Grants
Faculty Development Competitive Research Grant, 2023-2025, PI: Jessica Neafie https://research.nu.edu.kz/en/projects/perceptions-of-chinese-threat-and-central-asian-public-attitudes-
Related Publications
Neafie, Jessica. 2022. “Anti-Chinese Sentiment, the BRI, and COVID-19: Kazakhstani Perceptions of China in Central Asia.” In: Caron JF., Thibault H. (eds) Central Asia and the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7586-7_5
Working Papers
“Chinese Sentiment on the BRI: Kazakhstani Perceptions of China on Social Media.”
“Kazakhstani Public Attitudes toward Chinese Foreign Direct Investments: Survey Experiments, Causal mediation, and Social Media Analysis”

Grants
Collaborative Research Program, 2024-2026, PI: Emil Bayramov
Related Publications
Xenarios, Stefanos and Jessica Neafie. 2022. “Desertification of the Aral Sea to the Caspian Sea: patterns and political implications.” In: Ferrari A., Ambrosetti ET. (eds) Environment in Times of War. Ledizioni LediPublishing, Milan. https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/environment-times-war-climate-and-energy-challenges-post-soviet-region-35422
Working Papers
Neafie, Jessica, Emil Bayramov and Maira Albakassova. “Assessing socioeconomic and natural vulnerability to oil spills: A case study of Azerbaijan’s Caspian Shoreline.” (under review)

Related Publications
2022. “Anti-Chinese Sentiment, the BRI, and COVID-19: Kazakhstani Perceptions of Chinain Central Asia.” In: Caron JF., Thibault H. (eds) Central Asia and the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7586-7_5
2022. “‘No one stole anyone else’s cheese’: The politics of infrastructural competition in Kazakhstan.” In: Schindler S, DiCarlo J (eds) The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China rivalry shapes politics and place worldwide. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529220803.ch019

Publications:
Forthcoming. “State Capacity and Elite Enrichment in Uganda’s Northeastern Periphery.” Africa Spectrum.
2023. “Political Mobilization of Layered Ethnic Identities.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 46 (10): 2138-2162.
2019. “Karamojan Politics: Extension of State Power and Formation of a Subordinate Political Elite in Northeastern Uganda.” Third World Quarterly. 40 (3): 558-577.
Work in progress:
“Electoral Contestation, Goods Provision, and Construction of Devolved Government in Northern Kenya.” Journal of Eastern African Studies (Revise and Resubmit).
Book manuscript: Projection of State Power: State-making in the Dryland Periphery of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda.

Work in progress:
“Government Digital Surveillance in Africa.” (based on datasets collated with the assistance of PSIR undergraduate students)
“The Politics of Digital Surveillance in Kenya.”

Hélène Thibault is co-coordinator of the Central Asia Hub of the PEER Network with Naureen Durrani, Full professor at the Graduate School of Education. The PEER Network is a four-year initiative led by four universities (Ulster, Cape Town, Nazarbayev and Sussex) and has been granted a budget of 3,000,000£ by the UK Research Initiative (UKRI) as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). It aims at improving the quality of political economy analysis of education in partnership with academics, policymakers and practitioners in conflict-affected countries. The project supports the research projects of 30 early-career researchers (fellows) from different countries of Africa and Central Asia on issues related to the political economy of education. The work of the Central Asian fellows and their mentors will be published in an edited volume by Palgrave in 2024.

2022. Uyat and the Culture of Shame in Central Asia. With Jean-François Caron (ed). Palgrave-Macmillan.
2022. “Introduction. Gender as intersections. A different way of seeing Central Asia“, Central Asian Affairs 9(2-3); 149-176. (With Svetlana Peshkova).
2022. “Male sex-work in Kazakhstan: A distinct market?”, Central Asian Affairs 9(2-3); 375-399.
2021. “Online Temptations: Divorce and Extramarital Affairs in Kazakhstan” Religions 12(8); 654. With Jasmin Dall’Agnola.
2021. ““Are you married?” Gender and faith in political ethnographic research”, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 41 (15); 2809-2826.

