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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September 2013 at Nazarbayev University. It is…

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Tajikistan on the Move. Statebuilding and Societal Transformations

4 May, 2018

Tajikistan on the Move. State-building and Societal Transformations EDITED BY MARLENE LARUELLE – CONTRIBUTIONS BY JESSE DRISCOLL; MICHELE COMMERCIO; HAFIZ BOBOYOROV; TIM EPKENHANS; JOHN HEATHERSHAW; BRENT HIERMAN; SOPHIE HOHMANN; MARLENE LARUELLE; EDWARD LEMON;…

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The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs

23 March, 2018

Sean R. Roberts (2018) The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs, Critical Asian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111 This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies…

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False Alarm: Xinjiang and China’s National Security

23 March, 2018

Author: Yitzhak Shichor Source: The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies Abstract: A remote region in Western China usually avoided by foreigners, and even by Chinese, Xinjiang has reached…

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Voices from the Diaspora: Uyghur Journalists and Protests Against China’s Aggressive Security Crackdown

23 March, 2018

Separated Souls: Uighur journalist’s unbreakable resolve to help her detained family Source: Amnesty International Gulchehra Hoja still remembers the first time her daughter, then three years old, met her grandparents.…

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Central Asia Security Workshop: Securing and Securitizing Policies

20 March, 2018

Central Asia Security Workshop, March 5, 2018 Transcripts of the presentations Roger Kangas, National Defense University US Strategy for South Asia/Afghanistan and its Impact on Central Asia I’ll speak from up here. First…

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Central Asia Security Workshop: Rethinking the Obvious. Changes in Perceptions, Strategies and Policies

20 March, 2018

Central Asia Security Workshop, March 5, 2018 Transcripts of the presentations Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University Kazakhstani Perceptions of External Powers. Unexpected Findings of Survey Analysis What I wanted…

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Central Asia Security Workshop: Central Asia’s Regional Environment. Moves and Stabilities

20 March, 2018

Central Asia Security Workshop, March 5, 2018 Transcripts of the presentations Alexander Cooley, Columbia University Central Asia as Part of Greater Eurasia? Prospects and Challenges And it’s a pleasure to be here once…

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Central Asia Security Workshop – 2018 (video)

12 March, 2018

5 March 2018 Full video of the event:

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Research Update: Security Matters in Marriage, Song and Dance in China’s Muslim Borderlands, and Uyghur Gathering

6 March, 2018

Author: Mei Ding, Fudan University Source: Central Asian Survey Abstract: Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China in 2016 and 2017, this article addresses…

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East Turkistan, the Forgotten Country

6 March, 2018

Author: Çağdaş Duman Source: Research Gate There exist the Pamir Mountains and Karakum Desert in the south and the Altay Mountains in the north of East Turkistan constituting the…

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Assessing the Impact of NGO Peacebuilding Programs in the South Caucasus: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh

6 March, 2018

By Jeyhun Veliyev CAP Paper 204 (CAAF Fellows Papers), March 2018 Jeyhun Veliyev is a junior researcher interested in political economy, energy security, conflict, human rights, and democracy-building in post-Soviet…

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Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty. The Return of Tamerlane?

6 March, 2018

Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty. The Return of Tamerlane? EDITED BY DANIEL L. BURGHART AND THERESA SABONIS-HELF – CONTRIBUTIONS BY LAURA ADAMS; SVETLANA ANCKER; DANIEL L. BURGHART; YUHAO DU; STACIE L.…

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The European Union’s Influence in Central Asia. Geopolitical Challenges and Responses

2 March, 2018

The European Union’s Influence in Central Asia. Geopolitical Challenges and Responses OLGA ALINDA SPAISER Unknown yet highly strategic, Central Asia attracts the interest of major global powers due to its…

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Culture and Islam in Late Central Asia (video)

26 February, 2018

15 February, 2018 Full video of the event:

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‘Bourgeois’ Islam, Prosperity Theology, and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia (video)

21 February, 2018

29 January, 2018 Full video of the event:

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Engaging Youth to Sustain (Inter-Communal) Peace at the Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan Border

12 February, 2018

By Jafar Usmanov CAP Fellows Paper 203 (CAAF Fellows Papers), February 2018 Jafar Usmanov is a researcher on youth development issues in Tajikistan. He has studied global governance and international…

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Culture and Islam in Late Soviet Central Asia

12 February, 2018

By CAP CAP Paper 199, January 2018 On February 15, 2018, GW’s Central Asia Program organized a workshop on “‘Culture and Islam in Late Soviet Central Asia” in the framework…

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Grassroots Peacebuilding: Cross-Border Cooperation in the Ferghana Valley

5 February, 2018

By Diana Mamatova CAP Fellows Paper 202 (CAAF Fellows Papers), January 2018 Diana Mamatova is a young professional in the areas of peacebuilding, development and program management, and policy research.…

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Between Resistance and Adaptation: the Place of the Uyghur Language in the Sinicised Zone of Urumchi

30 January, 2018

Research Between resistance and adaptation: The place of the Uyghur language in the sinicised zone of Urumchi Author: Giulia Cabras Source: China Perspectives Abstract: The urban areas of Xinjiang have…

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Uyghur and Chinese Relations since 1949 (video)

30 January, 2018

Video Uyghur and Chinese Relations since 1949 Speaker: James Millward, Georgetown University Professor James Millward, Georgetown University discusses Uyghur and Han relations in Xinjiang since the foundation of the People’s…

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China’s Xinjiang to Build “Great Wall” to Protect Border: Governor

30 January, 2018

News from the Region China’s Xinjiang to build “Great Wall” to protect border: governor Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will build a “Great…

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Towards a New Uzbekistan? The Magnitude, Impact and Limitations of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Reforms

30 January, 2018

By CAP Transcript of the CAP workshop Towards a New Uzbekistan? The Magnitude, Impact and Limitations of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Reforms, January 24, 2017 Sean Roberts, GWU Navbahor Imamova, Voice of America…