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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

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Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


13 December 2009

American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC)

http://www.arisc.org/

4star
13 Dec 2009

www.arisc.org, Chicago, IL, US

Self-description:
"The mission of The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) is to encourage and support scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) in all fields from the earliest times to the present. ARISC will provide an ongoing American scholarly presence in each country in order to facilitate research and will establish and nurture ties between institutions and individuals. Further, ARISC will promote and encourage intellectual inquiry across boundaries within the South Caucasus and between the South Caucasus and adjacent areas. The exchange of scholars and scholarly information will be encouraged by the support of conferences, fellowship opportunities, publications, teaching resources, and other forms of cooperation for use both in the United States and in the host countries where the Institute is located."

Site contents:
* About Us;
* Publications (# Online Publications and Journals: #"All Quiet on the Karabagh Front?" PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 66 - Georgi Derluguian, # The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, Volume 1. The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia - Adam T. Smith, Ruben S. Badalyan, Pavel Avetisyan; With contributions by Alan Greene and Leah Minc. # Democracy's Plight in the European Neighbourhood: Struggling transitions and proliferating dynasties - Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs (Editors) Centre for European Policy Studies - 30 October, 2009 # Religiosity and Trust in Religious Institutions: Tales from the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) - Robia Charles UC Berkeley: Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (Summer 2009), # link to: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) [http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/cad/index.cfm], # link to: Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) [http://www.cria-online.org/Home.html] # link to: Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies (JCACS) [www.usak.org.tr/EN/dmenu.asp?id=55, in PDF format, Vol: 1 No: 1 (2006) - Vol: 3 No: 6 (2008)];
* Resources (Institutions & Regional Studies Programs, Culture, Archaeology, Art & Architecture, Linguistics, History, Political Science);
* Projects;
* Membership [2009 Institutional Members: Brown U., Dartmouth College, Indiana U., New York U., Purdue U., SUNY, Stony Brook, U. of Chicago, U. of Illinois, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Texas, Austin];
* News (Upcoming ARISC Events, Other Upcoming Events, Baku Center Now Open, JSTOR Now Available, Calls for Papers);
* Search.

URL http://www.arisc.org/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.arisc.org/

Link reported by: American Research Institute of the South
Caucasus (info--at--arisc.org, forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu)

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate info./ Study/ Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com