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Bordering on Insanity: Afghanistan’s Struggle to Control Its Borders

(Foreign Affairs) On a tour of the Afghan-Pakistan border a couple years after the collapse of the Taliban government, Afghanistan’s minister of the interior was in for a rude awakening.…

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Policy Memo: Exceptions Prove the Rule: Ukraine, Iraq, and the Fate of International Borders

Just months apart, the implosions of Ukraine and Iraq have alarmed many policymakers, journalists, and international affairs experts who worry that the modern state and its borders are on the…

Exceptions Prove the Rule: Ukraine, Iraq, and the Fate of International Borders

Just months apart, the implosions of Ukraine and Iraq have alarmed many policymakers, journalists, and international affairs experts who worry that the modern state and its borders are on the…

Moldova’s (Not So) Troubled Borders

Days after Moldova had initialed its Association Agreement with the European Union at the Vilnius Summit in December 2013, officials at breakaway Transnistria’s de facto Ministry of Foreign Affairs mocked…

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New Policy Memo: The Pitfalls of Competing Mediation: What Tajikistan Teaches Us about Syria

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s spate of recent meetings with Russian officials are intended to chip away at the icy character of U.S.-Russian relations and bring Washington and Moscow…

The Pitfalls of Competing Mediation: What Tajikistan Teaches Us about Syria

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s spate of recent meetings with Russian officials are intended to chip away at the icy character of U.S.-Russian relations and bring Washington and Moscow…

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…

The International Community’s Elusive Search for Common Ground in Central Asia

At a closed-door, high-level gathering in Paris in 2008, the United Nations’ special representative to Afghanistan urged ministers from Eurasia, the Middle East, and South Asia to jointly tackle common…

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…

Why Regional Solutions Won’t Help Afghanistan

Why Regional Solutions Won’t Help Afghanistan The Myth of Neighborly Harmony by George Gavrilis | October 18, 2011 | © Foreign Affairs Summary: In the lead up to the November 2…

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