Raps Abazov. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia

About the Author

afis Abazov is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Harriman

Institute/School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia

University, New York. Rafis Abazov's area of expertise is in the field of

modern Central Asian and Russian/Soviet politics and history. His

research and teaching interests include public policy and governance, the

history of cultural development and population movement in the Russian

Empire and Soviet Union with a focus on Central Asia, and comparative

history of Central Asia and the Middle East. He was awarded the NATO

research fellowship for research on foreign policy formation in Central

Asia; the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University

research fellowship and a British Academy visiting fellowship.

Rafis Abazov has written five books and a number of other publica-

tions on economic and political development in Eurasia. His most recent

books include Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan (Scarecrow Press, 2004),

Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan (Scarecrow Press, 2005), The Culture

and Customs of the Central Asian Republics (Greenwood Press, 2007) and

The Culture and Customs of Turkey (Greenwood Press, 2008). His research

articles were published in various academic journals including Eurasian

Studies, The Central Asian Survey, Nationalities Papers, Post-Communist

Economies and some others. He has also contributed articles to the

Encyclopaedia of Modern Asia (2003), the Encyclopaedia of Nationalism

(2001), the Encyclopaedia of National Economies (2002) and some others.