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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T130000
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SUMMARY:Zuhra Halimova - Foreign Aid to Eurasia: Donors’ Agendas\, Local Perceptions\, and Lost Illusions
DESCRIPTION:Various donor agencies have become active players in defining and drafting strategies of transition from communist heritages and pasts to modern democratic societies and market economies\, as well as in funding the implementation of these strategies.   However\, after a quarter century of independence\, most of Eurasia’s political elites have transformed into more autocratic regimes\, with high level of corruption effectively undermining reforms\, democracy development agendas\, media freedoms\, access to information\, the independent judiciary\, and the rule of law. In her presentation\, Zuhra Halimova will discusses donors’ agendas and local perceptions of them\, while proposing different possible reassessments of what seems to have been predominantly a failure of foreign aid in many post-Soviet countries. \nZuhra Halimova is a visiting scholar at IERES. From 1997 to 2016\, she worked as the Executive Director of the Open Society Institute in Tajikistan.  A graduate of the Department of Oriental Studies at the Tajik State University and the School of Language\, Literature and Culture Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi\, India)\, she has served as a member of the International Harm Reduction Program Advisory Board and of OSF’s International Youth Program and Education Support Program Advisory Boards for several years.  She has also been a member of the Council of the Global Fund for Women and of the Asian Women in International Affairs Initiative for many years. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/zuhra-halimova-foreign-aid-to-eurasia-donors-agendas-local-perceptions-and-lost-illusions/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162412Z
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SUMMARY:Central Asia Fellows Seminar. Social\, Cultural and Spatial Inequalities in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm. Opening\nMarlene Laruelle (Director\, Central Asia Program)\n \n\n4:45pm. Presentations\n\nSavia Hasanova (Kyrgyzstan)\nIncome Inequality in Kyrgyzstan: The Redistributive Effect of Social Benefits\n\n \nBerikbol Dukeyev (Kazakhstan)\nEthnic Return Migration in Kazakhstan: Shifting Dynamics and Changing Perceptions\n\n \n\nSerik Jaxylykov (Kazakhstan)\nMigration Policy and Patterns in Kazakhstan: When the Southern People Meet the Northern Region\n \n5:30pm. Discussion\n \n\n6:00pm. Q&A\n \n6:30pm. Reception\n \n\n\nPlease RSVP.\n \n\n\n\n\nSavia Hasanova is an economic expert at the Public Association “The Investment Round Table” in Kyrgyzstan. She is also a project manager at the Public Association “Women’s Forum Kurak.” She has worked on different research projects related to human development\, particularly of vulnerable groups. Her recent experience involves drafting the UNDP report on human development and trade in Kyrgyzstan\, including issues of sustainable economic development. She holds an MS degree in economics and management science from Humboldt University in Berlin. During her fellowship\, Savia will study the effects of different types of social benefits on income inequality in Kyrgyzstan. The research will draw attention to rising income inequality in the country\, as well as assess the effectiveness of current social policy with respect to monetary inequality reduction. \n\n\nBerikbol Dukeyev is a Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy and International Security Department at the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies (KISI) under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He obtained an M.A. in Security and Politics at OSCE Academy in Bishkek and a B.A. with honors in Political Science at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Previously Berikbol worked at the Kazakhstan Center for Humanitarian and Political Trends in Almaty. He was a research fellow at the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan Public Policy Initiative in 2014.  His research areas are security issues in Central Asia\, postcolonial theory application in Central Asia and Kazakhstan nation building. During his fellowship\, Berikbol will explore the push and pull factors of the repatriation of ethnic Kazakhs from China\, particularly issues of socio-economic integration and changing public perception towards the repatriation program.\n  \n\nSerik Jaxylykov is a sociologist and works at a private research company in Almaty\, Kazakhstan. He earned his M.A. in Sociology from the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Most of his professional background lies in sociology in different areas including socio-economic\, socio-political studies (for the World Bank\, UNDP\, Oxford Policy Management\, and the European Training Foundation) and marketing research for private companies. He was a fellow at the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan Public Policy Initiative in 2015-16. During his fellowship\, Serik will research Kazakhstan’s internal migration issues\, and examine government’s policy aimed at smoothing out the difference between the overpopulated South and the shrinking population in the North.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-fellows-seminar-social-cultural-and-spatial-inequalities-in-kazakhstan-and-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170109T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170109T190000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
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SUMMARY:Murad Ismayilov - (Homogenising) Hybrid Intentionality and the Dialectics of Elite Attitudes to Islam: Towards a Re-Sacralisation of the Political Space in Azerbaijan
