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Adviser Offers Glimpse of a Trump Administration’s Central Asia Policy

(Eurasianet) An adviser to American presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized United States policy in Central Asia as unnecessarily antagonistic, giving a rare glimpse into what a Trump presidency could mean…

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McGlinchey: Not saying who will take over after him is a good way for Nazarbayev to keep all sides loyal to him

(FP) Nursultan Nazarbayev has presided over Kazakhstan since 1989. During that span, the president consolidated his grip on power over the media, the economy, and the political process, amassing a…

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McGlinchey: Bishkek will need to do the heavy lifting to increase bilateral cooperation

(Eurasianet) Speculation is mounting that Kyrgyzstan wants to repair relations with the United States after a dispute over human rights torpedoed ties last summer. Kyrgyzstan's dealings with the United States…

Foreign Policy Consequences of Homegrown Eurasian Nationalism

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) U.S. policymakers confront a paradox in Eurasian politics: more pluralistic Central Asian states are more prone than the region’s solidly authoritarian states to ethno-nationalist violence. In…

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McGlinchey: We do not have enough information about ISIS recruits in Central Asia

(The Diplomat) On September 16, just after the CSTO summit held in Dushanbe, Tajik authorities arrested 13 active members of the Islamic Renaissance Party and removed the passports of other…

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McGlinchey, Roberts: Kyrgyzstan’s democracy has room to grow

(The Diplomat) Kyrgyzstan’s political and strategic value as a partner for the United States in Central Asia has waned as the transit center at Manas was closed and the U.S.…

Central Asia’s Autocrats: Geopolitically Stuck, Politically Free

It is often said that China, Russia, and the United States are playing a “great game” in Central Asia. To the extent that these three states are playing games in…

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Schatz: Kazakhstan’s state institutions are fairly hollowed out

(AFP) — McGlinchey: A desire to be accepted abroad has led Nazarbayev to pursue a "less brutal and pernicious" form of authoritarianism. — (Kazakhstan) A shepherd's son who counts former British prime…

Протесты в Центральной Азии

Насильственные протесты в Центральной Азии принимают различные формы, равно как и реакция властей на них. В Казахстане насильственные протесты редки и носят экономический характер, в ответ государство зачастую удовлетворяет требования…

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Policy Memo: States of Protest in Central Asia

The nature of violent protest in Central Asia exhibits variation both in form and state response. In Kazakhstan, violent protest is rare and economically oriented, and it elicits accommodationist state…

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Adviser Offers Glimpse of a Trump Administration’s Central Asia Policy

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