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Breaking the Nation’s Taboo: Meds Yeghern and Turkish Intellectuals

On December 12, 2008, a group of Turkish intellectuals launched an internet campaign to apologize for the World War I-era slaughter of Armenians in Turkey. Significantly, the “apology campaign” did…

These Colors May Run: The Backlash Against the U.S.-Backed ‘Democratic Revolutions’ in Eurasia

The victory of Viktor Yanukovych in the second round of Ukraine’s 2010 presidential election has been widely portrayed as a rebuke of the 2004 Orange Revolution and the pro-Western alignment…

Back on Track?: Kyrgyz Authoritarianism after the Tulip Revolution

The year 2010 marks the fifth anniversary of Kyrgyzstan’s Tulip Revolution. The events of March 2005 fostered hopes that Kyrgyzstan was on a fast track to democracy. Five years later,…

Beyond ‘Resource Nationalism:’ Implications of State Ownership in Kazakhstan’s Petroleum Sector

Analysts have likened the growing direct state role in Kazakhstan’s petroleum sector since 2002 to a form of resource nationalism that is part of a global trend precipitated by high…

Prospects for Islamic Radicalism and Violent Extremism in the North Caucasus and Central Asia

The decision by leaders of the armed separatist movement in Chechnya in the late 1990s to embrace a radical Islamic agenda raised concerns that Islamic terrorist groups would seek to…

Convergence in Post-Soviet Political Systems?: A Comparative Analysis of Russian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections

Next year will mark twenty years since the first more or less free and fair elections were held in the USSR in March 1989. Since then, numerous elections have been…

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