Central Asia

How Will U.S. Policy toward Central Asia Look under the Biden Administration?

(Davis Center) The United States made an important contribution to the independence of Central Asian states—perhaps the largest of all the powers seriously involved in the affairs of the region.…

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Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis

Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis Despite a history of using discourses of danger to define other transnational challenges (e.g., Islamic radicalism), Central…

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Exit from a Sparse Hegemony: Central Asia’s Place in a Transforming Liberal International Order

(Foreign Policy Research Institute) As Joe Biden takes office, many people are optimistic that he can restore international confidence in the United States and return America to its proper place as…

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Nested Games? The Inconsistencies of Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Scholars of international relations and Russian politics actively debate whether some “grand strategy” underpins Russian foreign policy choices in the Putin era. For instance, prominent American military historian…

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Towards a more equal field in Central Asia research

(openDemocracy) Over a year ago, a series of articles by feminist scholars from Central Asia exposed the deep inequalities in knowledge production in Central Asian area studies. Academic discourse on the region…

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Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (New Book!)

(Stanford University Press) Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz…

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How Do The Belarus Protests Resonate In Central Asia? With Marat, Umarov, Safarov, and Pannier

(Majlis Podcast) For weeks, people in Belarus have been protesting against the results of that country’s August 9 presidential election that saw longtime incumbent leader Alyanksandr Lukashenka claim an overwhelming…

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McGlinchey: Central Asian elites’ dependency on Chinese development loans constitute one potential driver of anti-Chinese sentiment

(The Diplomat) Over the last decade, China cemented its position as a consequential actor in Central Asia. Motivated to increase regional connectivity, diversify sources of energy imports, and safeguard its western…

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Russian Media Influence in Central Asia: Easy to Imagine, Difficult to Find

(NYU Jordan Center) U.S. observers and policymakers have often seen Russian-origin media as responsible for influencing the opinions and worldviews of Russia’s post-Soviet neighbors. However, our analysis of surveys in Central…

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Cooley: You can’t underestimate some of the unintended consequences that some of this sunlight creates

(RFE/RL) When Ukraine’s Privatbank filed a lawsuit in the United States against its former owner Ihor Kolomoyskiy one year ago, it claimed the tycoon had used a slew of anonymous shell…

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