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  1. Developing brand- and PR-building strategy for media education

    Article • Herald of Journalism, December 2025, al-Farabi Kazakh National University

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  2. Paradigms, Structures, and Simulations: Advancing Theory Building and Model Testing in Management Science

    Article • Virtual Economics, March 2025, The London Academy of Science and Business Limited

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  3. Marketing Communications in the Era of Digital Transformation

    Article • Virtual Economics, March 2023, The London Academy of Science and Business Limited

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  4. Framing a Regional Spatial Development Perspective: The Relation between Health and Regional Performance

    Article • Virtual Economics, December 2022, The London Academy of Science and Business Limited

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  5. Digital Transformation of a Country’s Image: The Case of the Astana International Finance Centre in Kazakhstan

    Article • Virtual Economics, September 2022, The London Academy of Science and Business Limited

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  6. International Migration Drivers: Economic, Environmental, Social, and Political Effects

    Article • Sustainability, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  7. Redefining global citizenship education: a case study of Kazakhstan

    Article • Journal of Philosophy Culture and Political Science, March 2021, al-Farabi Kazakh National University

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  8. Engaging in the internationalization of education and SDGs: Case study on the global hub of UNAI on sustainability

    Article • E3S Web of Conferences, January 2021, EDP Sciences

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  9. Digital Transformation of Organizational Culture under Conditions of the Information Economy

    Article • Virtual Economics, January 2020, The London Academy of Science and Business Limited

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  10. Education for sustainable development and ict: The case of mdp program at al-farabi kaznu

    Article • Herald of Journalism, January 2020, al-Farabi Kazakh National University

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  11. The New Media Development in Kazakhstan; Konvergentnaya zhurnalistika; Mediinaya i informatsionnaya gramotnost': kontseptual'nye i metodologicheskie osnovaniya

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  12. Upravlenie vysshim obrazovaniem i naukoi: opyt, problemy, perspektivy; Vysshee yuridicheskoe obrazovanie v Kazakhstane v 21 veke: reformy, problemy i perspektivy; Sistema vysshego technicheskogo obrazovaniya Kazakhstana: dvizhenie po spirali

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  13. Book Review: The Public Relations of Everything: The Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Dramatic History of an Idea (Routledge New Directions in Public Relations and Communication Research) by Robert E. BrownThe Public Relations of Everything: The Ancient,...

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, May 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  14. Book Review: Visual Culture and Public Policy: Towards a Visual Polity? by Victor Bekkers and Rebecca MoodyVisual Culture and Public Policy: Towards a Visual Polity?BekkersVictorMoodyRebecca. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. 242 pp. $140 hbk.

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  15. Politicheskaya mysl suverennogo Kazakhstana: dinamika, idei, otsenki

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  16. Erratum

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  17. Book Review: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1929, by Xiaoqun Xu

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  18. Vizual'nyi arkhetip

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  19. Kazakhskoie igrovoie kino: Ekranno-follornie traditsii i obraz geroia

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  20. HIGHER EDUCATION GOVERNANCE AND POLICY CHANGE IN WESTERN EUROPE: INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES TO HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONS

    Article • Public Administration, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  21. Book Review: Culture and the Media, by Paul Bowman

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  22. Book Review: Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice, by Nick Couldry

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  23. Yelena Burova and Anatoli Kosichenko,Aktual’nyye problemy religioznoi situatsii v Respublike Kazakhstan[Current issues in the religious situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan]

    Article • Religion State & Society, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  24. Ethnic Minorities of Central and Eastern Europe in the Internet Space. A Computer-Assisted Content Analysis

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  25. Book Review: Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practice, edited by A. Aneesh, Lane Hall, and Patrice Petro

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  26. Book Review: The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media, by José Van Dijck

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  27. Kazakh Oneri: 5 Tomdyk

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  28. Megabits Versus Wahhabits: Kazakhstan's Policy on Islamic Content on the Internet

    Article • Asian Politics & Policy, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  29. Intellektual'nyi kapital-osnova razvitiya obchestva znaniya and Ot intellektual'noi natsii-k intellektualnomu potentsialu

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  30. Na perekrestke kommunikatsyi: zhurnalistika, media Kazakhstana; Novie media v mire i Kazakhstane

    Article • Central Asian Survey, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  31. Ideologicheskoe konstruirovanie v Respublike Kazakhstan

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  32. Sistemnaya modernizatsia: instituty, upravlenie i scenarii and Regionalnaya integratsia i imperativy innovatsionnogo razvitia Kyrgyzstana