DESCRIPTION:Azerbaijan’s independence came after seven decades of militant atheism of the Soviet modernization project and emerged into staunch secularism of Western modernity\, two factors that\, on a par with the country’s precarious neighbourhood\, promised a sustained indigenous effort towards a desacralization of the country’s political space and the associated exclusion of religion from politics\, a modern blueprint that the Azerbaijani state and its society have stood united to diligently follow over the cause of the country’s independent existence.  Yet the specific dynamics facing the country in the third decade of independence and the changing contours of its international engagements have gradually been working to loosen up the latter formula and lay the groundwork for a quintessentially Azerbaijani pathway of statehood to follow\, one combining the nation’s historical embeddedness in an Islamic milieu with its century-old practical experience of modern policy making.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nMurad Ismayilov is a doctoral researcher at Politics\, Psychology\, Sociology and International Studies (PPSIS) at the University of Cambridge. He holds an MSt in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and an M.A. in International Relations from Baku State University (Azerbaijan). He has been awarded fellowships and research and visiting scholar grants from Open Society Institute Europe Foundation\, Aleksanteri Institute\, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)\, Michigan State University’s Center for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES)\, and NATO Studies Centre (Bucharest\, Romania). His research interests include political and social theory\, the politics of modernity\, postcolonial theory\, sociology and political economy of post-Soviet transformation\, social movements\, sociology and political economy of power\, sociology of class\, sociology of intellectuals\, sociology and security of the Middle East\, sociology and political economy of religion\, as well as Islamic theology and Islamic political thought.\n\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/murad-ismayilov-homogenising-hybrid-intentionality-and-the-dialectics-of-elite-attitudes-to-islam-towards-a-re-sacralisation-of-the-political-space-in-azerbaijan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T170000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
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SUMMARY:Michael Clarke - Beijing’s “March West”: One Belt\, One Road and China’s Quest for Great Power Status
DESCRIPTION:With Michael Clarke\, National Security College\, Australian National University \n\nMuch ink has been spilt over the past two decades debating the impact of the ‘rise’ of China on the international relations and strategic environment of Asia. Geographically\, the dominant focus within these debates has been on the Asia-Pacific geopolitical space. China’s increasing material power\, and consequently its growing strategic and economic footprint\, has however also been felt along its extensive Eurasian continental frontier. In fact China’s Eurasian frontiers have emerged as a major factor in Beijing’s foreign policy through President Xi Jinping’sOne Belt\, One Road (OBOR) strategy.\n \nThis paper argues that the OBOR is ultimately based on two core factors. First\, the OBOR can in part be seen as China’s response to the “pivot” or “rebalance” to Asia under U.S. President Barack Obama and to Russia’s relative decline in Central Asia. Second\, the OBOR is as much about Beijing’s domestic concerns as it is about its grand strategy priorities. Of major concern here is China’s hold on its major and often restive Eurasian frontier regions\, such as Xinjiang. While the relative decline of U.S. and Russian influence in Central Asia has provided Beijing with strategic opportunities to expand its reach\, the intensification of Uyghur opposition to ongoing Chinese rule since 2008 has underlined for Beijing the need to accelerate the economic development/modernization of these regions as the primary means of achieving their integration into the modern Chinese state. Geopolitics and domestic state-building imperatives are thus interwoven in Beijing’s Eurasian pivot.\n\n \nDr. Michael Clarke is Associate Professor and Graduate Convenor at the National Security College\, Crawford School of Public Policy\, ANU. He has written extensively on the history and politics of Xinjiang\, Uyghur separatism and terrorism\, and Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia in a variety of academic publications\, while his journalistic writing on these topics has been published by the Wall Street Journal\, CNN\, The National Interest and The Diplomat. He is also the author of Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia – A History (Routledge 2011)\, co-editor (with Anna Hayes) of Inside Xinjiang: Space\, Place and Power in China’s Muslim Far North-West (Routledge 2016)\, and co-editor (with Douglas Smith) of China’s Frontier Regions: Ethnicity\, Economic Integration and Foreign Relations (I. B. Tauris 2016). \n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/michael-clarke-beijings-march-west-one-belt-one-road-and-chinas-quest-for-great-power-status/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T140000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162351Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Weitz - Enhancing the Georgia-US Security Partnership
DESCRIPTION:For several decades\, Georgia has been one of the most important economic and security partners of the United States. The US is the largest bilateral aid donor to Georgia\, having provided several billion dollars since 1991. This support has always enjoyed bipartisan backing.  Since 2009\, Georgia and the United States have had a Strategic Partnership through which both parties pledge to further Georgia’s democratization\, economic development\, sovereignty\, and territorial integrity. Georgia is the highest per capita contributor to the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan. Despite Washington’s efforts\, however\, Georgia has not yet received membership in NATO and finds itself in a challenging neighborhood. The next U.S. presidential administration will need to move decisively to strengthen this critical partnership.\n\n  \nRichard Weitz is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute. His current research includes regional security developments relating to  Europe\,  Eurasia\, and East Asia as well as U.S. foreign and defense policies. Dr. Weitz is also an Expert at Wikistrat and a non-resident Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).\n  \nLight lunch to be served.  \n\nPlease RSVP.\n  \n\nIn partnership with\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/richard-weitz-enhancing-the-georgia-us-security-partnership/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
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SUMMARY:What Changes in a Post-Karimov Uzbekistan?
