Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Introduction The Post-Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia: Another South? 10

Part 1 Post-Soviet Region or Post-Colonial Countries? 19
The Origins of a Colonial Vision of Southern Russia from the Tsars to the Soviets: Selected Imperial Practices in the Caucasus 20
'Trust in Cadres' and the Party-Based Control in Central Asia During the Brezhnev Era 41
Nations and Postcolonialism in Central Asia: Twenty Years Later 64
Functional Clusters and Diverging Paths in Post-Soviet South: The Georgian Case 77

Part 2 Development, Inequalities and Poverty 93
Systemic change in two Central Asian rentier states: Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan 94
Human Capital and Inequality in Tajikistan: Intercommunication and Interdependence 114
Measures of Poverty in the Caucasus and Central Asia: International Approaches and Specificities of Southern Countries of the Former Soviet Union 137

Part 3 The Growth of Labour Migrations. Toward a New North-South Relation? 158
The Post-Soviet Space From North to South: Discontinuities, Disparities and Migrations 159
Female Migration into Russia from Central Asian Countries: Migrants Researching Migrants 180
Labour Migrations in the Omsk Region: Administrative and Economic Workforce Management Practices and Construction of New Social Relations 196

Part 4 New Global Dynamics: States and international organizations Strategies 213
The State and the Diaspora Bureaucratic and Discursive Practices in the Construction of a Transnational Community 214
Turkey's presence in Central Asia: Political and cultural tools of the Turkish presence in Central Asia or the ambiguities of a nationalist modernisation model 242
Paradox of the 'Good Governance Agenda': Geopolitical Externalities and Development Practice in Tajikistan 263