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Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (New Book)

A look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West. Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former…

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Eurasia’s CSTO and SCO: A Failure to Address the Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus

(PONARS Policy Memo) The topic of collective responses to terrorism, extremism, and transnational organized crime has long dominated discussions within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).…

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Kassenova: Central Asian Countries Worry about Chinese Influence in Creating a New Silk Road

(WSJ) As the U.S., U.K. and others hit pause on globalization, China is flexing its economic muscle with an ambitious infrastructure-building spree that would connect up to a third of…

Strategic Solidarity: How Central Asia Responds to the Kremlin’s Exhortations

(PONARS Policy Memo) The Central Asian states have endeavored over the past two decades to maintain the appropriate amount of distance from the regional hegemon, Russia. They have sought to balance…

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U.S.-Russia relations in Central Asia: Change within

(Washington Times) While the US-Russia relationship has been deteriorating rapidly since 2014 and faces a new crisis with the current situation around Aleppo, the bilateral relationship in Central Asia has been relatively…

Counter-Radicalization Policies in Central Asia: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

(PONARS Policy Memo) In 2011, four Central Asian states signed a Joint Plan of Action in Ashgabat pledging to work together to counter radicalization and terrorism in the region. Since…

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Schatz: Right away, we wanted to start a petition to bring Mr. Sodiqov home

(UA/AU) Barely a day had passed since Alexander Sodiqov had been jailed in Central Asia and his colleague Edward Schatz was already mulling a public campaign to bring Mr. Sodiqov home.…

Is Russia Coming to Terms with China’s “Silk Road”?

(PONARS Policy Memo) China’s Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) initiative has been developing at a fast pace since its launch a few years ago. Stretching from China to Europe, the SREB…

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Turkmenistan, Iran Seek Closer Ties as Antidote to Isolation; Peyrouse’s book quoted

(Eurasianet) Turkmenistan finds itself isolated of its own volition, Iran through international sanctions. Over the last month, the two countries, which share a 922-kilometer border, have engaged in a flurry of…

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A Trafficking-Terrorism Nexus in Central Asia

(The Diplomat) (Co-authored by Lawrence Markowitz) The two-day June 2016 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan hosted leaders from the region to address a range of traditional issues, including drug trafficking,…

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Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (New Book)

Eurasia’s CSTO and SCO: A Failure to Address the Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus

Kassenova: Central Asian Countries Worry about Chinese Influence in Creating a New Silk Road

Strategic Solidarity: How Central Asia Responds to the Kremlin’s Exhortations

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Counter-Radicalization Policies in Central Asia: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Schatz: Right away, we wanted to start a petition to bring Mr. Sodiqov home

Is Russia Coming to Terms with China’s “Silk Road”?

Turkmenistan, Iran Seek Closer Ties as Antidote to Isolation; Peyrouse’s book quoted

A Trafficking-Terrorism Nexus in Central Asia