DESCRIPTION:2:15-3:45pmSession 1. Changes in the Uzbek domestic landscape\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU)\nBruce Pannier (RFE/RL)\nSofter on the Outside but Still Hard at the Core\nDillorom Abdulloeva (Tashabbus)\nWhat Changes are Needed and Expected in the Field of Human Rights and the Legal Sphere?\nRoger Kangas (NESA Center\, NDU)\nUzbek Foreign Policy After Karimov: Change or Continuity? \n3:45-4:00pm\nC0ffee break \n4:00-5:30pm\nSession 2. An evolving economic policy?\nChair: David Abramson (US Department of State)\nLawrence Markowitz (Rowan University)\nStructural Impediments to Economic Reform in Post-Karimov Uzbekistan\nAziz Khasanov (Eurasia Analytics)\nThe Uzbek Succession: Is Economic Transformation Possible?\nMurad Akhmedoff (Independent Scholar)\nUzbekistan’s Long-Awaited Economic Liberalization \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/what-changes-in-a-post-karimov-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160919T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160919T103000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193212Z
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SUMMARY:Yerlan Karin - Central Asian Fighters in Syria: Classification\, Factors\, Scale Assessment
DESCRIPTION:The war in Syria\, like a magnet\, pulled radicals from around the world\, including Central Asian fighters. There are different figures on the number of Central Asian militants in Syria. Separate research was conducted in Kazakhstan under the leadership of Dr. Yerlan Karin to estimate and organize all the data\, as well as determine the main factors of radicalization attracting young people from Central Asia to Syria. The research is comprised of several surveys of former combatants and is the first such study in the region.\n  \nYerlan Karin is Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan. He has been leading various analytical structures in Kazakhstan since 1998\, was a Director of the Center for Anti-Terror Programs in 2004-2006\, head of the Internal Policy Department in the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan in 2008; Secretary on Strategic Development in Nur Otan National Democratic Party from 2008 to 2013; and Visiting Professor at American University in Washington\, DC (USA)\, 2013-2014. He was appointed as Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan in October 2014. Yerlan Karin is a leading expert in Kazakhstan on security and terrorism and is the author of more than 100 publications in Kazakhstan and abroad on issues of terrorism\, national and regional security\, and history of Kazakhstan.\n  \nPlease RSVP.\nBreakfast to be served.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/yerlan-karin-central-asian-fighters-in-syria-classification-factors-scale-assessment/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160901T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160901T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162332Z
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SUMMARY:Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh - Book Launch for "A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity"
DESCRIPTION:By Kristian Berg Harpviken and Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh\n  \n\n\nWhat drives neighboring states to intervene in the Afghan conflict? This book challenges mainstream analyses which place Afghanistan at the center – the so-called ‘heart’ – of a large pan- Asian region whose fate is predicated on Afghan stability. Instead Harpviken and Tadjbakhsh situate Afghanistan on the margins of three regional security complexes – those of South Asia\, Central Asia\, and the Persian Gulf – each characterized by deep security rivalries\, which\, in turn\, informs their engagement in Afghanistan. Within Central Asia\, security cooperation is hampered by