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Isaacs, Rico (2023) The Political Economy of Hipsters in Kazakhstan: Mobilisation, Hybridity and Class. Globalizations . ISSN 1474-7731

Isaacs, Rico (2022) Multitudes and Exile in Populist Ecologies. Political Geography . ISSN 0962-6298

Isaacs, Rico and Rudzite, Liga (2021) Conceptualising Culture Wars in the Post-Communist Space: Latvia, the Istanbul Convention and the Struggle for Power. Europe Asia Studies . ISSN 0966-8136

Isaacs, Rico, Wheatley, Jonathan and Whitmore, Sarah (2021) Culture Wars in the Post-Soviet Space. Europe-Asia Studies, 73 (8). pp. 1407-1417. ISSN 0966-8136

Isaacs, Rico (2021) Vico and Populism: the return to a ‘barbarism of reflection’. ProtoSociology, 37 . ISSN 1434-4319

Isaacs, Rico (2020) The Role of Party Interest Articulation in the Personalist-Authoritarian Regimes of the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Problems of Post-Communism, 67 (4-5). pp. 375-387. ISSN 1075-8216

Isaacs, Rico (2020) Russia–Kazakhstan Relations and the Tokayev–Nazarbayev Tandem. Russian Analytical Digest (248). pp. 2-5. ISSN 1863-0421

Isaacs, Rico (2019) Editorial. Central Asian Survey, 38 (4). pp. 443-445. ISSN 0263-4937

Isaacs, Rico and Bougdaeva, Salgar (2018) Nomads under arrest: The nation-building and nation-destroying of Kalmyk nomads in Russia. Communist and post-Communist Studies, 51 (4). pp. 375-385. ISSN 0967-067X

Isaacs, Rico (2018) The micro-politics of norm contestation between the OSCE and Kazakhstan: square pegs in round holes. Third World Quarterly, 39 (9). pp. 1831-1847. ISSN 0143-6597

Isaacs, Rico and Molnar, Adam (2017) Island in the neoliberal stream: energy security and soft re-nationalisation in Hungary. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 25 (1). pp. 107-126. ISSN 1478-2804

Isaacs, Rico (2015) The Routinization of Charisma in Central Asia: The cases of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Studies in Transition States and Societies, 7 (1). pp. 58-76. ISSN 1736-8758

Isaacs, Rico and Polese, Abel (2015) ) Between 'Imagined' and 'Real' Nation-building: Identities and nationhood in post-Soviet Central Asia. Nationalities Papers, 43 (3). pp. 371-382. ISSN 0090-5992

Isaacs, Rico (2015) Nomads, Warriors and Bureaucrats: Nation-Building and Film in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Nationalities Papers, 43 (3). pp. 399-416. ISSN 0090-5992

Isaacs, Rico (2014) Neopatrimonialism and Beyond! Reassessing the formal and informal in the study of Central Asian Politics. Contemporary Politics, 20 (2). pp. 229-245. ISSN 1356-9775

Isaacs, Rico and Whitmore, Sarah (2014) The Limited Agency and Life-cycles of Personalised Dominant Parties in the post-Soviet space: the cases of United Russia and Nur Otan. Democratization, 21 (4). pp. 699-721. ISSN 1351-0347

Isaacs, Rico (2013) Bringing the ‘formal’ back in: Nur Otan, informal networks and the countering of elite instability in Kazakhstan. Europe-Asia Studies, 65 (6). pp. 1055-1079. ISSN 0966-8136

Isaacs, Rico (2011) Elite Fragmentation and Pro-presidential Consolidation: Party Development, Type and Causality in Kazakhstan. Journal of East European & Asian Studies . ISSN 2065-9970

Isaacs, Rico (2010) Papa’ Nazarbayev: The Discourse of Charismatic Leadership and Nation-Building in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 10 (3). pp. 435-452. ISSN 1473-8481

Isaacs, Rico (2010) Informal Politics and the Uncertain Context of Transition: Revisiting Early Stage Non-Democratic Development in Kazakhstan. Democratization, 17 (1). pp. 1-25. ISSN 1351-0347

Isaacs, Rico (2008) Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan, August 2007. Electoral Studies . pp. 381-385. ISSN 0261-3794

Isaacs, Rico (2008) Managing Dissent, Limiting Risk and Consolidating Power: The Processes and Results of Constitutional Reform in Kazakhstan. Central Asia and the Caucasus, 44 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1404-6091

