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The Current Hostilities between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Commentary by Dzhuraev, McGlinchey, Markowitz, and Schatz

Shairbek Dzhuraev, Crossroads Central Asia Peace is on the brink in Central Asia. The border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan has reached a new bottom. The clashes of the past…

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Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis

Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis Despite a history of using discourses of danger to define other transnational challenges (e.g., Islamic radicalism), Central…

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When Does the Crime-Terror Nexus Fail to Materialize? Drug Trafficking, Militants, and the State in Russia

(Journal of Global Security Studies) Abstract: What are the conditions that obstruct the formation of a crime-terror nexus? To answer this question we carry out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of…

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Webs of Corruption: Trafficking and Terrorism in Central Asia [NEW BOOK]

(Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz) Counterterrorism experts and policy makers have warned of the peril posed by the links between violent extremism and organized crime, especially the relationship between…

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The Nature and Sources of Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?

(PONARS Policy Memo) The 2018 FIFA World Cup shifted the attention of terrorism watchers to Russia. In advance of the tournament, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)…

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