlayışı ve millî ideoloji üstünde durulacaktır. Bağımsız Özbekistan’ın kuruluş dönemi olarak adlandırılabilecek Kerimov yılları Özbekistan’ın meşruiyetini tarihten alan millî ideolojisinin şekillendiği dönemdir ve bugün bu temel üstünden devam edilmektedir. Özbekistan’ın toplumsal zihniyetinin ve reflekslerinin kavranması için Kerimov döneminde tarih yardımıyla oluşan millî kimliğin anlaşılması gereklidir. Özbekistan’da tarihçilik yaklaşımının en temel unsurlarından biri teritoryal (toprak) tarih anlayışıdır. Burada SSC ...More
Kyrgyzstan conceptualized and introduced a new national holiday, “the History and Commemoration of Ancestors”, by a presidential decree, in 2017. This holiday incorporates November 7, the Day of October Revolution, and November 8, and it aims to remember the significant historical events in the history of the Kyrgyz people and commemorate their ancestors. In this study, the introduction discussions and development of this “invented tradition” is documented, described, analyzed and interpreted. The classified themes of news and frequencies of mentioned historical events demonstrate which subjec ...More