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Volume 15 Number1 March 1996 Notes on contributors When National Ambition Conflicts With Reality: studies on Kazakhstan’s ethnic relations Jiger Janabel Nation-building in Uzbekistan Shahram Akbarzadeh Le Pakistan traverse une nouvelle période d’ instabilité Witt Raczka The Economic Cooperation Organization: towards a new silk road on the ruins of the Cold War? Bruno De Cordier Poverty and Transition in Kyrgyzstan: how some horseholds cope Jude Howell Women of the Sedentary Population of Russian Turkestan Through the Eyes of Western Travellers Colette Harris International Reaction to the Chechen Crisis Taras Kuzio Documents from United Nations Commission on Human Rights Sub- Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities: Forty-seventh session Document |: Statement on Behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples: agenda item 13 Presented by Aslambek Kadiev Document 2: Statement by Pax Christi International and the Society for Threatened Peoples Presented by Michael C. van Walt van Praag Council of the Federation, Parliament of the Russian Federation: Deputy, State Duma 1993-1995 Presented by Yurii Kalmykov Book reviews Circle of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology Volume 15 Number1 March 1996 Notes on contributors When National Ambition Conflicts With Reality: studies on Kazakhstan’s ethnic relations Jiger Janabel Nation-building in Uzbekistan Shahram Akbarzadeh Le Pakistan traverse une nouvelle période d’ instabilité Witt Raczka The Economic Cooperation Organization: towards a new silk road on the ruins of the Cold War? Bruno De Cordier Poverty and Transition in Kyrgyzstan: how some horseholds cope Jude Howell Women of the Sedentary Population of Russian Turkestan Through the Eyes of Western Travellers Colette Harris International Reaction to the Chechen Crisis Taras Kuzio Documents from United Nations Commission on Human Rights Sub- Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities: Forty-seventh session Document |: Statement on Behalf of the Society for Threatened Peoples: agenda item 13 Presented by Aslambek Kadiev Document 2: Statement by Pax Christi International and the Society for Threatened Peoples Presented by Michael C. van Walt van Praag Council of the Federation, Parliament of the Russian Federation: Deputy, State Duma 1993-1995 Presented by Yurii Kalmykov Book reviews Circle of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology Number 2 Notes on contributors Turkey and Central Asia: challenges of change Mustafa Aydin The trouble with democracy in Kazakhstan lan Bremmer and Cory Welt The state and rural-based rebellion in Afghanistan Hafizullah Emadi The Tajiks of Uzbekistan Richard Foltz The role of culture, history and language in Turkish national identity building: an overemphasis on Central Asian roots Didem Mersin Alici Sefarat Name-ye Khwarezm—the last Iranian mission to Central Asia in the 19th century Ali Granmayeh CHECHNYA FILE The problems of medical relief in the Chechen war zone Francois Jean DOCUMENTS Appendix to Documents from the KGB archive in Sukhum. Abkhazia in the Stalin Years Translated with a preface and epilogue by George Hewitt BOOK REVIEWS CENTRAL ASIA NOTICEBOARD Number 3/4 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS National reconciliation: the imperfect whim Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh Islam in Romania Gyorgy Lederer Regional integration in Central Asia: current economic position and prospects Heribert Dieter Civil society and sustainable development in Central Asia Douglas Saltmarshe Conflits ethniques et dégradation écologique en Asie centrale. La vallée de Ferghana et le nord du Kazakhstan Bruno de Cordier An oasis for peace: Zhang Zhizhong’s policy in Xinjiang, 1945-1947 David D. Wang BOOK REVIEWS PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED CENTRAL ASIAN NOTICEBOARD Author Index Akbarzadeh, Shahram, 23 Janabel, Jiger, 5 Alici, Didem Mersin, 217 Jean, Frangois, 255 Aydin, Mustafa, 157 Kuzio, Taras, 97 Bremmer, Ian, 179 Cordier, Bruno de, 47, 399 Lederer, Gyorgy, 349 Dieter, Heribert, 369 Raczka, Witt, 33 Emadi, Hafizullah, 201 Saltmarshe, Douglas, 387 Granmayeh, Ali, 233 ai Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou, 325 Harris, Colette, 75 Hewitt, George, 259 Wang, David D., 413 Howell, Jude, 59 Welt, Cory, 179