Russia’s Muslim Leaders on the Invasion of Ukraine: United in a Display of Loyalty, Divided in Competition for Power

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 has deepened the existing cracks within Russia’s biggest religious institution, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The Moscow Patriarchate is about to lose its…

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Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus: Meeting Points in Adjara and Tatarstan

(Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs) (Co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk) This article discusses how the discursively and culturally constructed “Russian world” intersects and communicates with the “Turkic world” as an adjacent—and in…

Why Uzbekistan’s New President Needs to Expand Access to Islamic Education

(PONARS Policy Memo) Uzbekistan remains one of the Muslim states in the former Soviet space most averse to the development of Islamic education. For over twenty years, in the name of…

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The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs

(Critical Asian Studies) Abstract: This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist…

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Religion, Conflict, and Stability in the Former Soviet Union (Chapters by Zhemukhov, Kassenova)

(RAND) Despite the rise of religion as a visible force in the sociopolitical life of post-Soviet countries, little is known about how religion has contributed or may yet contribute to tensions…

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How Islam Will Change Russia

(Jamestown) Russia is becoming increasingly a Muslim country. Out of a total population of over 146 million (including two million in annexed Crimea), it counts about 15 million people of Muslim…

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New Policy Memo: De Facto States Unbound

(Co-author: A. Ahram) De facto states are political entities that possess control of territory but lack international recognition. Such entities appear to violate the norm of border fixity and the principle…

De Facto States Unbound

De facto states are political entities that possess control of territory but lack international recognition. Such entities appear to violate the norm of border fixity and the principle of territorial…

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Policy Memo: Revisiting Islamism: A Factor for Democratization in Central Asia?

This memo hopes to revisit the old Islamism/democratization paradigm in Central Asia and to provide some new avenues for debate. It sets out from three hypotheses: Generational changes underway in…

Revisiting Islamism: A Factor for Democratization in Central Asia?

This memo hopes to revisit the old Islamism/democratization paradigm in Central Asia and to provide some new avenues for debate. It sets out from three hypotheses: Generational changes underway in…

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