Houle, C, Kenny P, & Park C. (2019) The structure of ethnic inequality and ethnic voting. Journal of Politics 81(1), 187-200.
Chang, ECC & Park C. (2019) Economic inequality, ethnic mobilization and electoral competition. In: Park C & Uslaner E. (eds.) Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia.. Routledge, 180-201.

Insebayeva, S. (2023). Japan’s normative power in central Asia: Norms, development cooperation, and the long-lasting partnership. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/18793665221150657.
Insebayeva S. (2023). Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture, The Pacific Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2023.2246667.
Insebayeva, S. (2019). Japan’s Central Asia Policy Revisited: National Identity, Interests, and Foreign Policy Discourses. Nationalities Papers, 47(5), 853-867. https://doi:10.1017/nps.2018.19.

Insebayeva, S., Beyssembayev, S. (2023). Digital Platform Employment in Kazakhstan: Can New Technologies Solve Old Problems in the Labor Market? International Labor and Working-Class History, 103, 62-80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547923000200
Insebayeva, S., Insebayeva, N. (2022). The Power of Ambiguity: National Symbols, Nation-Building and Political Legitimacy in Kazakhstan, Europe-Asia Studies, 74:4, 660-682, https://doi:10.1080/09668136.2021.1912296.
Thibault, H., Insebayeva, S. (forthcoming). The Political System of Kazakhstan. In: J. Lempp, S. Mayer, (eds.)., Central Asia in a Multipolar World, Springer.
Insebayeva, S. (2019). Vision of Nationhood: Youth, Identity and Popular Music. In: M. Laruelle (ed.), Nazarbayev Generation. Being Young in Kazakhstan. Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield.

Putin’s War and the Re-Opening of History, Springer, 2023.
Fear and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Liberticidal Virus, Routledge, 2023.
The Moral Dilemmas of Fighting Terrorism and Guerrilla Groups, De Gruyter, 2023.
Marginalisé : Réflexions sur l’isolement du Canada dans les relations internationales (with the collaboration of Frédéric Boily, Jocelyn Coulon and Zachary Paikin), Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2022.

The Great Lockdown: Western Societies and the Fear of Death, Peter Lang, 2022.
Violent Alternatives to War: Justifying Actions Against Contemporary Terrorism, De Gruyter, 2021.
Irresponsible Citizenship: The Cultural Roots of the Crisis of Authority in Times of Pandemic, Peter Lang, 2021.
A Sketch of the World After the Covid-19 Crisis: Essays on Political Authority, The Future of Globalization and the Rise of China, Springer, 2020.

Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare: The War of the Machines, Routledge, 2019.
The Prince 2.0 : Applying Machiavellian Strategy to Contemporary Political Life, Springer, 2019.
Disobedience in the Military : Legal and Ethical Implications. Springer, 2018.

A Theory of the Super Soldier: The Morality of Capacity-Increasing Technologies in the Military, Manchester University Press, 2018.