competition for regional supremacy and great power support\, a dynamic reflected in these states’ half-hearted role in Afghanistan. In the Persian Gulf\, Iran and Saudi Arabia fight for economic and political influence\, mirrored in their Afghan engagements; while long-standing Indo-Pakistani rivalries are perennially played out in Afghanistan. Based on a careful reading of the recent political and economic history of the region\, and of Great Power rivalry beyond it\, the authors explain why efforts to build a comprehensive Afghanistan-centric regional security order have failed\, and what might be done to reset inter-state relations.\n  \nShahrbanou Tadjbakhsh teaches at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)\, Paris\, and is Associate Researcher at PRIO. Order the book here.\n  \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/shahrbanou-tadjbakhsh-book-launch-for-a-rock-between-hard-places-afghanistan-as-an-arena-of-regional-insecurity/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T190000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162326Z
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SUMMARY:Nargis Kassenova & CAAFP Fellows - New Challenges in Central Asia. Changing Societies in a Time of Economic Crisis
DESCRIPTION:With Nargis Kassenova (KIMEP) \n \nand the Central Asia – Azerbaijan Program Fellows \n \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, GW) \n3:00pm. Nargis Kassenova (KIMEP)\nKazakhstan 2016: The Politics of Crisis \nDiscussion \n4:00pm  \nKassymkhan Kapparov (Kazakhstan)\nInvisible Public Debt: The Case of Kazakhstan \nSabina Insebayeva (Kazakhstan)\nA Quest For Status\, Legitimacy And Ontological Security: The Image-Conscious Kazakhstan \nDiscussion \n5:00pm.  \nArzu Geybullayeva (Azerbaijan)\nAzerbaijan’s Suspended Democracy – Time for International Reassessment \nGulzhigit Ermatov (Kyrgyzstan)\nUnderstanding Illiberal Sentiments among Youth in Kyrgyzstan \nDursunjemal Halimova (Turkmenistan)\nEconomic Smart Power: Utilizing the Untapped Asset of Turkmen Youth \nDiscussion \n6:30pm. Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/nargis-kassenova-caafp-fellows-new-challenges-in-central-asia-changing-societies-in-a-time-of-economic-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162304Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding Regime Legitimacy  in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:A round table organized by GW’s Central Asia Program and CRCEES\, University of Glasgow\n\n\n\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally Cummings\n(St Andrews)\n\n\nEdward Schatz\n(University of Toronto)\n\n\nLuca Anceschi\n(Glasgow University)\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrimonial\, patronal\, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics and conceptual lenses to delve into regional developments confirms that\, if anything\, Central Asian politics are profoundly complex. The regional conformation of power does however remain relatively stable. Regime durability\, in most cases\, is supported by the intricate connection of domestic patronal networks with international alliances. Sophisticated communication machines and successful nation-building tools have also sustained local élites and hamper political protests. For all intents and purposes\, a calculated combination of softer authoritarian strategies and more repressive governance methods has allowed the Central Asian leaders to reduce internal political processes and guarantee\, so far\, regimes’ monopolies. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/understanding-regime-legitimacy-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T160000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162316Z
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SUMMARY:Inside the Pyramid: Is Central Asia Authoritarianism Stable?
