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China’s Expanding Military Education Diplomacy in Central Asia

  • April 19, 2021
  • Erica Marat
(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?

  • March 18, 2021
  • Nargis Kassenova
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Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis

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

  • January 25, 2021
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Nested Games? The Inconsistencies of Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia

  • January 11, 2021
  • Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov
(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…
Towards a more equal field in Central Asia research
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Towards a more equal field in Central Asia research

  • January 11, 2021
  • Erica Marat
(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…
Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
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Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (New Book!)

  • January 11, 2021
  • Edward Schatz
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  • July 29, 2020
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(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

  • July 15, 2020
  • Marlene Laruelle
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