Russian Policy Toward Central Asia: Tools for Integration and Arguments for Security Involvement
Alexey Malashenko, Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Center, Moscow and Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations Russia is trying to preserve its influence in Central Asia, and for a few years has actively promoted integrative…
Game Over? Shifting Energy Geopolitics in Central Asia
with Michael Denison, Research Director, Control Risks Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Central Asia’s geopolitical salience, from inside and outside the region, has been predicated both on its oil and gas export…
Diversification of an Energy-Producing Economy Agricultural Policy in Kazakhstan
with Richard Pomfret, Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide, AustraliaKazakhstan has used energy revenues to save for the future, invest in human capital, and diversify the structure of production with the goal of…
Book Launch: Globalizing Central Asia-Geopolitics and Challenges of Economic Development
Part of IERES’s Book Launch Series Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor of International Affairs, GWU Sebastien Peyrouse, Research Professor of International Affairs, GWU and Discussant: Johannes Linn Former World Bank Vice President for Europe…
Legal Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment in the Gold Mining Sector of the Kyrgyz Republic: Towards a Path to Sustainable Environmental Development
with Begaiym Esenkulova, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan Begaiym Esenkulova is an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Central Asia,Kyrgyzstan, an S.J.D. candidate at the Central European University, Hungary,…
The Family Business: Turkmenistan Economy Starts to Look Like its Neighbors
with Myles Smith, Senior Program Officer and Assistant Managing Editor for the Media, Sustainability Index at IREX Turkmenistan's business sector has evolved during the short reign of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. What was once the province…
Environment, Human Rights and Oil Development in Turkmenistan
with Kate Watters, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Crude AccountabilityKate Watters will discuss the links between environmental and human rights violations and oil and gas development in Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most opaque…
Diversified Development: Making the Most of Natural Resources in Eurasia
with, Ivailo Izvorski, The World Bank Economic development discussions in Eurasia often become debates about diversification. For aregion that is resource-rich, this is to be expected. Eurasian economies have in many ways become less…
The Transition Economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Old Habits, New Approaches
with Farrukh Irnazarov, Visiting Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University and Roman Vakulchuk, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway This presentation assesses the market transition path…
Hydrocarbons, Governance and Social Accountability in Russia and Central Asia
1:00-2:00pm Keynote Speaker Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos (French Institute of Geopolitics, University Paris 8, France) Oil and Social Accountability in Russia 2:00-3:30pm Session 1. Hydrocarbons and Governance in Eurasia Sergei…
Central Asia and the Eurasian Economic Union: The Global Picture and Country Perspectives
In cooperation with the Harriman Institute and the US-Kazakhstan Business Association Opening Remarks: Marlene Laruelle (IERES, George Washington University) 9:30-11:00am Session I. Roundtable Martha Brill Olcott (Michigan State University) Sarah Freese (US-Kazakhstan…
Kazakhstan’s Accession to the WTO, Central Asia and the Eurasian Economic Union
In July 2015, Kazakhstan finalized its accession to the World Trade Organization after 19 years of negotiations, and intends to ratify the accession package by the end of October. With…
Mining Firms and Local Communities in Central Asia
Chair: Sean Roberts (George Washington University) Zhanyl Moldalieva (United Nations University—Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology) (Re)thinking Transparency and Accountability in Natural Resource Governance: The Case of Kyrgyzstan’s…
