Sally Cummings
Senior Lecturer
Room: 245
Office Hours
Tel: 2921
Email: snc
st-andrews.ac.uk
Teaching
IR5501 : Core Course: International Theory and Security (case studies Middle East and Central Asia)
IR5510 : Central Asia in Global Politics
IR3027 : Central Asian Security
IR4510 : Central Asia in International Politics
I also contribute regularly to first-year team taught modules, to MLitt dissertation modules and to PhD workshops.
Research
Culture and Security; The Politics of Identity; Nation-and state-building in Eastern Europe; International Politics with geographic specialisation of Central Asia
Books
Understanding Central Asia (London: Routledge, 2012)
Sovereignty After Empire (co-ed.with Raymond Hinnebusch ,Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 2011)
Symbolism and Power in Central Asia: Politics of the Spectacular (ed. Routledge, 2010)
Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’ (ed. Routledge, 2009)
Kazakhstan: Power and the Elite (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005)
Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia (ed., London and New York: Routledge, 2003)
Power and Change in Central Asia (ed.London and New York: Routledge, 2002)
Kosovo: Perceptions of War and its Aftermath (co-ed. with Mary Buckley, London and New York: Continuum, 2001)
Kazakhstan: Centre-Periphery Relations (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution and London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2000)
Wars and Peace in the Former Soviet Space (ed. Conflict Studies Centre, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 2000)
Articles
‘Soviet Rule, Nation and Film: The Kyrgyz “Wonder Years”’ Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 15, No.4, October 2009, pp. 636–57.
‘Politics of the Spectacular: Symbolism and Power in Central Asia’ Europe Asia-studies, Vol. 61, No. 7, September 2009, pp. 1-11.
‘Situating the “Tulip Revolution”’, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27, Nos 3-4, 2008, pp. 241– 52, with Maxim Ryabkov.
2006; S N Cummings; "Legitimation and Identification in Kazakhstan"; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; 12(2):177-204; Full text via DOI
2005; S N Cummings; "Kazakhstan: Power and the Elite"; I. B. Tauris; 202
2004; S N Cummings; "‘Reactions in Central Asia’"; Asian Affairs; 33(1):72-6
2004; S N Cummings; "‘The New Central Asia: Challenges for the Region’"; Russia: War, Peace & Diplomacy; Ljubica Erickson, Mark Erickson (ed); pp. 261-275 and 342-4
2004; S N Cummings, O. Norgaard; "Conceptualising State Capacity: Comparing Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan"; Political Studies; 52(4):685-708; Full text via DOI
Book Chapters
‘Kazakhstan’, in Annette Bohr and Edmund Herzig (eds), The Cambridge History of Inner Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in-press).
‘Introduction’ and ‘Conclusions’ in Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia (in press).
‘Inscapes, landscapes and greyscapes: the politics of signification’ in my Symbolism and Power in Central Asia: Politics of the Spectacular (2010) pp. 1-11.
‘”Revolution”, not revolution’, in my Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, mobilization and meanings (2009), pp. 1-6
‘Situating the Tulip Revolution’ (with Maxim Ryabkov) my Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, mobilization and meanings (2009), pp. 19-30.
‘Co-optation and control: Managing heterogeneity in Kazakhstan’, in Lars Johanssen and Karen Pedersen Pathways: a study of six post-communist countries (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009).
‘The New Central Asia: Challenges for the Region’, in Ljubica Erickson and Mark Erickson (eds), Russia: War, Peace & Diplomacy (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), pp. 261-275 and 342-4.
‘Negotiating the US Presence: The Central Asian States’, in M. Buckley and R. Fawn (eds), Global Responses to Terrorism: 9/11, Afghanistan and Beyond (Routledge, 2003), pp. 239-51.
‘Introduction’, in Cummings (ed.), Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia, pp. 1-7.
‘Independent Kazakhstan: Managing Heterogeneity’, in Cummings (ed.), Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia, pp. 25-35.
‘Power and Change in Central Asia’, in Cummings (ed.), Power and Change in Central Asia, pp. 1-23.
‘Kazakhstan: An Uneasy Relationship – Power and Authority in the Nazarbaev Regime’, in Cummings (ed.), Power and Change in Central Asia, pp. 59-73.
‘Turkmenistan: Saparmurat Niyazov’s Inglorious Isolation’, in Cummings (ed.), Power and Change in Central Asia (with Michael Ochs), pp. 115-29.
‘Introduction’’, in Buckley and Cummings (eds), Kosovo: Perceptions of War and its Aftermath, pp. 1-11.
‘Perceptions in the Commonwealth of Independent States’, in Buckley and Cummings (eds), Kosovo: Perceptions of War and its Aftermath, pp. 176-92.
The Kazakhs: Diasporas, Demographics and the Kazakhstani State’, in Charles King and Neil Melvin (eds), Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union (Westview Press, 1998), pp. 133-52.
Administration
Current:
Founding Director, Institute of Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Caucasus Studies
Convenor and Co-Founder of MLitt in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Security Studies
Postgraduate Committee Member
Ethics Committee Member
REF Committee Member
Affiliations
OSI CARTI Executive Board Member
Association for the Study of Nationalities, Member
Director, Kyrgyz-British Society
Previously:
Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Editorial Positions
Editorial Board of Central Asian Survey and Europe-Asia Studies (since 2006) and, founding editorial member for the launch of East European Politics (since 2010)
Media
Invited media interviews to BBC, CBC, BBC World Service, AFP. Print Media: FT, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian.
Miscellaneous also:
‘Post-Communism and Visual Culture’ on ArtCulture.com, 24 July 2008. ‘The “Tulip Revolution”: Mixed Messages of Official Memory, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 02 April 2008.
‘Islam in the Former Soviet Union', Ethnopolitics (Vol. III, no. 2, January 2004), (review article) pp. 67-72.
‘Understanding Politics in Kazakhstan’, DEMSTAR Research Paper Series, (Aarhus: Aarhus University, 2004), 30pp.
Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan, Former Soviet South Briefing Paper, Royal Institute of International Affairs, No. 5, February 1996.
Politics in Kazakhstan: The Constitutional Crisis of March 1995, Former Soviet South Briefing Paper, Royal Institute of International Affairs, No. 3, August 1995.
Current Research Students
Current PhD students:
Ayazbekov, Anuar
Conway, Ned
Morfini, Nicola
Teles Fazendeiro, Bernardo
Completed:
Natalia Howard
Lincoln Flake
Matteo Fumagalli
Wojtek Ostrowski
Mohira Suyarkulova
Justine Williams
PhD Supervision topics
I supervise topics related to the politics, security and culture of Inner and Central Asia and thematic comparative work on the broader post-Soviet space. Supervised topics include: nations and nationalism in Kazakhstan; moblization in Mongolia; parties of power in Central Asia; drugs trafficking in Central Asia; politics and religion in the post-Soviet space; Uzbek mobilization in the Ferghana Valley; politics and oil in Kazakhstan; Russian identity in Kazakhstan.