DESCRIPTION:Patrimonial\, patronal\, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics and conceptual lenses to delve into regional developments confirms that\, if anything\, Central Asian politics are profoundly complex. The regional conformation of power does however remain relatively stable. Regime durability\, in most cases\, is supported by the intricate connection of domestic patronal networks with international alliances; sophisticated propaganda machines have also sustained local élites in their drive to conceal disastrous socio-economic policies. For all intents and purposes\, a calculated combination of softer authoritarian strategies and more repressive governance methods has allowed the Central Asian leaders to reduce internal political processes and mechanisms to regimes’ monopolies. \n\nIncumbency continues to dominate politics in the region\, as confirmed by the long tenures of first-generation leaders in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan\, and of Emomali Rahmon in post-conflict Tajikistan. The outcome of the Turkmen transition in 2006-2007\, on the other hand\, suggested that the persistence of authoritarian governance is likely to survive eventual leadership changes. Ultimately\, it is a picture of apparent stability that informs how international observers have understood\, digested\, and framed the interconnection between power and politics in post-Soviet Central Asia. \n\nThese two workshops aim to challenge directly this characterization\, by discussing a specific set of factors\, processes\, and actors that are eroding – silently yet not insignificantly – the stability that is proverbially enshrined within Central Asia’s authoritarian governance. While the weak nature of Central Asia’s statehood has been appropriately questioned in current scholarly debate\, this workshop series intends to challenge the myth of Central Asia’s regime infrangibility. An accurately designed work of regime diagnostic does therefore sit at the analytical core of these workshops; succession prognosis does not\, except indirectly. \nView the full program.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/inside-the-pyramid-is-central-asia-authoritarianism-stable/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
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SUMMARY:Selbi Jumayeva - Feminist Organizing in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:During this discussion\, Selbi Jumayeva will share her experiences in the women’s rights activism\, feminist organizing and anti-violence campaigning in Kyrgyzstan and discuss gender and sexuality issues in Central Asia\, particularly in times of backlash and conservative reactionary politics.\n  \n\nSelbi Jumayeva is a visiting research fellow (WEF) at the International Gender Studies Centre at LMH\, University of Oxford. She is co-founder of Bishkek Feminists initiatives and member of LGBTIQA Organization Labrys in Kyrgyzstan. Selbi is also involved in Young Feminist Fund FRIDA and Global Fund for Women as an advisor\, and participates in Civil Society Advisory Group of UN Women ECARO. \nThis event is organized with the support of the Global Dialogues & Women’s Empowerment in Eurasian Contexts Fellowship Program(WEF) funded by Open Society Foundations and hosted by the International Gender Studies Centre at LMH\, University of Oxford. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/selbi-jumayeva-feminist-organizing-in-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160112T190000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193157Z
UID:17391-1452614400-1452625200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Studying Social Marginalization in Central Asia: Sixth Central Asia Fellows’ Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Opening Remarks\, Marlene Laruelle (Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU)\nAspects of Social Marginalization in Central Asia. Some Introductory Data \nSerik Bessembayev (Kazakhstan) \nViolent Extremism in Kazakhstan: The Fertile Soil of Gang Culture \nMalika Tukmadieva (Kazakhstan) \nThe Registration System (propiska) as a Tool for Discrimination \nXeniya Mironova (Tajikistan) \nThe Dysfunctionalities of the Housing Market in Dushanbe \nDilorom Bokikhodjaeva (Tajikistan) \nThe Marginalization of Rural Entrepreneur Women in Tajikistan \nPlease RSVP \n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/studying-social-marginalization-in-central-asia-sixth-central-asia-fellows-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151215T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151216T000000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194652Z
UID:17382-1450137600-1450224000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:GLASGOW - Inside the Pyramid: Is Central Asia authoritarianism stable?
DESCRIPTION:A Workshop Series organized byCRCEES [University of Glasgow] & CAP [George Washington University] \nView the full program here. \nPatrimonial\, patronal\, clientelistic: Central Asia’s authoritarian power is often classified in these terms. The proliferation of analytical rubrics and conceptual lenses to delve into regional developments confirms that\, if anything\, Central Asian politics is profoundly complex. The regional conformation of power does however remain relatively stable. Regime durability\, in most cases\, is supported by the intricate connexion of domestic patronal networks with international alliances; sophisticated propaganda machines have also sustained local élites in their drive to conceal disastrous socio-economic policies. To all intents and purposes\, a calculated combination of softer authoritarian strategies and more repressive governance methods has allowed the Central Asian leaders to reduce internal political processes and mechanisms to regimes’ monopolies.\n\nIncumbency continues to dominate politics in the region\, as confirmed by the long tenures of first-generation leaders in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan\, and of Emomali Rahmon in post-conflict Tajikistan. The outcome of the Turkmen transition in 2006-2007\, on the other hand\, suggested that the persistence of authoritarian governance is likely to survive eventual leadership changes. Ultimately\, it is a picture of apparent stability that informs how international observers have understood\, digested\, and framed the interconnection between power and politics in post-Soviet Central Asia.