This is a special issue on Turkmenistan prepared by Luca Anceschi and Sébastien Peyrouse. It also contains general articles about China's policy towards Afghanistan, cross-border pipelines, the use of traditional medicine in Uzbekistan, the U.S.-Russia "military airbase race" in Central Asia, and labor migration from Central Asia to Russia.
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Editors' Note
Luca Anceschi and Sébastien Peyrouse
Special Issue: Turkmenistan
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Turkmenistan: Permanent Transition or Elusive Stability?
Steven Sabol
Changes in the Political Elite in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan
Slavomír Horák
Berdymukhammedov’s Turkmenistan: A Modest Shift in Domestic and Social Politics
Sébastien Peyrouse
Turkmenistan: A Promised Land for Doing Business? Macroeconomic Reforms under Berdymukhammedov
Jan Sír
External Conditionality, Domestic Insulation and Energy Security: The International Politics of Post-Niyazov Turkmenistan
Luca Anceschi
General
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China’s Policy on the Conflict in Afghanistan
Pan Guang
Towards a New Framework for Cross-Border Pipelines: The International Pipeline Agency
Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky
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National Identity and Invented Tradition: The Rehabilitation of Traditional Medicine in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Sophie Hohmann
The Geopolitical Consequences of the U.S.-Russian “Military Airbase Race” in Central Asia
Fabio Indeo
Labor Migration From Central Asia To Russia: Mutual Social Perception in the Orenburg Oblast
Igor Savin
