This dissertation explores Soviet efforts to transform the social and physical landscape of the USSR. It looks at the process of building socialism through the prism of urban development in Tashkent, the multi-ethnic capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. It shows how S…
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This dissertation develops a framework for understanding the alignment patterns of states of the former Soviet Union (FSU) vis-à-vis Russia. The framework challenges traditional alignment theories, such as balance of power and balance of threat theories, and suggests that these …
This dissertation studies the six "Islamic" republics of the Soviet Union--Azerbaidzhan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan--and their relationship to statistical Soviet norms. The dissertation focuses on different eras of Soviet history: from the l…
This thesis examines the role of securitizing discourses in the Karimov regime's nation-building project since Uzbekistan's independence in 1991, which has been termed the "Ideology of National Independence". It examines how has the elite vision of Uzbekistani identity been disc…
Effective physician-patient communication is primary to successful medical consultation and encourages a collaborative interactional process between patient and doctor. Collaborative communication, rather than one-way authoritarian, physician-led medical interview, is significan…
The existing studies on Uzbek women suggest that they have little knowledge about their reproductive health and rights. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, the status of Uzbek women has been adversely affected by revived social traditions. It became difficult for women to practice…
In this dissertation I explore the effects of domestic and international pressures on human rights accountability in states undergoing profound political transformations. My work is rooted in theories of democratization and transitional justice (those legal responses to a former…
This study will examine the written works of Ahmad ibn Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Khwājagī Kāsānī, known as "Makhdūm-i A`zam", who lived in what is now Uzbekistan, dying in 1542 CE. Although he considered himself a part of a Sūfī order called the Khwājagān, the modern name, the Naqshb…
In Uzbekistan, as in most countries of the former Soviet Union, the medical discipline of narcology is a subspecialty of psychiatry from the Soviet era that focuses on treatment of problematic use of alcohol and illicit drugs. An institution of the Uzbek Ministry of Health, oper…
This thesis investigates approaches to the conservation and management of earthen architecture. Earthen architecture is studied as a class of material, found worldwide, that shares similar properties, maintenance needs and conservation requirements. The similarities associated w…
The penetrated political system theory has been applied to small states and the Middle East region in order to explain the effects that global powers have had on these countries. Various scholars of the penetrated political system theory argued that this theory could not apply t…
This dissertation addresses the interplay between the shifts in "reference societies" accompanied by the changes in foreign policy climate in a given developing country's context, on one end, and individual choices of local nationals to pursue their education in a "former ally" …
As part of the INTAS funded CLIMAN project into Holocene climatic variability and the evolution of human settlement in the Aral Sea basin, fossil diatoms obtained from Chernyshov Bay in the Aral Sea have been examined in order to reconstruct conductivity and lake level change si…
This dissertation argues that identity becomes politically salient because of local competition among existing and aspiring group elites for political patronage. Elite competition within the ethnic group is a result of a two stage process whereby the existing ethnic elite and th…
This dissertation defines and discusses Muslim female practitioners, otinchalar, in the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan), who through religious education and practice become the leaders of Muslim women. The dissertation examines the ways in which religious networks of local otinchal…
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the government of Uzbekistan effectively crushed an active opposition social movement while Tajikistan fell into a violent civil war. By 1997, Uzbekistan was considered a success for preserving stability by authoritarian means, but…
This dissertation asks how we can explain the occurrence of civil war in Tajikistan and, contrary to what the theories and explanations of violent conflict in the literature lead us to expect, its absence in Uzbekistan. The factors cited in the literature on violent conflict in …
This thesis offers a revaluation of the role played by Akramiya and Islam in the events of 13 May 2005 in Andijan. Using Scott's concept of the hidden transcript coupled with a Marxist analysis of the Uzbek state, this thesis suggests that the insistence on public conformity dem…
This thesis looks at competing influences in Central Asia since 1991. It looks at all five Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, and identifies the three main powers with competing influences as Russia, Islam and America. It ai…