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Babak Rezvani currently works at the National University of Uzbekistan and at the Association for the Study of EthnoGeoPolitics (Chairman), and formerly at University of Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen. Babak does research in Geography, Conflict Processes and International History and Politics. Their current project is 'Conflict Studies, Ethnic Politics, Geopolitics, Ethnogeopolitics, particularly in, but not limited to, The Middle East, The Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Syria.'
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The world in 2020 has faced hard times of endemic health crises (especially the Covid-19 corona pandemic) and wars, e.g. the Lybian, Syrian and Yemeni wars, and most recently the Karabakh war. Owing to several issues relating to the disruptions caused by Covid-19, we also have had a hard time to publish the current issue of our journal. …
Indeed, t...
This article deals with the question whether Geopolitics in general and Ethnogeopolitics in particular is still relevant in the age of globalisation. First of all, the age of globalisation is itself a controversial concept. Nevertheless the state of technology has advanced and different places in the world have become increasingly better connected...
This article discusses the recent re-eruption of the Karabakh war, which is about the ownership and control of the former Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Province and seven surrounding districts in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The parties to this conflict are the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Armenian separatists from Karabakh supported by Armenia. Nag...
This article reviews and discusses the Russian foreign policy towards several countries in the Post-Soviet Space (Tajikistan, Ukraine and Georgia), and the Middle East (Syria). The Russian policy towards its near abroad shows elements of both (neo-)realism and constructivism. A realist perspective of Russian foreign policy seems evident as Russia p...
This article discusses the ethno-political and immaterial cultural representations of Russia’s and Georgia’s Muslim minorities as reflected in their anthroponyms, toponyms, flags and coats of arms. It is obvious that Such representations reflect cultural expressions, as they may depict ethnic or religious symbols. Both Russia’s and Georgia’s attitu...
Russia, formallytheRussianFederation,hasemergedas themainsuccessor—arumpstate —of the formerSovietUnion. Inthebipolarworldorderof theColdWarera, theSoviet Unionhadattractedcritical,andat timesevenlargelynegative,attentionfromtheWestern policymakers and analysts, and those of other parts of theWorld. Arguably, after the dissolutionof theSovietUnion,...
Tajikistan and Georgia, in Central Asia and the South Caucasus respectively, are both small Soviet successor states with a recent history of political volatility and instability until the mid-2000s. Nevertheless, these independent countries have eventually developed diverging policies, notably with regard to their political alliances and world orie...
Contributions to Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics
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The way a people narrates major historical events is intimately related to the way it perceives its own identity. Emic coherence is coherence and cohesion in the self-description of a people’s identity, its presentation to the outside world. It encompasses the self-representation of identity in the present and in the past. History is an integral of...
Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia combines theory with in-depth description and systematic analyses of ethnoterritorial conflict and coexistence in Central Eurasia. Central Eurasia is at the heart of the Eurasian continent around the Caspian Sea. Much of this macro-region is made up of the post-Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus,...
Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia combines theory with in-depth description and systematic analyses of ethnoterritorial conflict and coexistence in Central Eurasia. Central Eurasia is at the heart of the Eurasian continent around the Caspian Sea. Much of this macro-region is made up of the post-Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus,...
Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia combines theory with in-depth description and systematic analyses of ethnoterritorial conflict and coexistence in Central Eurasia. Central Eurasia is at the heart of the Eurasian continent around the Caspian Sea. Much of this macro-region is made up of the post-Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus,...
The Chechen Conflict is the most fatal and protracted conflict in the post-Soviet space. While it is the most discussed conflict there, it is also the least understood. Many contradicting accounts of it exist, and still many questions remain unanswered. One reason is that the nature of this conflict has changed over time. Unlike what many - particu...
The violence between the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 has shocked many who thought of Kyrgyzstan as the most liberal country and the strongest democracy in Central Asia. That conflict, still, has not been explained and understood very well. Opposing and rival explanations often accuse one or other party, or certain obscure and even forei...