    Article • Central Asian Survey, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  33. Book Review: Poles Apart: The International Reporting of Climate Scepticism, by James Painter

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  34. Book Review: iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era, by Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  35. Ideia nezavisimosti v izobrazitelnom iskusstve Kazakhstana

    Article • Central Asian Survey, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  36. Tsentral'naya Aziya segodnya: vizovi i ugrozy/Tsentral'naya Aziya v zarubezhnoi politologii i mirovoi geopolitike. Tom IV. Geopolitika XXI veka

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  37. Istoriya obshestvenno-kyltyrnogo reformatorstva na Kavkaze i v Tsentralnoi Azii (XIX -nachalo XX veka) [History of social and cultural reformation in the Caucasus and Central Asia (XIX – start of XX century)]

    Article • Central Asian Survey, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  38. Strategia protsvetania strani v usloviyakh meniauchegosia mira. Uroki mirovogo krizisa I modernizatsia Kazakhstanskoi ekonomiki

    Article • Central Asian Survey, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  39. Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World by Ian Bremmer

    Article • March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  40. Book Review: Public Relations in Global Cultural Contexts: Multi-Paradigmatic Perspectives, edited by Nilanjana Bardhan and C. Kay Weaver

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  41. Book Review: Show Me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication 2nd Ed by Chris Roush

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  42. Rio+20: Discussing Environmental Issues Online in Kazakhstan

    Article • Asian Politics & Policy, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  43. Kremlin Tunes Its Foreign Policy: Will Putin's New Russia Reconfigure Its Policy Toward China and Central Asia?

    Article • Asian Politics & Policy, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  44. Teuelsizdik kezenindegi kazak opera teatri

    Article • Central Asian Survey, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  45. Zolotaia Zhila: Ocherki o folklore i duhovnoi kulture Kazakhstana [Golden vein: essays on the folklore and spiritual culture of Kazakhstan]

    Article • Central Asian Survey, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  46. Observing the Global Financial Crisis From the Developing World: The Case of Kazakhstan (http://pm.kz/en/blog in English; http://pm.kz/kz/blog in Kazakh; http://pm.kz/ru/blog in Russian)

    Article • Asian Politics & Policy, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  47. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia. By Rafis Abazov. pp. xvii, 125. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  48. Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray – And How to Return to Reality by Jack Matlock, Jr

    Article • December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  49. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia2009150Rafis Abazov. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia. New York, NY and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2008. xvii +124 pp., ISBN: 978 1 4039 7541 6 (hardback); 978 1 4039 7542 3...

    Article • Reference Reviews, March 2009, Emerald

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  50. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  51. The parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan, February/March 2005

    Article • Electoral Studies, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  52. The Economic Prospects of the CIS: Sources of Long Term Growth

    Article • Comparative Economic Studies, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  53. Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan2005386Rafis Abazov. Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press 2005. civ+240 pp. $65, ISBN: 0 8108 5362 0

    Article • Reference Reviews, October 2005, Emerald

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  54. Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia

    Article • February 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  55. The parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, February 2000

    Article • Electoral Studies, September 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  56. The 1999 Presidential Elections in Kazakhstan

    Article • Electoral Studies, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  57. The 1998 Elections in Brazil

    Article • Electoral Studies, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  58. The Shifting Identities and Loyalties in Kyrgyzstan: The Evidence from the Field

    Article • Nationalities Papers, June 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  59. Policy of economic transition in Kyrgyzstan

    Article • Central Asian Survey, June 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  60. Economic Migration in Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan

    Article • Post-Communist Economies, June 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  61. Central Asia's conflicting legacy and ethnic policies: Revisiting a crisis zone of the former USSR

    Article • Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, June 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  62. Book reviews

    Article • Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, September 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  63. Reviews

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, March 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  64. Formation of the non‐state sector and privatisation in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

    Article • Communist Economies and Economic Transformation, December 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  65. The Disintegration of the Economy of Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Period

    Article • Russian Politics and Law, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  66. The balkanization of the economy of the Central Asian republics and its impact on the non-state sector

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, December 1996, Wiley

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  67. 20. KAZAKHSTAN’S SECURITY CHALLENGES IN A CHANGING WORLD

    Article • Emerald

    Professor Rafis Abazov

  68. The Economic and Financial Crises in CEE and CIS: Gender Perspectives and Policy Choices

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Rafis Abazov