Online Event Tuesday, April 9, 2024 from 10:00-11:00am EDT Vassily Klimentov will be discussing his book, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam, published by Northern Illinois University Press… Continue reading A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam
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Migrants and Exiles: The New Mobility Reshaping Central Asia and Russia
Annual Security Workshop: Navigating Global Turbulence: Building Resilience in Central Asia
In-Person Event Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 8:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EDT) Central Asia is at a pivotal point, facing significant geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges that could have… Continue reading Annual Security Workshop: Navigating Global Turbulence: Building Resilience in Central Asia
Navigating Turmoil: The Dynamics of Armenian-Azerbaijani Relations in 2024
Online Event Thursday, March 14, 2024 from 11:00am – 12:15pm Nearly six months since the end of the Third Karabakh War, tensions persist along the Armenia-Azerbaijan borders as both nations… Continue reading Navigating Turmoil: The Dynamics of Armenian-Azerbaijani Relations in 2024
Navigating the New Energy Geopolitics: Assessing Russia’s Power Play in Central Asia’s Post-2022 Gas Crisis
Hybrid Event Friday, March 8, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30am The disruption of Russian gas supplies in 2022 sparked a profound reappraisal of supply and infrastructure dependencies beyond the EU-Russia… Continue reading Navigating the New Energy Geopolitics: Assessing Russia’s Power Play in Central Asia’s Post-2022 Gas Crisis
Formalities of Contemporary Central Asian Militaries
Author: László Kövecses is currently a PhD student in History at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. Previously he earned his MSc degree at the University of Glasgow in Russian, Central… Continue reading Formalities of Contemporary Central Asian Militaries
Exploring the Dynamics of Open Government in Kazakhstan: A Critical Assessment of Tokayev’s “Listening State” Reform
Image from Kazakhstan’s Presidential Press Service Online Event In March 2019, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev assumed the presidency through a meticulously orchestrated succession, pledging to advance political liberalization and foster greater responsiveness… Continue reading Exploring the Dynamics of Open Government in Kazakhstan: A Critical Assessment of Tokayev’s “Listening State” Reform
Central Asia: Multi-Vector Policy for the 21st Century – Strategy and Development
Hybrid Event Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 from 10:00am-2:00pm Central Asia’s multi-vector approach to diplomacy has long been a cornerstone of its foreign policy, playing a prominent role in regional discussions.… Continue reading Central Asia: Multi-Vector Policy for the 21st Century – Strategy and Development
Central Asian Regionalism: Insights from Inside and Out
Hybrid Event Since the dawn of independence, the five post-Soviet Central Asian republics have identified themselves as a single political region. However, their separate efforts to shape national identities, institutions,… Continue reading Central Asian Regionalism: Insights from Inside and Out
The 80th Anniversary of the Chechen and Ingush Deportation: What is its legacy today?
Virtual EventTuesday, February 27, 2024 from 10:00-11:00am Join us for a discussion organized by the Central Asia Program at The George Washington University to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the… Continue reading The 80th Anniversary of the Chechen and Ingush Deportation: What is its legacy today?
Introducing B5+1
An Initiative Under CIPE’s Program IBECA – Improving the Business Environment in Central Asia
Introducing B5+1
An Initiative Under CIPE’s Program IBECA – Improving the Business Environment in Central Asia
Turan Business Forum in New York
Friday, December 15 @ 4 – 9pm EST Location: 404 Broadway New York, NY 10013 Turan Business Forum in New York has united entrepreneurs from: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,… Continue reading Turan Business Forum in New York
Central Asia’s Aral Sea: Lessons for Today’s Climate Crisis
Hybrid Event, Image by NASA Earth Observatory December 11, 9:00 am – 10:30 am (EST) Once one of the world’s largest inland bodies of water, the Aral Sea began to shrink… Continue reading Central Asia’s Aral Sea: Lessons for Today’s Climate Crisis
Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Protest Motivations, Public Perceptions and Human Rights
Online discussion co-organized by the PaperLab Research Center (Astana, Kazakhstan). Image provided by PaperLab.kz. Thursday, December 7, 2023, 9:00 am – 10:30 am EST In the first days of 2022,… Continue reading Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Protest Motivations, Public Perceptions and Human Rights
Perceptions of the January 2022 events in Kazakhstan
Research report, 2023 Perceptions of the January 2022 events in Kazakhstan by the Kazakhstani society – a research report by the PaperLab Research Center based in Astana, Kazakhstan. This research… Continue reading Perceptions of the January 2022 events in Kazakhstan
Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations after the Third Karabakh War
Virtual Seminar, image by Arzu Geybulla December 4, 2023 @ 12:00–1:15 p.m. (EST) The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reached a dramatic end on September 19, 2023, when the Azerbaijani military ended the self-proclaimed… Continue reading Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations after the Third Karabakh War
Researching Central Asia. Navigating Positionality in the Field
Virtual Roundtable December 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am EST Researching Central Asia can be interesting, entertaining, life-changing, traumatizing and, at the very least, thought provoking. The way… Continue reading Researching Central Asia. Navigating Positionality in the Field
Social and Political Processes in Central Asia amid Internal and External Shocks
December 4, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am EST Social and political developments in Central Asia received greater attention following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in particular the immediate… Continue reading Social and Political Processes in Central Asia amid Internal and External Shocks
The Tarikh-i Hamidi: A Late-Qing Uyghur History
Book launch featuring Dr. Eric Schluessel Thursday, November 16, 2023 1:00–2:30 p.m. (EST) Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E ST NW, Washington, DC Room 602 This will be a hybrid event:… Continue reading The Tarikh-i Hamidi: A Late-Qing Uyghur History
The Language and Writing of the Dungans
Online lecture with Professor Zhang Zhengsheng November 3, 2023 @ 4:00 – 5:00 PM (EDT) The Dungan people, descendants of Chinese Hui Muslims who migrated to Central Asia over a… Continue reading The Language and Writing of the Dungans
The Eurasian Middle Corridor and Foreign Investment
An event by New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, The International Investment and Tax Center, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, October 18, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m. Texas Room,… Continue reading The Eurasian Middle Corridor and Foreign Investment
Cross-Border Relations between Central Asia and Afghanistan in the Taliban Era
Online event co-sponsored by The Kennan Institute October 26, 2023 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. (EDT) The border areas between the Central Asian states and Afghanistan have often been portrayed… Continue reading Cross-Border Relations between Central Asia and Afghanistan in the Taliban Era