\n\nThese two workshops aim to challenge directly this characterisation\, by discussing a specific set of factors\, processes\, and actors that are eroding – silently yet not insignificantly – the stability that is proverbially enshrined within Central Asia’s authoritarian governance. While the weak nature of Central Asia’s statehood has been appropriately questioned in the current scholarly debate\, this workshop series intends to challenge the myth of Central Asia’s regime infrangibility.  An accurately designed work of regime diagnostic does therefore sit at the analytical core of these workshops; succession prognosis is not\, except indirectly.\n\nFour specific issues have been selected by the organisers to identify and discuss the key elements underpinning the stability of the regimes that rule Central Asia 25 years after the achievement of independence. Specifically:\n• The International Environment\n• Economics\n• Nation-building\n• Élite fragmentation\n\nThe first two facets will be discussed at the Glasgow workshop (December 2015)\, while the Washington DC seminar (April 2016) will in turn focus on the latter set of factors.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/glasgow-inside-the-pyramid-is-central-asia-authoritarianism-stable/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Conferences Abroad,Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194653Z
UID:17377-1447695000-1447700400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Political and Economic Trends in Kazakhstan: Risks\, Threats\, and Prospects
DESCRIPTION:For several years\, the Kazakhstani state has been actively expanding its participation in different spheres of public life\, and concentrating resources in the financial\, political\, and media sectors. Several so-called umbrella structures work together in a corporatist logic inside the state structure. This highly centralized political system is strongly personified and has effectively created stability for the elite. Well established political institutions could play the role of collective successors and would guarantee a stable transition and modernize the country; however\, they are still lacking and could weaken the Kazakhstani system.\n\nIn his presentation\, famous Kazakhstani analyst Dossym Satpaev will share his assessment of the current political and economic evolution in Kazakhstan.\n\nThis event is part of the CAP series “Central Asia Policy Assessment”\, generously funded by GW’s CIFF funds.\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/political-and-economic-trends-in-kazakhstan-risks-threats-and-prospects/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T173000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194653Z
UID:17381-1447344000-1447349400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Beyond Crimea: Russian Compatriot and Reimperialization Policies in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Based on the research of her forthcoming book Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire (Yale University Press\, February 2015)\, Dr. Grigas will discuss Moscow’s policies towards the Russian minorities and Russian speakers in the Central Asia and how they relate to Russia’s broader foreign policy aims to regain influence and possibly territories in the five countries of Kazakhstan\, Uzbekistan\, Turkmenistan\, Tajikistan\, and Kyrgyzstan.\nAgnia Grigas is an energy and political risk expert\, specializing in Russia\, Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space. She has written two books: “Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire”​ (Yale University Press\, forthcoming 2015) and “The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia” (Ashgate\, 2013). Currently she is working on her third book: The New Geopolitics of Gas (Harvard University Press\, scheduled for 2017). She is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Occidental College\, and is an official contributor to The Hill and a frequent media contributor (CNN\, Forbes\, Bloomberg\, Reuters).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/beyond-crimea-russian-compatriot-and-reimperialization-policies-in-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151006T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151006T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194653Z
UID:17374-1444149000-1444154400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Turkmenistan Today:  Regional Security and Domestic Outlook
DESCRIPTION:Muhammad Tahir\, Director of Turkmen Service at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty\n\n\nSince early 2015\, Taliban militants have significantly increased their activities in northern Afghanistan\, taking control of most of the villages along the borders with Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Already having conducted two cross border raids into Turkmenistan\, so far six Turkmen border guards have fallen victim to the Afghan-based militants. The recent influx of Central Asian militants in the Taliban controlled area of northern Afghanistan has raised alarm bells throughout the region\, including in Turkmenistan.\n\nSharing the longest border with Afghanistan among Central Asian countries\, Turkmenistan seems most vulnerable to any possible cross border aggression. As a result\, in recent months Ashgabat is taking unseen protection measures\, including fencing the entire border.\nTurkmen authorities have taken a series of new measures\, both to keep potential dissent in control\, and to calm the people in the face of new economic challenges.\n\nJoin us for a discussion with Muhammad Tahir\, Director of Turkmen Service at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty\, on the regional security and domestic outlook for Turkmenistan.\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/turkmenistan-today-regional-security-and-domestic-outlook/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150903T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150903T190000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194653Z
