The scope of this study is limited to the following former Soviet republics: Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. These were the least developed and most peripheral of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USSR. The current interes…
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Why does democratization cause some ethnic regions of a multinational state to secede but not others? This dissertation argues that democratization traps regionally concentrated nationality groups in an "ethnic security dilemma" since it forces regional leaders to compete for lo…
This study focuses on the nature of social and economic interaction among Late Bronze Age (c.1800–1500 BC) pastoralists of the mountainous steppes of Semirech'ya (eastern Kazakhstan). This period is typically documented in terms of various regional archaeological culture groups …
With the end of the Cold War the United States became the sole superpower. When confronted with such a situation a hegemon has historically chosen to transform the system. U.S. administrations have chosen this option by pursuing a policy of “enlargement.” By supporting the devel…
The translation of the imaginary into the concrete is a project of both art and politics, especially in state and nation-making. The goal of using image and celebration in the service of politics has been perpetuated in post-Soviet Kazakhstan as the ideal of multiethnic harmony …
To become an independent nation after the Soviet Union's collapse, the ruling Kazakh elite and Kazakh language medium school administrators struggle to restore ethnic nationality consciousness, consolidate the Kazakhs' political power at the government and school levels, and imp…
This thesis looks at US oil policy in the Caspian Sea region from 1998 to 2001. The US policy tries to gain influence in the region by supporting completion of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, without having a physical presence in, border on, or a long-standing policy for …
How do different opportunity structures influence Russian minority responses, such as varied rates of exit (emigration) and varied degrees of voice (political mobilization), to post-Soviet challenges? What accounts for variation in type of Russian voice? Russian minority politic…
This dissertation examines how the nature of state break-up affects the simultaneous processes of regional cooperation and state formation in transitional settings. By situating state formation within the context of the international system, I develop a model to integrate domest…
The five Central Asian states, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, have already experienced one regime change as they moved from Soviet to post-Soviet systems, and it is unlikely that this will be the only change to occur. Because democracy has trium…
Hepatitis A remains one of the most frequently reported vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States, and much of the world is at high risk of infection with hepatitis A virus. A comparative trial of hepatitis A vaccine versus immune globulin for postexposure prophylaxis is…
This dissertation provides a synchronic description of the German dialects as spoken in German speech islands in the former Soviet Union, particularly in Russia and Kazakhstan. The German speech islands were founded in the second half of the 18th century by settlers from Germany…
This study examines state-society relations in post-communist Kazakhstan from a civil society perspective. It discusses in detail the historical developments that shaped the growth and decline of civil society development. In contrast to the studies of democratization, which ass…
Rapid cost escalation and structural change have created new incentives for health care providers in every country. In the United States, the hospital sector has experienced the growth of managed care, formation of provider networks, and the increased specialization of hospitals…
This dissertation is a contribution to the social history of the Soviet Union during the 1950s. It is a study of the opening of the Virgin Lands, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's project to settle and to open up to cultivation new lands in Siberia and Kazakstan. It focuses on a…
This dissertation examines the way in which the Kazakhstani state redefined its role in managing oil and gas resources between 1992 and 1998. The governments of hydrocarbon-rich post-Soviet republics such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan faced the common chall…
Most transition countries have an informal sector that can range from 25 to 80 percent of GDP. An informal sector is defined as those economic activities that have no official registration and, as such, they have a tendency to be ungoverned by legal codes. Agents from the inform…
After Kazakhstan gained its independence from the USSR in December 1991, the Republic instituted a number of political, social, and economic reforms to confront the new realities. The reforms were not introduced immediately though. Eventually, in 1993 the Republic engaged in a s…
From 1949 through 1989 nuclear weapons testing was carried out by the former Soviet Union at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (SNTS), which resulted in local fallout affecting the residents of Semipalatinsk, Ust-Kamenogorsk, and Pavlodar regions of Kazakhstan. In order to det…