Few authors have such an intimate knowledge of the background of conflicts in Central Asia. Rezvani looks at the region from a fresh perspective. He arrives at highly relevant recommendations how the politicization of ethnicity can be avoided and how ethnic nationalism in the long run can be turned into civic nationalism. Gerd Junne: Emeritus Profe...
It is the first issue of our journal "Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics"
Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics is a journal published by "Association for Study of EthnoGeoPolitics".
Heathershaw provides an interesting study of post-conflict Tajikistan, which raises
broader questions about the constitution of political order in societies that have been
torn by violent conflict. In the conclusion he suggests that the country is characterized
by ‘order [which] is not coercive but is weakly and contingently legitimate’ (p. 173).
T...
of disciplinary perspectives gathered around the themes: Armed conflicts and conflict resolution, The Caucasus and global politics, Identities in transition, Migration and identity, Language contact and migration, and Diaspora studies. Papers from this broad spectrum of topics are represented in the volume. The languages of the conference were Engl...
Terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and the eruption of many other ethnic conflicts in the post-Soviet space cause the fear that the old Ossetian-Ingush confronta-tion may also re-emerge. Ossetians are the only indigenous Christian ethnic group in the predominantly Sunni Muslim North Caucasus. They have fought a war with the Ingush over the Pri...
The Fereydani Georgians are Shi'a Muslims, while the Georgians of Georgia are predominantly Orthodox Christians. This article deals with the mech-anism by which Fereydani Georgians reaffirm their Shi'a identity in harmony with the Iranian Georgians' role in the Iranian history. After discussing the theoretical foundation of the relationship between...
Iranian Georgians are the descendants of Georgians, who were moved to different parts of Iran from the Safavid until the early Qajar period, either voluntarily or by force. The main wave of these migrations occurred in 17th century Safavid Iran. The paper discusses some preliminary issues to the study of the Iranian Georgians, particularly as to co...
Fereydani Georgians are the only Georgian-speaking ethnic group in Iran. Despite being all that is left of the once vast and important Georgian-speaking community in Iran, this ethnic group is still largely unknown, both inside and outside Iran. There is a general consensus that Georgians have played a pivotal role in Iran's history since the seven...
Steppe Magazine is a colour magazine dedicated to Central Asia, its contemporary state of affairs and its history. It is a biannual magazine under the editorship of Summer Coish and Lucy Kelaart. Four issues have been published so far, and each issue has more than 110 pages. Central Asia, as a geographic region, is defined by Steppe Magazine as the...
Steppe Magazine is a colour magazine dedicated to Central Asia, its contemporary state of affairs and its history. It is a biannual magazine under the editorship of Summer Coish and Lucy Kelaart. Four issues have been published so far, and each issue has more than 110 pages. Central Asia, as a geographic region, is defined by Steppe Magazine as the...
voor het uitbreken van binnenlandse conflicten in Irak. Anno 2006 is de burgeroorlog een feit. Babak Rezvani graaft andermaal naar de wortels van dit conflict, dat niet zozeer draait om religie, dan wel om de verdeling van de macht tussen drie etnische groepen, de Arabische soennieten, de sjiieten en de Koerden. Identities and representations, Univ...
In Geografie van maart 2003 waarschuwde Edwin Bakker voor het uitbreken van binnenlandse conflicten in Irak. Anno 2006 is de burgeroorlog een feit. Babak Rezvani graaft andermaal naar de wortels van dit conflict, dat niet zozeer draait om religie, dan wel om de verdeling van de macht tussen drie etnische groepen, de Arabische soennieten, de sjiiete...
The demographic dominance of titular groups in their autonomous region drastically increases the probability of conflict in regions of Central Eurasia. The transborder dominance of an ethnic group may also enhance the probability of such conflicts.
In the first half of the twentieth century, and based on their own interpretation of the right to na...
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Can you please list important (recent) studies which deal with the relation between Urban art and architecture, and ethnic/national identity. I would be grateful if you could provide me with links or files of those studies.
