Martha Brill Olcott

Biographic Data

ID1049565
NAMEMartha Brill Olcott
GIVEN NAMESMartha Brill
FAMILY NAMEOlcott
SIGNATUREOLCOTT M B
AFFILIATIONSColgate University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS113
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX7

  • Can Covenantal Pluralism Grow in Central Asian Soil? Hopes and Hard Lessons from the Religious History of the Region

    Martha Brill Olcott, Matthew RappeARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2020Cited by: 5References: 5

    The history of Central Asia prior to and during the process Islamization both provides a potential grounding for the concept of covenantal pluralism in the region and presents challenges to its fruition. While Central Asia has always been home to diverse religious practices, an orthodox interpretation of Islam was privileged over these. Non-Muslim religious minorities could expect protection, but limitations under Abbasid rule; heterodox Muslims …

  • Soviet Multinational State

    Martha Brill Olcott, Lubomyr Hajda et al.BOOKSoviet Multinational State2019

  • Freedom of Religion, Tolerance, and Security in Central Asia

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2017References: 1

    Young people from the Central Asian countries are being recruited by terrorist groups, leading their governments to further reduce the scope of religious freedom in their countries—by banning religious groups which have allegedly religious or extremist agendas, by tightening regulations governing the registration of religious groups, by banning the import of religious literature, by restricting access to internet sites, and by giving state-sponso…

  • Religion and Security in Central Asia: Recommendations for the Next U.S. Administration

    Open AccessMartha Brill OlcottARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2016Cited by: 1

    The five countries in the Central Asian region have been of interest to US policy-makers since they were granted independence 25 years ago partly to prevent Russian revanchist policies, but also be

  • Religion and State Policy in Central Asia

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2014

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartha Brill Olcott is a Visiting Professor at James Madison College of Michigan State University and a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement. She is also Professor Emerita at Colgate University, where she served on the faculty from 1975 to 2002. A prolific author, Olcott has been studying religion, identity, and politics in Central Asia and in other Muslim-majority regions for over 40 yea…

  • Russia After Communism

    Anders Aslund, Martha Brill Olcott et al.BOOKRussia after Communism2013

  • From Ethnos to Demos: The Quest for Russiaʹs Identity

    Tishkov, Valery Tishkov et al.CHAPTERRussia after Communism2013

  • The Shrinking US Footprint in Central Asia

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLECurrent History2007

    The belief that the United States was behind the ‘color revolutions’ has helped both Russia and China strengthen their positions in the region

  • Central Asia's Second Chance

    Robert Legvold, Martha Brill OlcottARTICLEForeign Affairs2006Cited by: 15

    A leading authority on Central Asia offers a sweeping review of the region's path from independence to the post-9/11 world. The first decade of Central Asian independence was disappointing for those who envisioned a straightforward transition from Soviet republics to independent states with market economies and democratic political systems. Leaders excused political failures by pointing to security risks, including the presence of terrorist train…

  • The Great Powers in Central Asia

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLECurrent History2005

    The United States, Russia, and China have spent the past few years jockeying for position in the region.... [But] the challenges facing Central Asian states remain largely unchanged, and governments there have received few new tools to address them

  • The Terrorist Notebooks

    Martha Brill Olcott, Bakhtiyar BabajanovARTICLEForeign Policy2003Cited by: 4

  • Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise

    Martha Brill OlcottBOOKKazakhstan2002Cited by: 25

  • Reforming Russia's Tycoons

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLEForeign Policy2002Cited by: 2

  • T he C aspian R egion and the N ew G reat P owers

    Open AccessDavid L Goldwyn, Martha Brill Olcott et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Policy2000

    The following is an edited transcript of the twenty‐second in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on September 15, 2000, in the Capitol Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., moderating

  • Getting It Wrong: Regional Cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States

    Robert Legvold, Martha Brill Olcott et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2000Cited by: 7

    On December 8, 1991, even before the Soviet Union was officially dissolved, the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine met in the Belovezh Forest outside Minsk to lay the groundwork for the post-Soviet era. There they signed what became known as the Belovezh Accords, creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Two weeks later, eight other Soviet republics joined the three founding members. In the void left by the collapse of the USSR,…

  • The Caspian's False Promise

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLEForeign Policy1998Cited by: 4

  • Demographic upheavals in central Asia

    Open AccessMartha Brill OlcottARTICLEOrbis1996Cited by: 1

  • Central Asia

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLECurrent History1995

    Essay| October 01 1995 Central Asia: The Calculus of Independence Martha Brill Olcott Martha Brill Olcott Martha Brill Olcott is a professor of political science at Colgate University and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1995) 94 (594): 337–342. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1995.94.594.337 Views Icon Views Article conten…

  • Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: The Demographics of Ethnic Politics

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLEProblems of Post-Communism1995Cited by: 2

    Unless prosperity eases tensions between Kazakhs and Russians, the outlook for long-term political stability in Kazakhstan is dim

  • Sovereignty and the “near abroad”

    Open AccessMartha Brill OlcottARTICLEOrbis1995Cited by: 6References: 1

  • Central Asia’s Islamic Awakening

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLECurrent History1994

    Essay| April 01 1994 Central Asia’s Islamic Awakening Martha Brill Olcott Martha Brill Olcott Martha Brill Olcott is a professor of political science at Colgate University and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1994) 93 (582): 150–154. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.582.150 Views Icon Views Article contents Figur…

  • The Myth of “Tsentral'naia Aziia”

    Open AccessMartha Brill OlcottARTICLEOrbis1994Cited by: 8

  • Russia′s Place in the CIS

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLECurrent History1993

  • Central Asia on Its Own

    Open AccessMartha Brill OlcottARTICLEJournal of democracy1993Cited by: 2

    Central Asia on Its Own Martha Brill Olcott (bio) "Independence came to Central Asia too quickly and too easily," observed Abduhrahim Pulatov, the leader of Uzbekistan's Birlik (Unity) movement, in October 1992.1 He offered this remark while recuperating from skull fractures inflicted by "unknown assailants" who set upon him in broad daylight as he emerged from questioning at a police station in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. Throughout 1992, Bir…

  • Central Asia's Catapult to Independence

    Martha Brill OlcottARTICLEForeign Affairs1992Cited by: 11