2 December 2024
Collective Monograph “Oriental Studies in Central Eurasia: Eight Paths of Development”
Within the framework of the IOS RAS and MGIMO University Consortium (part of the Priority 2030 program), a collective of six researchers authored a monograph “Oriental Studies in Central Eurasia: Eight Paths of Development” (ed. by A.Y. Bykov, V.A. Kuznetsov, M.A. Suchkov).
Authors: Deputy Director of IOS RAS, Head of CAIS Prof. Vasily Kuznetsov; Head of the Laboratory for Study of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, IOS RAS, Prof. Andrey Bykov; CAIS Junior Research Fellow Aida Petrosyan; CAIS Assistant Researcher Aleksandra Novikova; Laboratory for Study of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus Assistant Researchers Mehrubon Ashurov and Hatia Khutuashvili.
The book is unique for Russian historiography as a first attempt to analyze the development of Oriental Studies, both as an academic discipline and an education profile, in post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, taking into account its origins and history in the Imperial and Soviet eras.
The authors compared main tendencies in the development of Oriental Studies in each country and identified common trends shared between several or all of them. They indicated both problematic areas and strong points in every national research school. The monograph is based on media publications, official documents and interviews with leading Oriental Studies scholars from all countries covered.
The book may be a valuable source of information for researchers in the fields of Oriental Studies and political science, historians, philologists and everyone interested in the development of Oriental Studies in the post-Soviet states.
Oriental Studies in Central Eurasia: Eight Paths of Development. A Collective Monograph. Moscow: MGIMO University; IOS RAS, 2024. 168 pp.