Central Asia Grows Wobbly
(Journal Article) (“Russia and Eurasia: October 2012″) Central Asia was, before the Russian Revolution, and is again since the Soviet collapse, imagined as critical to world politics. This, after all,…
Young Soldiers’ Tales of War in Nagorno-Karabakh
(Journal Article) The active participation of children and young men in armed conflicts has not lost its significance as a global phenomenon in the twenty-first century. In Eurasia, where numerous…
Why Doesn’t the Bulgarian Judiciary Prosecute Corruption?
(Journal Article) Bulgaria's experience with the prosecution of political corruption suggests that increasing the power and institutional independence of the courts in new democracies does not guarantee that judges will…
Foreign Policy and Competing Mediation in the Middle East and Central Asia
(Hollings Center report) (in English and Russian/на русском) The political upheavals in the Middle East have shifted the foreign policy landscape in the region. States like Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia…
“Pacific Russia” is Still a Dream
(Report) The APEC summit in Vladivostok is designed to emphasize just how much today's Russia aspires to become a recognized Pacific power. But the context in which the summit will…
Security and development approaches to Central Asia
(Co-authors: Sebastien Peyrouse, Jos Boonstra) This EUCAM report looks at the activities of three external actors – Russia, China, and the EU – in the sphere of security and…
PONARS Eurasia Policy Perspectives
It is with pleasure that we announce the online publication of two new volumes in the PONARS Eurasia Policy Perspectives series: Dividing Lines in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy…
Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (New Book)
Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 By Ted Hopf Oxford University Press Description (Amazon): General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are…
Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States (New Book)
Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States by Kimberly Marten Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Cornell University Press Description (Amazon): Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states,…
Central Asia’s Border Woes & the Impact of International Assistance (New Report)
Over the last decade, the Central Asian republics have hosted a number of international programs designed to overhaul, equip, and reform the region’s border control practices aimed at making…
Eurovision’s Dirty Secret (Azerbaijan)
(BBC PANORAMA) Panorama goes undercover inside Azerbaijan, the host country of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, to discover the extraordinary truth about this secretive country and its approach to the…
President for Life: Turkmenbashi’s Reign of Terror
(JOURNEYMAN PICTURES) President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan was the dictator famous in the West for his crazy decrees and bizarre personality cult. But for his people, there was nothing comical…