Publications – Page 2 – Central Asia Program

By Asel OmarTranslated from Russia by Shelley Fairweather-Vega TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: Asel Omar’s “Black Snow of December” presents a version of events from Kazakhstan’s recent history that, alas, are still little discussed…

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Bлияние программ переселения на повышение конфликтности в регионах Казахстана

15 July, 2022

Авторы Айман Жусупова, кандидат политических наук, руководитель проектов Евразийского центра по человеческим ресурсам (Алматы, Казахстан) Гульмира Илеуова, кандидат социологических наук, президент Общественного фондa «Центр социaльных и политических исследовaний «Стрaтегия» (Алматы,…

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The Future of The CASA-1000 Electric Megaproject in the Context of the New Afghanistan

12 July, 2022

An Economic and Financial Impact Analysis Waris Ahmad Faizi is currently an Erasmus+ exchange student at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU) in Germany, where he is pursuing an MA…

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Negotiating Gender in Central Asia

3 May, 2022

With estimates ranging from 5,000 to 7,000 men and women migrating to Syria and Iraq from the Central Asian states since April 2013, the region ranks third in supplying foreign…

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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Turkmenistan’s Presidency and Serdarism

8 April, 2022

By Victoria Clement Dr. Victoria Clement is the owner of Central Asian Insights, a consulting firm in northern Virginia. Clement has more than twenty-five years experience developing, executing, and presenting…

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Inequality Between Students of Rural and Urban Schools in Kazakhstan: Causes and Ways to Address It

9 November, 2021

By Zhaslan Nurbayev Zhaslan Nurbayev is a PhD / Candidate of Sciences in History and Associate Professor in the Department of Regional Studies of L.N. Gumilev Eurasian National University. In 2014-2015,…

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Transition to Sustainability in Azerbaijan: Policy Review and Analysis

29 October, 2021

By Ilaha Abasli Ilaha was a Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellow. She is a PhD researcher at Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus Rotterdam University. Ilaha holds a Master’s degree in International…

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Facilitators of Societal Change? Exploring Educated-Abroad Youth’s Potential to Advance Gender Equality in Turkmenistan Through Civic Activism

27 October, 2021

By Rustam Muhamedov Muhamedov Rustam was a Spring 2021CAAFP Fellow. He is an independent researcher focusing on social-political and security developments in Turkmenistan and wider Central Asia. He is currently…

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Violent Extremism and Youth: How to Build a Productive Dialogue Between Young People and Government

26 October, 2021

By Anastassiya Reshetnyak Anastassiya Reshetnyak was a Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellow. She graduated from al-Farabi Kaz NU (BA and MA in Regional Studies) and is currently involved in the PhD…

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Taliban at the Border: A New Regime Neighboring Tajikistan

22 October, 2021

By Mélanie Sadozaï Mélanie Sadozaï is a doctoral student at INALCO, Paris, specializing in border studies and Afghanistan – Tajikistan relations in contemporary Pamir. She is an associate of GW’s…

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Iran’s New Membership and Russia’s Global Vision: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Transformations

14 October, 2021

By Janko Šćepanović, Ph.D. Janko Šćepanović, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Advanced International and Area Studies (SAIAS) of East China Normal University in Shanghai, People’s Republic…

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How South Korea Builds its Soft Power in Latin America, Learning Lessons From its Diaspora Outreach in Russia and Central Asia

14 October, 2021

By Victoria Kim Victoria Kim holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS in Korean Studies and MA from the University of Bolton in International Multimedia Journalism. Originally from…

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Q-Pop, The Pride of Kazakh Youth, and its Stimulation of Ethnic Identity

23 September, 2021

By Kakim Danabayev, PhD, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea • Jowon Park, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Hanyang University, Seoul,…

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China and Central Asia: Warm Politics, Cold Public

7 September, 2021

By Dr. Kemel Toktomushev Dr. Kemel Toktomushev is a Senior Research Fellow with University of Central Asia’s (UCA) Institute of Public Policy and Administration and an Assistant Professor of Political…

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Reclaiming Historical Past and Collective Public Memory: The Case of Valikhanov in Kazakhstan

16 June, 2021

Nazerke Mukhlissova is currently a student at Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, double majoring in Political Science and History. Her paper on Valikhanov and Kazakhstani public memory has been accepted by…

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Competing for Cake Crumbs: Why Chinese Mining Leads to Conflict in Kyrgyzstan but not Tajikistan

7 June, 2021

By Isabelle DeSisto Isabelle DeSisto is currently an MPhil candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. She holds a BA in Government…

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The United States, Kazakhstan, and Environmental Cooperation

24 May, 2021

By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez Wilder Alejandro Sanchez is an analyst who covers geopolitical, trade, and defense issues in the post-Soviet world and the Western Hemisphere. He has analyzed Kazakhstan’s foreign policy…

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Examining the Causes of Femicide in Kazakhstan

23 April, 2021

By Moldir Kabylova Moldir is a PhD student in Public Policy at University of Nottingham, UK. The main theme of the research work she is conducting for her PhD thesis is…

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The Many Faces of Polygyny in Kazakhstan

16 April, 2021

Hélène Thibault has been Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, since 2016. She specializes in ethnography, gender, and the securitization of Islam in Central Asia. She is…

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Кыргызстан 2020: протесты рабочих и трудовые права

31 March, 2021

Бермет Борубаева Бермет Борубаева – независимая исследовательница, участница коллектива КыргСоц, автор ряда публикаций по теме трудовых прав, экологии, урбанистики и искусства. Выпускница факультета международных отношений Кыргызского-Российского Славянского университета (Бишкек) и…

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Социальные движения как отражение поляризации в кыргызстанском обществе

16 March, 2021

Photo Credit: Succo at Pixabay Александра Филатова Александра Филатова – исследовательница Аналитического Консорциума «Перспектива», магистр политических наук Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики» На примере октябрьских событий B первый…

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Социальные группы поддержки политика С. Жапарова

8 March, 2021

Photo Credit: Kyrgyzstan Presidency Press Office Нургуль Эсенаманова Нургуль Эсенаманова в настоящее время является независимым экспертом, исследует феномены радикализации, насильственного экстремизма, терроризма – причины, проявления и ответные меры. Она…

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ONE EURASIA OR MANY? Regional Interconnections and Connectivity Projects on the Eurasian Continent

3 March, 2021

The aim of this book is to critically review the processes of integration and region-building in Greater Eurasia. Integration is a broad term that covers any rise in economic and…