Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland
506pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, photographs, boxes, figures, bibliography, index; March 2004

Edited by S. Frederick Starr

Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet, Will Xinjiang participate in China's twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a dangerous part of the world?
This comprehensive survey of contemporary Xinjiang is the result of a major collaborative research project begun in 1998. The authors have combined their fieldwork experience, linguistic skills, and disciplinary expertise to assemble the first multifacted introduction to Xinjiang. The volume surveys the region's geography; its history of military and political subjugation to China; economic, social, and commercial conditions; demography, public health, and ecology; and patterns of adaption, resistance, opposiiton, and evolving identities.

Scholar's Guide to Washington, D.C. for Central Asia and Caucasus Studies
344pp, index.

Tigran Martirosyan and Silvia Maretti

This handbook is designed to help researchers, journalists, students, and business people to locate the rich array of Washington institutions and organizations that focus on issues pertaining to Central Asia and the Caucasus region, particularly in the post-Soviet period. The Guide includes more than 270 entries. It describes the structure and scholarly and technical resources of libraries, archives and manuscript repositories, museums and galleries, collections of sound and visual recordings, map and film collections, and the holdings of research centers and information agencies. Academic programs and departments of the metropolitan area's many institutions of higher learning are covered, along with international organizations, U.S. and foreign government agencies, association and advocacy groups, scientific organizations, publications and media operations, bookstores and online resources. An Organizations and Institutions Index enhances the Guide's usefullness.

The New Silk Roads: Transport and Trade in Greater Central Asia
510pp. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2007

Edited by S. Frederick Starr

Free, downloadable PDF files are available [here]

Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Northeast Asia
267pp. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2006

Edited by Niklas Swanström

Free, downloadable PDF files are available [here].

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Oil Window to the West
150pp. Tables, maps, figures; May 2005

Edited by S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell

This timely edited volume was published in conjunction with the opening of the BTC pipeline in Baku, Azerbaijan, on May 25, 2005. The book consists of seven chapters and 150 pages. Hard copies can be ordered at $15 including shipping and handling, at one of two addresses below. The entire volume is freely available online [click here].

The Conflict, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management and beyond: a conceptual exploration
30pp, models
Summer 2005

Niklas L.P. Swanström and Mikael Weissmann