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CAP Event Archives

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Water Security and Transboundary Cooperation in Central Asia

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Central Asia Reconnected: Regional Integration in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape

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The Legacy of Corruption: Karim Massimov and the Nazarbayev System

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Navigating Geopolitical Shifts: Central Asia’s Quest for Autonomy and Sustainable Development

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Turkmenistan’s Social Contract under Scrutiny: Ongoing Challenges and International Responses

- Events Calendar
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After the War: What a Ukraine Peace Agreement Could Mean for Central Asia

Collections and Collectors: Central Asian Masterpieces in European Museums

A view on cargo trains from an overpass

Central Asia: A Loophole for Russia’s Sanctions?

Bolashak Fellows Summer Conference 2023

China’s Genocide Against Uyghurs

Russian Migration to Central Asia and the South Caucasus

Safety of Journalists in Central Asia: Challenges and Responses

Celebrating Mukhtar Auezov’s Legacy

Violence on the Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan Border: Causes and Consequences

Escaping the Taliban, One Year Later: Afghan Voices of Hope

Dungan Folktales and Legends: The Folkloric Narrative Tradition of the Sino-Muslims in Central Asia

Karakalpakstan Two Months on: Karakalpak and Independent Voices Speak

Reform Crisis in Uzbekistan and the Karakalpak Protests

Giant Gap Discovered in Research on Central Asia: How Climate Change Has Been Overlookedby the Research Community

Referendum in Kazakhstan: Political Reset or Political Redux?

The Reasons Behind a New Wave of Violence in the Pamirs

Kazakhstan’s Political Reforms Amidst Geopolitical Shifts

Video – Risks and Opportunities for Central Asia in a New Geopolitical Context

Video – What is the Current State of Religious Freedom in Uzbekistan?

Video – EU Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism (PVE) by Engaging Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan: Evidence from the Ground

Video – Dynastic Succession in Turkmenistan: Will it Make Any Difference?

- CAP Spotlight
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Modernity, Development and Decolonization of Knowledge in Central Asia: Kazakhstan as a Foreign Aid Donor

Central Asia as a Pivot in China’s BRI

Kazakhstan: What Next? Understanding the Protests and the Post Protest Political Context

What is Happening in Kazakhstan? (Video and Transcription)

- Civil Society in Central Asia
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Video – The State of Civil Society in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan

Video – Editors on Central Asia: New Handbooks for a Maturing Field

Video – What Next In China’s Growing Security Footprint In Tajikistan?

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Video – President Mirziyoyev’s Second Term In Office: What Next For Uzbekistan?

Video – Book Launch: Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality, and Resistance in Central Asia

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Video – Политика памяти в Центральной Азии и проблема постколониализма

Video – Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction

Video – Questioning Sovietness in Post-Soviet Nationbuilding

Video – Book Launch of Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia

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Video – Looking Back on Central Asia’s Perestroika: Political Narratives and Political Mobilization | Оглядываясь на перестройку в Ц

Video – Ground Truth: Local Views About The Taliban’s Return

Video – Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Resurgence of the Taliban

Video – Marriage Quandaries in Central Asia

Video – Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellows Research Presentation

China’s Vaccine Diplomacy In Central Asia: What Next?

Remembering Kazakhstan’s Great Famine of the 1930s

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Representing Cultural Diversity in Russia. The Eurovision contest and Manizha’s “Russian Woman” Performance

The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th – Century Central Asia (Video)

Память из пламени Афганистана (видео)

The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution (Video)

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Double Book Launch: Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roads (Video)

Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin

Book Launch – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm (Video)

Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Video)

30th Anniversary of US-Kazakh Diplomatic Relations (Video)

Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)

Book Launch: Land of Strangers – The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia (Video)

Kazakhstan’s Parliamentary Elections: What Next? (Video)

The Other Side of Oil (Video)

Parental Labor Migration and Educational Attainment in Kyrgyzstan (Video)

Current Challenges Facing the Post-Soviet Societies of Central Asia (Video)

What’s At Stake In Tajikistan’s Presidential Elections (Video)

Current Challenges in Tajikistan with Muhiddin Kabiri (Video)

Kazakhstan’s Policy on Multilingualism with Jill Neuendorf (Video)

Book Launch: Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era (Video)

- Domestic Politics
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Current Developments in Uzbekistan: A Conversation with H.E. Javlon Vakhabov, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the US and Canada (Video)

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Central Asian Migrants in Russia (Video)

Post COVID-19: Building Resilience in Central Asia (Video)

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- Health

Turkmenistan and the Fight Against COVID-19 (Video)

- China
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Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China’s Relationship with Central Asia (Video)

- Domestic Politics
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Crisis Management as a Test of Reforms in Uzbekistan (Video)

- Domestic Politics
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Political Stability and Human Security in Tajikistan in Time of COVID-19 (Video)

- Domestic Politics
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Kyrgyzstan’s Slide to Autocracy (Video)

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- Radicalization

The Return of Foreign Fighters from Conflict Zones: Kazakhstan’s Experience

Soft Infrastructure Development in Central Asia 2020: Effective Infrastructure Development Through Legislation, Regulation, Policies, Governance, and Public Private Frameworks

The Central Asia-Azerbaijan Fellowship Program’s Seminar: Youth as a Factor of Social Change in Central Asia

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The Researcher and His/Her Fieldwork in Central Eurasia (photo gallery)

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Spring 2019 CAP Fellows Final Seminar Series (video)

Improving Human Capital and Social Innovation in a post-Karimov Uzbekistan (video)

The Rise of Social Media in Central Asia – Spring 2019 CAP Fellows Seminar Series (video)

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The Hungry Steppe Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan with author Sarah Cameron (video)

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Russian Policy in Syria and the Middle East: Determination, Delight, and Disappointment (video)

Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs (video)

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“Not In Our Name”: A research and documentary project developed by RFE/RL (video of the discussion)

Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World: A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan with author Eugene Huskey and Ambassador Kadyr M. Toktogulov (video)

Orange and Blue: the World of Barzu- Promoting Central Asia through Children’s Literature (video)

Assessing the Terrorist Threat In and From Central Asia

Foreign Investment Law and Sustainable Development in the Kyrgyz Republic (video)

Central Asia Security Workshop – 2018 (video)

Culture and Islam in Late Central Asia (video)

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

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

Global Powers and Competing ‘Fixes’ in Central Asia

Deciphering the Notion of “Uzbek Terrorists”

Islam and the State in Central Asia – a Friedrich Ebert Foundation Report

The Transformation of Tajikistan’s Religious Field: From Religious Moderation to Authoritarian Salafism

Casting a Wide Net: Islamic Media in Central Asia under Atheism

What Lies ahead for Kyrgyzstan after the Presidential Elections?

The Islamic Mediascape in Central Asia

One Year of the Mirziyoyev Presidency: What Has Changed in Uzbekistan?

Russia’s Approaches to Afghanistan and its Implications for Central Asia

Sergey Abashin – Central Asian Migrants in Russia: Will there be a Religious Radicalization?

The Central Asia Security Workshop

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