HAH Report
New publications on Central Asia have appeared in genres ranging from history—The Rise and Fall of Khokand, 1709-1876 by Scott Levy, and Laboratory of Socialist Development by Artemy Kalinovsky—to security studies—Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia, a compilation republishing the main articles discussing the concept of security in the region (edited by Edward Lemon), and Kemel Toktomushev’s Kyrgyzstan: Regime Security and Foreign Policy—to international relations—The European Union’s Influence in Central Asia by Olga Spaiser—and political science—State-Building in Kazakhstan by Dina Sharipova. As is often the case, anthropology offers us among the most insightful perspectives on today’s Central Asia: on legal and other modes of regulating everyday life—The Force of Customs by Judith Beyer. The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876. Central Asia in the Global AgeThe High Asia Herald is a member of High Asia Media Group — a window to High Asia and Central Asia