The Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus) is a recognized pest in Central Asia, and annually inflicts widespread damage in pastoral areas. D. maroccanus females tend to strongly aggregate during egg-laying, which means that their mass oviposition sites constitute the outbrea…
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The countries of post-Soviet Central Asia share remarkable similarities: they came into existence at the same time, have since undergone similar processes and challenges in establishing statehood, are culturally related to each other, share similar historical paths, and have nea…
A major problem for irrigated agricultural production in arid and semi-arid environments is salinization of land. Irrigated land accounts for about one third of the world's food, but nearly one fifth of irrigated lands are salt affected and suffer from reduced yield due to soil …
Access to quality water is a constraint and a source of waterborne diseases among the rural population of Uzbekistan. To address the need for quality water the government cooperates with many international financial and development organizations to address this problem. “Enhance…
Aquaculture is currently the world's fastest growing animal-producing sector. The Khorezm province in southwestern Uzbekistan has over 450 small lakes that could be developed for aquaculture, diversifying the local economy and providing rural communities with an additional sourc…
This dissertation presents an archaeological investigation of the Aral Sea region, ca. AD 300-800. The Aral Sea is a large, brackish lake in Central Asia, located in the modern states of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The sea and its deltas provide critical resources in an arid dese…
The internet is has grown exponentially in Central Asian during the last decade. Political turmoil, media censorship, and the unique social and economic characteristics rooted in traditional culture and informed by the Soviet experience have informed the development of the inter…
This dissertation is a case study of the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) in the ex-Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan during the five year period of 1990-1995. The IRP is analyzed within the framework of the categories of parallel and official Islam and the two main b…
The independent Republic of Uzbekistan inherited an agrarian economy more suited to supplying foreign demands than to feeding, clothing and employing its own people. Neither the agricultural infrastructure nor the farmland and water resources of the country has been prepared for…
The politicization of regional cleavages across the multi-ethnic, newly-independent states of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, and the variation in design of electoral systems that developed in response to them present two integrally related empirical puzzles: (1) why was…
This work is an anatomy of the nationalist challenge to incumbent power in the Soviet Union Republics and of its continuing reverberations in the successor states during the tumultuous years from 1988–1994. It is a study of commonality and variation. Similarities are readily app…
This dissertation seeks to explain variation in political liberalization among three post-communist Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. These countries share several common political outcomes such as the dominance of the executive and a high degree o…
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…
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…
My dissertation comparatively analyzes three puzzling cases of political transition—democratization in Kyrgyzstan, neo-authoritarianism in Uzbekistan, and regime disintegration in Tajikistan—which typify different trajectories in the post-Soviet and other post-colonial states. I…
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a popular Western attitude characterized the inevitable changes within the post-Soviet constituent republics as leading toward transition from Communism to Capitalism. The transition to the latter would take place over the course of …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between the Sariq Turkmens, a semi-nomadic tribe occupying the Merv oasis in southern Turkmenistan in tile first half of the nineteenth century, and the Khanate of Khiva, a sedentary Uzbek state centered in Khorezm. The research is…
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…