Central Asia

Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia

(UCL Press) Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in…

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China’s Expanding Military Education Diplomacy in Central Asia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In the past decade, Chinese universities have been inviting mid- and senior-level military officers from Central Asia and other countries in Eurasia. Chinese military education programs…

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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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The evolution of religious regulation in Central Asia, 1991–2018

(Central Asian Survey) This article aims to provide a more complete and dynamic account of the legal framework that underpins religious regulation in Central Asia from independence in 1991 through…

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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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