EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on
decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book …

This piece develops a performative take on securitization theory. It argues that rather than
seeing authority as a prerequisite for speaking security, we need to zoom in on how …

This volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia,
understanding religion as a “societal shaper”–a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving …

Few technologies have been mired in hype more than blockchain, which is the underlying
peer-to-peer network protocol for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Given the technology's …

The article contributes to a better understanding of 'Traditional Islam'(TI), a state-led project
in Azerbaijan to establish an alternative narrative promoting a specific local understanding …

This article analyses the establishment of the autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It
explains the main steps that were taken in Ukraine towards obtaining autocephaly for the …

This thesis presents a development of the concept of post-liberalism to analyse processes of
statebuilding in Central Asia by the example of Kyrgyzstan from a decolonial angle. Recent …

Although Islam is described as a fundamental aspect of Kyrgyz national identity, its
theological aspects are generally elided in nationalist discourse. However, as Islam …

We analyse the socio-economic and cultural factors that influence the timing of the first birth
in Kyrgyzstan. As in several other developing countries in Central Asia, no trend towards the …

The opening of the Soviet borders, at the turn of the 1990s, favored the penetration of new
inflows and the import of new foreign Muslim religious models in Central Asia—the majority …