The New President’s Men: Motivations Behind the Change of Stance of Uzbekistan Concerning the Construction of the Rogun Dam By Frédérick Maranda-BouchardJune 2, 2020 Once a never-ending standoff between Uzbekistan… Continue reading The New President’s Men: Motivations Behind the Change of Stance of Uzbekistan Concerning the Construction of the Rogun Dam
Category: Geopolitics
Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China’s Relationship with Central Asia (Video)
Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China’s Relationship with Central Asia with Raffaello Pantucci June 30, 2020 COVID-19 has further exposed tensions that exist within China’s relations with Central Asia. Yet… Continue reading Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China’s Relationship with Central Asia (Video)
Beijing Binds: COVID-19 and the China-Central Asia Relationship
By Raffaello Pantucci Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)Visiting Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) Raffaello Pantucci’s research focuses on terrorism and counter-terrorism… Continue reading Beijing Binds: COVID-19 and the China-Central Asia Relationship
Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia
Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia Sinophobia in Central Asia is real. But does that translate into a threat to China’s lasting presence in the region? By Sebastien PeyrousePublished by The Diplomat,… Continue reading Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia
Reconsidering EU Education Assistance to Central Asia
By Sebastien Peyrouse EUCAM Policy Brief No. 37 Central Asia’s educational systems have been deteriorating for almost three decades. Education is a key EU-driven area of EU-Central Asia cooperation. However,… Continue reading Reconsidering EU Education Assistance to Central Asia
Between Urumchi and Kazan: The Tatars in Chinese Concentration Camps
By Mehmet Volkan Kaşıkçı CAP Paper 219, June 2019 Mehmet Volkan Kaşıkçı is a PhD candidate in Soviet history at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the social and… Continue reading Between Urumchi and Kazan: The Tatars in Chinese Concentration Camps
Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs (video)
On 27 November, 2018, GW’s Central Asia Program hosted a Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs, which included the following panels and speakers: Panel 1: “Contextualizing the Re-education Camps” James A. Millward, Georgetown… Continue reading Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs (video)
The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy in Kazakhstan
By Natalie Koch CAP Paper 211, September 2018 Natalie Koch is Associate Professor of Geography and O’Hanley Faculty Scholar at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She… Continue reading The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy in Kazakhstan
Foreign Investment Law and Sustainable Development in the Kyrgyz Republic (video)
Dr. Begaiym Esenkulova is an Associate Professor of Law of the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) and who is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the Indiana University (Bloomington).… Continue reading Foreign Investment Law and Sustainable Development in the Kyrgyz Republic (video)
Religion and Violence in Russia Context, Manifestations, and Policy (report)
Religious violence is surely as old as both faith and fighting themselves. In the Russian Federation, as elsewhere in the world, religious teachings and philosophies are used both to justify… Continue reading Religion and Violence in Russia Context, Manifestations, and Policy (report)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia
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… Continue reading China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia
The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs
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… Continue reading The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs
False Alarm: Xinjiang and China’s National Security
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… Continue reading False Alarm: Xinjiang and China’s National Security
Voices from the Diaspora: Uyghur Journalists and Protests Against China’s Aggressive Security Crackdown
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.… Continue reading Voices from the Diaspora: Uyghur Journalists and Protests Against China’s Aggressive Security Crackdown
Central Asia Security Workshop: Securing and Securitizing Policies
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… Continue reading Central Asia Security Workshop: Securing and Securitizing Policies
Central Asia Security Workshop: Central Asia’s Regional Environment. Moves and Stabilities
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… Continue reading Central Asia Security Workshop: Central Asia’s Regional Environment. Moves and Stabilities
Central Asia Security Workshop – 2018 (video)
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Research Update: Security Matters in Marriage, Song and Dance in China’s Muslim Borderlands, and Uyghur Gathering
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… Continue reading Research Update: Security Matters in Marriage, Song and Dance in China’s Muslim Borderlands, and Uyghur Gathering
East Turkistan, the Forgotten Country
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… Continue reading East Turkistan, the Forgotten Country
Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty. The Return of Tamerlane?
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.… Continue reading Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty. The Return of Tamerlane?
The European Union’s Influence in Central Asia. Geopolitical Challenges and Responses
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… Continue reading The European Union’s Influence in Central Asia. Geopolitical Challenges and Responses
Grassroots Peacebuilding: Cross-Border Cooperation in the Ferghana Valley
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.… Continue reading Grassroots Peacebuilding: Cross-Border Cooperation in the Ferghana Valley
Between Resistance and Adaptation: the Place of the Uyghur Language in the Sinicised Zone of Urumchi
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… Continue reading Between Resistance and Adaptation: the Place of the Uyghur Language in the Sinicised Zone of Urumchi
