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George Gavrilis

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Are Eurasian Conflicts Really All That Eurasian? Lessons for Scholars and Policymakers

  • December 20, 2018
  • George Gavrilis
(PONARS Policy Memo) Civil and territorial conflicts in Eurasia are often treated as distinct from their counterparts in other parts of the world. The Tajik civil war in the 1990s, the…

The Cold War, Post-Cold War, and the Academy: Policy Recommendations from an Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies

  • October 15, 2018
  • George Gavrilis
(PONARS Policy Memo) In Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts, historian David Engerman portrayed contemporary Russian and Eurasian studies as insular, ineffectual, and—ultimately—irrelevant. Charles King’s…
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Hot-Button Central Asian Border Issues

  • April 9, 2018
  • George Gavrilis
George Gavrilis (Independent Consultant) discusses his long-time research on the complex nature of border management in Central Asia, where five post-Soviet states created new border policies for the first time. Gavrilis Podcast…

Границы Средней Азии: Следующие двадцать пять лет

  • November 30, 2017
  • George Gavrilis
Государства Средней Азии управляют (или плохо управляют, как доказывают некоторые наблюдатели) своими границами четверть века. За это время они получили значительные суммы от международных спонсоров для улучшения пограничной и таможенной…

Central Asia’s Borders: The Next Twenty-Five Years

  • November 6, 2017
  • George Gavrilis
(PONARS Policy Memo) Central Asia’s states have been managing (or mismanaging, as some observers argue) their borders for a quarter century. During this time, they have received substantial sums from international…
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NEW POLICY MEMO: Central Asia’s Borders: The Next Twenty-Five Years | G. Gavrilis

  • November 3, 2017
  • George Gavrilis
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Методы противодействия радикализации в Центральной Азии: хороший, плохой, злой

  • October 17, 2016
  • George Gavrilis
В 2011 году четыре государства Центральной Азии подписали в Ашхабаде Совместный план действий, обязуясь сообща противостоять радикализму и терроризму в регионе. С тех пор у центрально-азиатских государств дела обстоят лучше,…

Counter-Radicalization Policies in Central Asia: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

  • October 6, 2016
  • George Gavrilis
(PONARS Policy Memo) In 2011, four Central Asian states signed a Joint Plan of Action in Ashgabat pledging to work together to counter radicalization and terrorism in the region. Since…

Может ли сработать российский мирный план по Сирии?

  • April 15, 2016
  • George Gavrilis
Когда речь заходит о российской геополитике, у международного сообщества есть много оснований для недовольства. Только за последние несколько лет Россия аннексировала Крым, разожгла гражданскую войну на востоке Украины, расстроила отношения…

Can Russia’s Peace Plan for Syria Work?

  • February 12, 2016
  • George Gavrilis
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) When it comes to Russia’s geopolitics, the international community has a lot to grumble about. In the course of a few short years, Moscow annexed Crimea,…
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