Central Asia

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A region of Asia that includes Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; and, historically, large regions of China, including the western autonomous regions: Xinjiang Uyghur, Xixang, Ningxia Hui, Nei Monggol, and inner (western) Manchuria.

This region, sparsely populated, separates the major population centers of Eastern Europe from those of East Asia and Southern Asia. At several periods, movements of people from, or out of, this region has culminated in traumatic conquests, such as those of Genghis Khan and Timur-e-Lang.

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Government

• Government (Gunnar Anzinger)
• US AID | Eurasia
• CIA World Factbook
• Country Analysis Briefs—Department of Energy EIA
• Country Studies—US Library of Congress
• US AID | Near East & Asia
• RIA Novosti

Multilateral

• Labor Statistics—International Labor Organization
• Datafinder, courtesy Population Reference Bureau
• United Nations agencies & bureaux
  • Social & Economic Data (ECOSOC)
  • Econic Comm. for Europe (ECE)
  • UNHCR: Azerbaijan | Uzbekistan | Kyrgyzstan
  • World Health Organization

News & Media

• Al-Jazeera (Qatar)
• BBC (UK)
• Dawn (Pakistan)—Excellent source on Central Asia
• Fergana (Various)—News aggregator on Uzbekistan
• Gündogar (Turkmenistan)—Human Rights in Turkmenistan
• Inform (Kyrgyzstan)
• Kommersant (Russia)—Prominent business journal of the CIS
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Western NGO w/ties to US government

NGO/University: Current Info

• Amnesty International | Central Asia
• Central Asia Page—Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Bond University | Central Asia—lecture index
• Doctors without Borders | News
• Eurasia Daily Monitor
• Eurasianet.org
• Human Rights Watch—Europe & Central Asia
• International Crisis Group | C. Asia

NGO/University: History

• Central Asia & the Caucasus—CA&CC Press—Sweden
• Central Asian Gateway—Partnership of the UNDP—CARNet—and others.
• Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI)—Johns Hopkins University
• Crisis States Research—London School of Economics
• Eurasia Research Center—Alan Fogelquist; associated with Global Geopolitics Net
• Kavkaz Center
• Silk Road Studies Program
• Prof. H. B. Paksoy—U. of Kansas
  • Alpamysh: C. Asian Identity Under Russian Rule
  • Central Asian Monuments
  • Essays on Central Asia
  • Lectures on Central Asia