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  1. Who “knows better?” epistemic binaries, epistemocides and the risks of (selective) decolonisation in Central Asian narratives

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev, Abel Polese

  2. Governance first, technology second, in Japan's quiet Central Asian AI diplomacy

    Article • January 2026, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  3. From Closed Borders to Open Gates: Central Asia as a New Destination for Russian Migration after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

    Article • Central Asian Affairs, July 2025, De Gruyter

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  4. A constructivist framework for the central Asian regional security complex: identity, interests and security dynamics

    Article • International Affairs, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  5. Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context

    Article • Central Asian Survey, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  6. Beyond the Ukrainian Crisis: Prospects for U.S./Japan Foreign Policy Coordination Towards Central Asia

    Article • Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, June 2024, Project Muse

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  7. “The bones are ours, the flesh is yours”: when tradition is a constraint in academic mentorship of a contemporary Uzbekistan

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  8. Wasserpolitik in Zentralasien

    Article • osteuropa, January 2024, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  9. Central Asian International Relations in Decolonial Age

    Article • Central Asian Affairs, December 2023, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  10. Nudging not nagging: leveraging mentorship and patronage in Sino-Uzbek relations, 2017-2022

    Article • Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  11. DECISION-MAKING AND THE CONCEPTS OF TRADITIONALISM IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF JAPAN: PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS

    Article • Al-Farabi, September 2023, Institute for Philosophy, Political Science & Religion Studies of Committee Science of MES оf the RK

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  12. Reforming the Civil Service System of Japan

    Article • Qogam jane Dauir, September 2023, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies Under the President of The Republic of Kazakhstan

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  13. A Review of the Japanese Corporate Presence in Central Asia: Two Waves of Japanese Business Entry into the Central Asian Region

    Article • Central Asian Affairs, February 2023, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  14. Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

    Article • International Journal of Asian Studies, June 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  15. A Home Away from Home: Migration, Identity and ‘Sojourning’ in the Life of Uzbekistanis in Japan

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  16. The Grass is Always Greener?

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  17. Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Civil Service Reforms, Opportunities, and Challenges

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  18. Nationhood through Neighborhood? From State Sovereignty to Regional Belonging in Central Asia

    Article • Journal of Borderlands Studies, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  19. Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  20. A guest for a day? An analysis of Uzbek ‘language migration’ into the Japanese educational and labour markets

    Article • Central Asian Survey, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  21. Central Asia

    Article • October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  22. Connectivity, energy, and transportation in Uzbekistan’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia, China, South Korea, and Japan

    Article • Asia Europe Journal, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  23. Manipulating post-Soviet nostalgia: contrasting political narratives and public recollections in Central Asia

    Article • International Journal of Asian Studies, September 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  24. De-securitizing the “Silk Road”: Uzbekistan’s cooperation agenda with Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea in the post-Karimov era

    Article • Journal of Eurasian Studies, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  25. Afghanistan in 2019

    Article • Asian Survey, February 2020, University of California Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  26. Developmental State and Foreign Policy in Post-Karimov Uzbekistan

    Article • January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  27. Afghanistan in 2018

    Article • Asian Survey, February 2019, University of California Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  28. Discourses of rivalry or rivalry of discourses: discursive strategies and framing of Chinese and Japanese foreign policies in Central Asia

    Article • The Pacific Review, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  29. The Chinese Economic Pivot in Central Asia and Its Implications for the Post-Karimov Re-emergence of Uzbekistan

    Article • Asian Survey, August 2018, University of California Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  30. Japan and China in Central Asia

    Article • Japanese Journal of Political Science, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  31. Uzbekistan as Central Asian game changer? Uzbekistan’s foreign policy construction in the post-Karimov era

    Article • Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  32. Engagement and contestation: The entangled imagery of the Silk Road

    Article • Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies, March 2018, AGC Partners Ltd.