(ed. With Marina Miron) Military Ethics and the Changing Character of Warfare, Brill Nijhoff, 2023.
(ed.) A Revolt in the Steppe: Understanding Kazakhstan’s Events of January 2022, Springer, 2023.
(ed. With Hélène Thibault) Uyat and the Culture of Shame in Central Asia, Springer, 2022. German version entitled Uyat und die Kultur der Scham in Zentralasien (Springer, 2023).
(ed. With Hélène Thibault) Central Asia and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Springer, 2022.
(ed.) Understanding Kazakhstan’s 2019 Political Transition, Springer, 2021.
(ed). Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy : Between Continuity and Rupture, Springer, 2019.
“Russia’s Iron Horse and Its Logistics Limitations in the Ukrainian War”, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2023 (accepted and forthcoming).
(with Jocelyn Coulon) “Un retour de la guerre plus craint qu’inattendu”, Argument, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023.
(with Frédéric Boily) “La marginalisation du Canada sur la scène internationale”, Diplomatie, No. 119 (January 2023).
(with Frédéric Boily) “Canada-Chine : deux visions du monde qui s’opposent”, Diplomatie, No. 119 (January 2023).
“Terrorism and the Lawful Preemptive Use of Force: The Case of Cyberattacks”, Digital War (published online on May 10, 2022).
“The Ties that Bind: Kymlicka and the Problem of Political Unity in Multination States”, Border and Regional Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2021, pp. 105-127.
“Defining Semi-Autonomous, Automated and Autonomous Weapon Systems in Order to Understand their Ethical Challenges”, Digital War, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2020, p. 173-177.
“Evaluating the Value of Moral Actions Performed by War Criminals”, Critical Military Studies, Vol. 5, No 2, 2019, pp. 115-130.
“Exploring the Extent of Ethical Disobedience Through the Lens of the Srebrenica and Rwanda Genocides: Can Soldiers Disobey Lawful Orders?”, Critical Military Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2019, pp. 1-20.
“La déclaration de souveraineté de la nation atikamekw : les méandres de l’octroi d’un titre aborigène” (The Sovereignty Declaration of the Atikamekw Nation: The Twists and Turns of Obtaining an Aboriginal Title), Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2016.
“An Ethical and Judicial Framework for Mercy Killing on the Battlefield”, Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2014.
“Rethinking the Sense of Belonging of Ethnocultural Minorities Through Reasonable Accommodations in a Liberal Perspective”, Journal of Intercultural Studies Vol. 35, No. 6, 2014.
“The Exclusive Nature of Quebec’s Contemporary Nationalism: The Pitfalls of Civic Nationalism”, International Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 47, 2013.
“Understanding and Interpreting France’s National Identity: The Meanings of Being French”, National Identities, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2013.
“Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Canada and Quebec’s National Identities”, National Identities Vol. 14, No. 2, 2012.
“La gauche multiculturelle et la droite nationaliste au Québec: deux manières de penser le pluralisme à partir de la philosophie des Lumières”, Bulletin d’histoire politique, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2012.
With Guy Laforest, “La utilitat i els reptes del federalisme al segle XXI”, Activitat Parlamentària, No. 21, Avril 2010.
Jean-François Caron (first author) and Guy Laforest, “Canada and Multinational Federalism : From the Spirit of 1982 to Stephen Harper’s Open Federalism”, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2009.

John Locke, Territory and Transmigration (Routledge, 2021)
“Hobbes and the Political Economy of Population,” History of Political Economy (2023)
“Josiah Child, Interest Rates, and John Locke’s ‘For a General Naturalization,’” Modern Intellectual History 19:3 (2022)
“Hands, not Lands: John Locke, Immigration, and the Great Art of Government,” History of Political Thought (2018)

Confronting Lockean Slavery: So Vile and Miserable an Estate of Man (manuscript in development)
“Between Captive and Wage Slavery: Bondage by Degree in the Seventeenth-Century,” (forthcoming)
“John Locke’s Royal African Company and Bahamas Adventurer Slave Stock,” (forthcoming)
“Locke among the Abolitionists” (Forthcoming)
“Between the Galley and Plantation: The Rhetorical Construction of English Servants in the Seventeenth
Century,” Seventeenth Century 38:1 (2022)

“Marrying Her Husband’s Son’: Locke, the Politics of Sexual Morality, and the Case of Incest at the Church at Corinth,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 61:3 (2023)
“Assessing ‘Unnatural Lusts’: John Locke on the Permissibility of Male-Male Intimacy,” History of European Ideas 49:1 (2022)

A History of Military Morals: Killing the Innocent (Brill, 2022)
“Civilian Casualty Mitigation and the Rationalization of Killing,” Journal of Military Ethics 20:1 (2021)
“Two Dogmas of the New War Thesis,” International Journal of Military History and Historiography 38 (2018).

“Rethinking ‘Silent’ Resistance: Eigen-Sinn, Ownness, and Divine Violence,” (forthcoming)
“Citizenship without States: Rehabilitating Citizenship Discourse among the Anarchist Left,” Citizenship Studies 23:5 (2019)
“Anarcho-Republicanism?: Hannah Arendt and the Federated Council System,” Science and Society 83:1 (2019)