A Donor without Influence: The European Union in Central Asia
(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the past fifteen years, the EU has sought to gain visibility and influence in Central Asia. It has pressed soft power strategies and a values agenda, but…
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Gavrilis: China has been trying to create as many access points as possible to the wider Central Asia region
(South China Morning Post) Washington’s plan was underfunded and under-resourced compared with Beijing’s ‘Belt and Road’ scheme. The contrast between Beijing’s and Washington’s support for a revitalised Silk Road could not…
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (New Book)
A look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West. Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former…
Eurasia’s CSTO and SCO: A Failure to Address the Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus
(PONARS Policy Memo) The topic of collective responses to terrorism, extremism, and transnational organized crime has long dominated discussions within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).…
Kassenova: Central Asian Countries Worry about Chinese Influence in Creating a New Silk Road
(WSJ) As the U.S., U.K. and others hit pause on globalization, China is flexing its economic muscle with an ambitious infrastructure-building spree that would connect up to a third of…
Strategic Solidarity: How Central Asia Responds to the Kremlin’s Exhortations
(PONARS Policy Memo) The Central Asian states have endeavored over the past two decades to maintain the appropriate amount of distance from the regional hegemon, Russia. They have sought to balance…
U.S.-Russia relations in Central Asia: Change within
(Washington Times) While the US-Russia relationship has been deteriorating rapidly since 2014 and faces a new crisis with the current situation around Aleppo, the bilateral relationship in Central Asia has been relatively…
Counter-Radicalization Policies in Central Asia: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
(PONARS Policy Memo) In 2011, four Central Asian states signed a Joint Plan of Action in Ashgabat pledging to work together to counter radicalization and terrorism in the region. Since…
Schatz: Right away, we wanted to start a petition to bring Mr. Sodiqov home
(UA/AU) Barely a day had passed since Alexander Sodiqov had been jailed in Central Asia and his colleague Edward Schatz was already mulling a public campaign to bring Mr. Sodiqov home.…
Is Russia Coming to Terms with China’s “Silk Road”?
(PONARS Policy Memo) China’s Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) initiative has been developing at a fast pace since its launch a few years ago. Stretching from China to Europe, the SREB…