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  33. “Silk Road” as foreign policy discourse: The construction of Chinese, Japanese and Korean engagement strategies in Central Asia

    Article • Journal of Eurasian Studies, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  34. Between State and Society: The Position of the Mahalla in Uzbekistan

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  35. Introduction to Survey Research in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Tasks, Challenges and Frontiers

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  36. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  37. Social Capital Construction and Governance in Central Asia

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  38. Theoretical Implications of and Methodological Approaches to Studying Social Capital in Uzbekistan

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  39. Evaluations of Perestroika in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Public Views in Contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

    Article • December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  40. Recollecting the Soviet Past: Challenges of Data Collection on Everyday Life Experiences and Public Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia

    Article • December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  41. Stalin’s Passing Recollected

    Article • December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  42. Evaluations of perestroika in post-Soviet Central Asia: Public views in contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

    Article • Communist and Post-Communist Studies, June 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  43. Water resource management in Central Asia: a Japanese attempt to promote water resource efficiency

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Asian Development, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  44. Japan's ODA assistance scheme and Central Asian engagement: Determinants, trends, expectations

    Article • Journal of Eurasian Studies, January 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  45. Between Idealism and Pragmatism

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  46. China as Japan’s “Other” in Central Asia

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  47. Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policies toward Central Asia from a Comparative Perspective

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  48. Introduction

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  49. Japan in Central Asia

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  50. Japan’s ODA Assistance Scheme and Central Asian Engagement: Determinants, Trends, and Expectations

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  51. One Village—One Product: The Case of JICA’s Community Empowerment Project in Kyrgyzstan

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  52. Water Resource Dispute Management in Central Asia: Japanese Attempt at Water Resource Efficiency Promotion

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  53. Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia

    Article • August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  54. Religiosity and Soviet ‘modernisation’ in Central Asia: locating religious traditions and rituals in recollections of antireligious policies in Uzbekistan

    Article • Religion State & Society, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  55. Prospects for Alternative Energy Development Policy in Kazakhstan: The Case Study of Wind Power Development

    Article • April 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  56. Chinese and Japanese foreign policies towards central Asia from a comparative perspective

    Article • The Pacific Review, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  57. Dadabaev, Timur, International Relations in Central Asia

    Article • Russian and East European Studies, January 2014, Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  58. Recollections of emerging hybrid ethnic identities in Soviet Central Asia: the case of Uzbekistan

    Article • Nationalities Papers, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  59. Community Life, Memory and a Changing Nature of Mahalla Identity in Uzbekistan

    Article • Journal of Eurasian Studies, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  60. Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Regional Identity Formation from the Perspective of the Central Asia States

    Article • Journal of Contemporary China, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  61. Japan’s Search for Its Central Asian Policy

    Article • Asian Survey, June 2013, University of California Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  62. Japans Außenpolitik gegenüber Zentralasien seit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion

    Article • January 2013, Nomos Verlag

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  63. Securing Central Asian Frontiers: Institutionalisation of Borders and Inter-state Relations

    Article • Strategic Analysis, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  64. The Evolution of Japanese Diplomacy towards Central Asia since the Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Article • January 2012, Nomos Verlag

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  65. Power, Social Life, and Public Memory in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

    Article • Inner Asia, June 2010, Brill

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  66. How does transition work in Central Asia? Coping with ideological, economic and value system changes in Uzbekistan

    Article • Central Asian Survey, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  67. Trajectories of Political Development and Public Choices in Turkmenistan

    Article • Asian Affairs An American Review, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  68. Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia: A Cross-Cultural Analysis and Sourcebook Based on the AsiaBarometer Survey of 2003, edited by Takashi Inoguchi, Miguel Basáñez, Akihiko Tanaka and Timur Dadabaev. Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 2005, 503 pp. + CD-ROM, $45...

    Article • Social Science Japan Journal, July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  69. Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia: A Cross-Cultural Analysis and Sourcebook Based on the AsiaBarometer Survey of 2003. Edited by Takashi Inoguchi, Miguel Basánez, Akihiko Tanaka, and Timur Dadabaev. Tokyo: University of Tokyo, Institute of Oriental ...

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, May 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Timur Dadabaev

  70. Post-Soviet realities of society in Uzbekistan

    Article • Central Asian Survey, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev