In Its Own Image: Toward a Re-conceptualization of Central Asia
With the collapse of the USSR came the dislocation of the Soviet republics–not only from their former political and economic status within the former Soviet Union, but also from their…
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Strategies For Energy Development In Central Asia: International Implications
The possession of rich reserves of oil and gas on their respective territories destines the Central Asian states neither for healthy market economies and democratic governance nor for the establishment…
Value Tradeoffs and America’s Caspian Policy: Energy, the Environment, and Sustainable Development
The Caspian Sea embodies one of the crucial tensions of international politics. On one hand, its vast deposits of oil and gas beckon political elites and multinational corporations to compete…
Domestic Politics and Russia’s Caspian Policy
The known volume of Caspian oil and gas reserves is immense, and new discoveries are reported regularly. With deposits of oil alone totaling perhaps 200 billion tons, the Caspian stands…
Central Asia’s Border Woes & the Impact of International Assistance (New Report)
Over the last decade, the Central Asian republics have hosted a number of international programs designed to overhaul, equip, and reform the region’s border control practices aimed at making…
“The Great Game over Turkmen gas is thus only beginning”
Drawing on Russian and Western sources as well as fieldwork, PONARS Eurasia member Sebastien Peyrouse in his new book, Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development (M.E. Sharpe, 2012), examines…
Kyrgyzstan: Recovery and Reformation
PONARS Eurasia is pleased to release the Policy Perspectives volume, "Kyrgyzstan: Recovery and Reformation," August 2010 — With parliamentary elections scheduled for October, Kyrgyzstan is entering a new and highly…
In the News: Regime Change in Kyrgyzstan
Last week in Kyrgyzstan, supporters of former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev occupied government buildings in the south and clashed with government forces before the interim government restored authority. The incident, in…