Social Capital Construction and Governance in Central Asia

Timur Dadabaev is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Tsukuba, Japan and Director of Combined MA and Ph.D. Program in Central Eurasian Studies.Murod Ismailov is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.Yutaka Tsujinaka is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

• Theoretical implications of and methodological approaches to studying social capital in Uzbekistan.- Introduction to Survey Research in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Tasks, Challenges and Frontiers.- Domestic Discourse on Civil Society and Social Capital.- Between state and society: The position of the Mahalla in Uzbekistan.- Social Capital and Liberal Democracy.- Civil society and environmental issues.- Weaknesses and capacities of domestic NGOs.- Comparing two Asian perspectives: Nurturing social capital in Uzbekistan and Japan.