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Cooley: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is not a problem-solving forum; China and Russia are not on the same page

(Newsweek) Russia, China and a handful of other regional powers will deploy around 3,000 troops and 500 weapons systems for joint counterterror exercises that will take place in Russia’s Ural Mountains…

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How today’s despots and kleptocrats hide their stolen wealth

(WP) (Co-authored with J. Sharman) On Oct. 27, the vice president and heir apparent to the tiny oil-rich West African state of Equatorial Guinea was convicted in a Paris court…

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Cooley: The whole aesthetic of Trump goes very well with Central Asia

(McClatchy) Weeks before his inauguration, Donald Trump was allied with a company in the former Soviet republic of Georgia that planned to build a 47-story luxury tower in the Black…

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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…

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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…

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“There is now a ballooning literature to match the rise of indicators. Cooley and Snyder’s volume is on trend here”

(Book Review) How Powerful Are Global Indicators? Statistical indicators are more influential than ever before. The Economist provided one recent overview of the power of indicators in a report entitled…

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Cooley: China’s Silk Road initiative is “conceptually incompatible” with Russia’s EEU

(The Diplomat) Announced in 2013 on a stage at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the land-based portion of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative (the Silk Road…

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Cooley: Sustained depressed oil prices will take a greater toll on Russia‘s finances than Western sanctions

(Europe Online) Russia is withdrawing support for the conflict in eastern Ukraine and redirecting its attention toward Syria in an effort to resuscitate its economy and rebuild ties with the West…

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Cooley: the United States and Central Asia: a new relationship? (Video)

(RFE/RL) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry just wrapped up a trip through Central Asia that was aimed at reassuring the leaders of five states that U.S. support will continue, even…

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Playing the players? Interview with Alexander Cooley

(RT) Competition between the world’s largest powers for influence in Central Asia is seen as the new Great Game of the 21st century. But with the weakening of security in…

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Cooley: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is not a problem-solving forum; China and Russia are not on the same page

How today’s despots and kleptocrats hide their stolen wealth

Cooley: The whole aesthetic of Trump goes very well with Central Asia

Gavrilis: China has been trying to create as many access points as possible to the wider Central Asia region

Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (New Book)

“There is now a ballooning literature to match the rise of indicators. Cooley and Snyder’s volume is on trend here”

Cooley: China’s Silk Road initiative is “conceptually incompatible” with Russia’s EEU

Cooley: Sustained depressed oil prices will take a greater toll on Russia‘s finances than Western sanctions

Cooley: the United States and Central Asia: a new relationship? (Video)

Playing the players? Interview with Alexander Cooley