Review

Isaacs, Rico (2023) The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925–1991. An Uneasy Legacy. Lanham, MD & London: Lexington Books, 2021, by Peter Rollberg. Europe-Asia Studies . ISSN 0966-8136

Isaacs, Rico (2022) Parliamentary representation in Central Asia: MPs between representing their voters and serving an authoritarian regime, by Esther Somfalvy. Central Asian Survey . ISSN 0263-4937

Isaacs, Rico (2022) Review of Bob Dylan at 80: It used to go like that, and now it goes like this. The European Legacy . ISSN 1084-8770

Isaacs, Rico (2008) Book Review: Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia by Kathleen Collins,. Totalitarianism and Democracy, 5 (1). pp. 129-133. ISSN 612-9008

Book Section

Isaacs, Rico (2022) Introduction: 40 Years of Central Asian Survey. In: A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies 40 Years of Central Asian Survey. Routledge. ISBN 9781032060194

Isaacs, Rico and Marat, Erica (2021) Introducing Central Asian Studies. In: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9780367178406

Isaacs, Rico (2021) Tengrism. In: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9780367178406

Isaacs, Rico (2019) The Kazakhstan Now! Hybridity and Hipsters in Almaty: Negotiating Global and Local Lives. In: The Nazarbayev Generation Youth in Kazakhstan. Rowan & Littlefield, pp. 227-24. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Isaacs, Rico and Du Boulay, Sofya (2019) Legitimacy and Legitimation in Central Asia: cases of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. In: Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power. International Political Theory Series . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Isaacs, Rico and Frigerio, Alessandro (2019) Political Theory and Central Asia. In: Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power. International Political Theory Series . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Isaacs, Rico and Frigerio, Alessandro (2019) Postscript: Dude Where’s My Theory? In: Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Isaacs, Rico and Polese, Abel (2018) Between ‘imagined’ and ‘real’ nation-building: Identities and Nationhood in post-Soviet Central Asia, and beyond. In: 2018. Nomos. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Isaacs, Rico and Polese, Abel (2016) ‘(Re)imagining or Imagined Nation-Building. In: Nation-Building and Identity in the post-Soviet Space: New tools and approaches. Routledge. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Isaacs, Rico (2016) Realising the Nation though film: Soviet and post-Soviet Nation-building in Kazakhstan’. In: Nation-Building and Identity in the post-Soviet Space: New tools and approaches. Routledge. ISBN 9781472454768

Isaacs, Rico and Polese, Abel (2016) 'Nation-Building in the post-Soviet Space. In: Nation-Building and Identity in the post-Soviet Space: New tools and approaches. Routledge. ISBN 9781472454768

Isaacs, Rico (2010) Kazakhstan. In: The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics: Successes and Failures. Routledge. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Paper or Report

Isaacs, Rico (2022) Reflections on 'Culture Wars'. Discussion Paper. Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES).

Isaacs, Rico (2017) Love, Adventure, and Nationhood in the Everyday. Other. Filmatique.

Isaacs, Rico (2015) Twilight of the Patriarch: Charismatic Presidentialism and Charismatic Routinisation in Kazakhstan. Other. Presidential Power Blog.

Isaacs, Rico and Carter, Todd (2013) Film and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Other. The Gadfly.

Isaacs, Rico (2009) The EU’s Rule of Law Initiative in Central Asia. Discussion Paper. EUCAM EU-Central Asia Monitoring.

Book or Monograph

Isaacs, Rico (2022) Political Opposition in Authoritarianism: Exit, Voice and Loyalty in Kazakhstan. The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 3031065352

Isaacs, Rico (2022) A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies: 40 Years of Central Asian Survey. Routledge. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Isaacs, Rico and Marat, Erica (2021) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9780367178406

Isaacs, Rico and Frigerio, Alessandro (2019) Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power. International Political Theory . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-97354-8

Isaacs, Rico, Axford, Barrie, Browne, Victoria and Huggins, Richard (2018) Politics: An Introduction, 3rd Edition. Routledge, 2018. ISBN 9780415571906

Isaacs, Rico (2018) Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia. I.B. Tauris, London & New York. ISBN 9781784538385

Isaacs, Rico and Polese, Abel, eds. (2016) Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space: New Tools and Approaches, 1st Edition. Post-Soviet Politics . Routledge. ISBN 9780367281359

Isaacs, Rico (2011) Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics, 1st Edition. Central Asian Studies . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138102347

Audio

Isaacs, Rico, Marat, Erica and Seay, Nicholas (2021) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (Podcast). [Audio]

Isaacs, Rico (2019) Film and Identity in Kazakhstan Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (podcast). [Audio]