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Revolutions, corruption and intrigue in Central Asia’s “Restless Valley”

(Book Review) Over a five-year period in the 2000s, Central Asia’s Fergana Valley saw two revolutions, the bloodiest government-ordered crackdown on protestors since China’s Tiananmen Square, and a wave of…

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April in Kyrgyzstan

This month Kyrgyzstan celebrates the third anniversary of the overthrow of country’s second president, Kurmanbek Bakiev, which led to major changes in the country’s structure of governance. Three years on,…

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Kyrgyz-Uzbek Border: No Progress; Sokh Still Sensitive

Over March 25-28, the Kyrgyz-Uzbek joint commission for delimitation and demarcation of state borders, chaired by deputy prime ministers Shamil Atakhanov of Kyrgyzstan and Rustam Azimov of Uzbekistan met in…

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Russia and China vie for Influence in Central Asia

I’m still swamped with various projects, so in the meantime, here’s another Oxford Analytica brief. This one is from mid-December… —- Although China and the United States have focused greater…

Drug Trafficking in Central Asia: A Poorly Considered Fight?

As strategizing for the “post-2014” regional order in Central Asia picks up speed, the fight against drug trafficking from Afghanistan is evolving as a key objective of international donor involvement…

Central Asia’s Cold War? Water and Politics in Uzbek-Tajik Relations

At the end of 2011, Louise Arbour, head of the International Crisis Group (ICG), listed Central Asia among the top ten crisis areas in the world and a region that…

Passive Eagle, Rising Dragon: U.S. Policy toward China’s Rise in Central Asia

China’s rise as a regional power in Central Asia is nothing short of remarkable. Over the course of a decade, China has concluded border agreements with all of the Central…

Yawning through the Arab Spring: Resilient Regimes in Central Asia and the Caucasus

In the weeks and months after the January 25 Revolution in Egypt, there was hope among commentators and opposition figures that some post-Soviet regimes might be equally susceptible to uprisings…

Breaking the Nation’s Taboo: Meds Yeghern and Turkish Intellectuals

On December 12, 2008, a group of Turkish intellectuals launched an internet campaign to apologize for the World War I-era slaughter of Armenians in Turkey. Significantly, the “apology campaign” did…

These Colors May Run: The Backlash Against the U.S.-Backed ‘Democratic Revolutions’ in Eurasia

The victory of Viktor Yanukovych in the second round of Ukraine’s 2010 presidential election has been widely portrayed as a rebuke of the 2004 Orange Revolution and the pro-Western alignment…

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Central Asia

Revolutions, corruption and intrigue in Central Asia’s “Restless Valley”

April in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz-Uzbek Border: No Progress; Sokh Still Sensitive

Russia and China vie for Influence in Central Asia

Drug Trafficking in Central Asia: A Poorly Considered Fight?

Central Asia’s Cold War? Water and Politics in Uzbek-Tajik Relations

Passive Eagle, Rising Dragon: U.S. Policy toward China’s Rise in Central Asia

Yawning through the Arab Spring: Resilient Regimes in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Breaking the Nation’s Taboo: Meds Yeghern and Turkish Intellectuals

These Colors May Run: The Backlash Against the U.S.-Backed ‘Democratic Revolutions’ in Eurasia