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What Makes “Ardent Democrats” in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan?

(PONARS Policy Memo) If Kazakhstan is home to Eurasia’s longest serving ruler, neighboring Kyrgyzstan is among its most competitive polities. We wanted to know if, as a growing body of literature…

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U.S. Security Assistance to Central Asia: Examining Limits, Exploring Opportunities

(PONARS Policy Memo) The U.S. government spent $1.9 billion on security assistance to Central Asia between 2001 and 2016. The aid was designed to increase the professionalism of Central Asian ground…

Qatar and Central Asia: What’s at Stake in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Relations between Central Asian states and the Gulf Arab monarchies have expanded rapidly over the past decade. With one of the most outward-looking foreign policy agendas of…

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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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Passing Central Asian Power Batons: What Can We Expect? | Omelicheva, Radnitz, Juraev (Part 1 of 2)

The presidential succession in Uzbekistan following the death of Islam Karimov in September 2016 has rejuvenated discussion about the nature and future of Central Asia’s political regimes. Uzbekistan’s new president,…

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Passing Central Asian Power Batons: What Can We Expect? | Kassenova, Schatz, McGlinchey (Part 2 of 2)

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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).…

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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Juraev: The Kyrgyz government targets relatively easy cases of corruption based on “who is networked and who is not”

(Lawyer Herald) Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Temir Sariyev resigned Monday amid allegations of corruption involving a road construction project in ex-Soviet nation. President Almazbek Atanbayev quickly accepted the PMs resignation. PM Sariyev…

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New Book: Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries…

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What Makes “Ardent Democrats” in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan?

U.S. Security Assistance to Central Asia: Examining Limits, Exploring Opportunities

Qatar and Central Asia: What’s at Stake in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan?

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Passing Central Asian Power Batons: What Can We Expect? | Kassenova, Schatz, McGlinchey (Part 2 of 2)

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

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

Juraev: The Kyrgyz government targets relatively easy cases of corruption based on “who is networked and who is not”

New Book: Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World