Research Organizations (Central Eurasian Studies)
This list does not include academic university departments.
ASIA
Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network (network of anthropologists, students, and social science researchers working on contemporary societies in the Middle East and Central Eurasia)
Asia Center, Harvard University
Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (ceased in January 2011, but much useful content still accessible through the Internet Archive)
Association for Asian Studies
Chatham House (Russia and Eurasia Programme)
Crossroads Asia: Conflict, Migration, Development (website contains scholarly research e-publications; content in German and English)
Digital Silk Road Project (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS)
Harvard-Yenching Institute
Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences (many publications available as PDFs HERE; introductory material only for recent publications)
Institute of Oriental Studies, Rome, Italy
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR), National Archives of Japan (digitized documents of the Japanese government from the Meiji era to the end of the Pacific War; useful for the Qing, Mongolia and Tibet; interface in English and Japanese)
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) ("independent research on strategic, political, economic, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting US relations with Asia")
AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU)
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska-Omaha
BALTICS AND FINLAND
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum (Estonian Literary Museum) (national scientific and research institution for collecting, preserving, studying, and displaying the national cultural heritage of Estonia; includes useful list of links in the Estonian-language portion of website)
Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura (Finnish Literary Research Society)
Kotimaisten Kielten Keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland)
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society) (national institute for research and promotion of Finnish oral tradition, the Finnish language, and Finnish literature; maintains extensive lists of online materials)
CENTRAL ASIA / CAUCASUS
Aigine Cultural Research Center (Kyrgyzstan)
American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC)
Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dell'Asia Centrale e del Caucaso (ASIAC) (Italian Society for Central Asian and Caucasian Studies)
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Azərbaycan Milli Elmlər Akademiyası, AMEA)
Cambridge Central Asia Forum (interdisciplinary study of development in Central Asia)
Center for Black Sea and Central Asia (Karadeniz ve Orta Asya Ülkeleri Araştırma Merkezi, KORA)
Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads (archaeology)
Central Asia and Caucasus Research Institute (中央アジア・コーカサス研究所) (Japan)
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) / Silk Road Studies Program (many links to Central Eurasian resources)
Central Asian Numistatic Institute (CANI)
Centralasiatisk Selskab (Danish Central Asian Society)
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
Central Eurasian Studies Society (ユーラシア学研究会) (Osaka University, Japan)
Central Eurasian Studies World Wide (CESWW)
Eurasia Heritage Foundation (Фонд Наследие Евразии) (Russian NGO; political and socioeconomic processes in the NIS)
European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS)
Institut Français d’Études sur l’Asie centrale (IFÉAC) (French Institute for Central Asian Studies)
Institute of Oriental Studies (Z.M. Bünyadov adına Şərqşünaslıq İnstitutu) (National Academy of Sciences, Baku)
Institute of Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies (IREECAS) (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) (Samarkand, Uzbekistan)
Japan Association for Central Asian Studies (JACAS) (日本中央アジア学会)
Observatorio Asia Central (in Spanish)
Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES) (Columbia University, NY)
Oxford Society for the Caspian and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
Project on Islam in Eurasia (Harvard University)
Research Centre for Turkestan and Azerbaijan (Stichting Onderzoekcentrum Turkistan en Azerbaidzjan, SOTA) (rarely updated)
Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) (Brisith association which promotes "greater knowledge and understanding of Central Asia and countries from the Middle East to Japan")
Société Européenne pour l'Etude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale (SEECHAC)
Society of Inner Asian Studies (内陸アジア史学会) (Chuo University, Japan)
Uzbek Academy of Sciences
HUNGARY
International Association for Hungarian Studies
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
MIDDLE EAST
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)
Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA)
Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB)
MONGOLIA
American Center for Mongolian Studies
Center for Northeast Asian Studies (東北アジア研究センター) (Tohoku University, Japan)
Deutsch-Mongolische Gesellschaft (German-Mongolian Society)
Mongolia Society
Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Монгол Улсын Шинжлэх Ухааны Академи)
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
TIBET (China)
Center for Research on Tibet (Case Western Reserve University, OH)
Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes (Centre for Himalayan Studies)
China Tibetology Research Center
Tibetan and Himalayan Library (comprehensive website with many resources)
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not work with this website--must use another browser)
Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre (TPPRC)
TURKEY
American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)
Centre d'Etudes Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques (CETOBAC)
Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA)
Institute of Turkish Studies (USA)
İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul Research Institute)
Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi (Black Sea Research Center) (KaraM)
Orient-Institut Instanbul (affiliated with Max Weber Foundation)
Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture (IRCICA)
Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies (UK)
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Turkish Studies Association (TSA) (USA)
XINJIANG (China)
International Dunhuang Project (IDP) (information and image database of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the "Eastern Silk Road")
