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Roberts: Not unlike after 9/11, when China tried to make connections between Uighur dissent and Al-Qaeda

(Al Jazeera) Chinese officials are reportedly mulling military action against ISIL — an extremist group that Beijing now says includes a growing number of adherents from its embattled predominantly Muslim…

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Local Governance and Decentralization Assessment: Implications of Proposed Reforms in Ukraine

(USAID | by Sean R. Roberts and Oleksandr Fisun) This report is the result of an extensive assessment of the process of proposed decentralization reforms in Ukraine as it relates…

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Why Ukraine’s Crisis Keeps Central Asian Leaders Up at Night

(By Marlene Laruelle and Sean Roberts) The ongoing crisis in Ukraine highlights just how contested and potentially unstable our geopolitical landscape is becoming, but how one interprets the crisis depends…

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Why the Carrot Isn’t Working, Either

(Foreign Policy) (Co-author: Scott Radnitz) — The Chinese government thinks it can thwart unrest among ethnic minorities by raising their incomes. But prosperity doesn't buy loyalty. — On Oct. 28,…

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China’s Wild West: A Cautionary Tale of Ethnic Conflict and Development

(The Diplomat) While the international media has extensively analyzed the demonstrations and street clashes in Turkey, Brazil and Egypt over the last several weeks, there has been very little coverage…

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Rating Nazarbayev’s Likely Successors

Recently, I wrote a PONARS Eurasia policy memo about what I termed an “unlikely succession struggle” in Kazakhstan. In this paper, I noted that, despite the popularity of President Nursultan…

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Проблемы преемственности и смены власти в Украине, Казахстане и на Кавказе

Публикуем русский перевод материалов секции ежегодной конференции программы ПОНАРС Евразия, посвященной проблемам смены руководства в Украине, Казахстане и на Кавказе. В аналитической записке Александра Фисуна доказывается, что изменения избирательных законов…

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Roberts

Roberts: Not unlike after 9/11, when China tried to make connections between Uighur dissent and Al-Qaeda

Local Governance and Decentralization Assessment: Implications of Proposed Reforms in Ukraine

Why Ukraine’s Crisis Keeps Central Asian Leaders Up at Night

Why the Carrot Isn’t Working, Either

China’s Wild West: A Cautionary Tale of Ethnic Conflict and Development

Rating Nazarbayev’s Likely Successors

Проблемы преемственности и смены власти в Украине, Казахстане и на Кавказе

Преемственность власти в Казахстане: Как решить маловероятный кризис?

Resolving Kazakhstan’s Unlikely Succession Crisis

What’s Ethnicity Got to Do With It? Healing the Wounds of Uzbek-Kyrgyz Violence in the Ferghana Valley