UID:17366-1441299600-1441306800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kyrgyzstan-US Relationship: After the Cooperation Treaty\, and before the Parliamentary Elections
DESCRIPTION:Kyrgyzstan’s decision to cancel a cooperation treaty with the United States after tensions over the US awarding a human rights prize to jailed dissident\, Azimjon Askarov\, contributed to deteriorating US-Kyrgyz bilateral relations. Although the strategic value of Kyrgyzstan for the US diminished with the closure of the Manas transit center and Bishkek’s joining the Eurasian Economic Union\, the country remains a showcase of US development aid to the region. Kyrgyzstan continues to be the most democratic country of Central Asia and is preparing for lively legislative elections in October.\nJoin us for a roundtable with US experts on Kyrgyzstan to discuss this double context and the future of US-Kyrgyz relations. Roundtable participants include Erica Marat (National Defense University)\, Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University)\, and Sean Roberts (George Washington University). \nPart of the CAP series “Central Asia Policy Assessment”\, generously funded by GW’s CIFF funds. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kyrgyzstan-us-relationship-after-the-cooperation-treaty-and-before-the-parliamentary-elections/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150526T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150526T190000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17339-1432656000-1432666800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Fifth Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]4:00pm Opening Remarks\nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \n4:15pm Farrukh Irnazarov (Uzbekistan)\nLabor Migrant Households in Uzbekistan: Remittances as a Challenge or Blessing?\n \nDiscussant:  Seyed Reza Yousefi (Development Prospects Group (DECPG)\, World Bank) \n5:15 Nazik Muradova (Turkmenistan)\nRevisiting Turkmenistan’s Energy Exports. Path Toward a Greater Diversity of Foreign Partners\n \nDiscussant: Steve LeVine (Washington Correspondent\, Quartz)\n6:15 Reception[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nMr. Farrukh Irnazarov is a Country Director at the Central Asian Development Institute\, Tashkent\, Uzbekistan. He is also completing his PhD in Institutional Economics at the University of Groningen\, Netherlands. In 2014\, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University\, Washington\, DC\, USA. He is in charge of several research projects on economic development\, labour migration\, regional trade and transport issues in Central Asia. Mr. Irnazarov holds a BA in International Economic Relations from the National University of Uzbekistan\, Tashkent (2002)\, a Master of Social Science in International and European Relations from Linköping University\, Sweden (2005)\, a Master of Science in Business Administration and Economics from Stockholm University\, Sweden (2006). \nNazik Muradova holds Master’s degree from the University of St. Andrews Middle East\, Caucasus and Central Asian Security Studies program and Bachelor’s from American University of Central Asia International and Comparative Politics Department. Nazik’s academic interests lay in the sphere of regional security and humanitarian law. Her professional experience in the sphere of project design\, monitoring and evaluation with Mercy Corps and international NGO\, combined with passion to information analysis honed at West Sands Advisory LLP resulted in implementation of the think tank start up in Central Asia in 2014. At GWU CAP Nazik works on energy security prospects in Central Asia. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_blank” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/fellows5″ el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-fifth-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150518T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150518T173000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194244Z
UID:17338-1431939600-1431970200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Turkmenistan: Domestic Evolution\, Economic Development\, and Regional Environment
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]9:00am Introductory Remarks\nMarlene Laruelle (CAP\, IERES\, GWU) \n9:15am Session I. Governance Changes in Turkmenistan \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (CAP\, IERES\, GWU) \nMyles Smith (IREX)\nForget political will – Would good governance even be possible in Turkmenistan? \nChris Miller (USAID)\nGovernance Challenges and Opportunities in Turkmenistan \nDiscussion \n​​10:45-11:15pm Coffee-break \n11:15-12:45pm Session II. Economic Development\, Progress and Challenges\n \nChair: Victoria Clement (Naval Postgraduate School\, Monterey\, CA) \nTheresa Sabonis-Helf (National Defense University)\nCasting a Wider Net: Turkmenistan and Regional Electricity \nJan Šír (Charles University\, Prague)\nGoing Private? Denationalization and Privatization in Turkmenistan under Berdymukhammedov \nKenyon Weaver (Dentons LLP)\nThe Transformation of Commercial Law under President Berdymuhamedov. \n12:45-1:30pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00pm Session III. Turkmenistan in its Regional Environment \nChair: Myles Smith (IREX) \nNazik Muradova (Central Asia Fellow\, GWU)\nRevisiting Turkmenistan’s energy exports. Path toward a greater diversity of foreign partners? \nSlavomir Horák (Charles University\, Prague)\nTurkmenistan-Uzbekistan. From personal approach to ordinary authoritarian regimes relations? \nSebastien Peyrouse (Central Asia Program\, GWU)\nTurkmenistan-Afghanistan: Political Pragmatism\, Security Tensions? \n​​3:00-3:15pm Coffee-break \n3:15-4:45pm Session IV. Historical and Social Transformations \nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (Central Asia Program\, GWU) \nVictoria Clement (Naval Postgraduate School\, Monterey\, CA)\nIntrepid Reformers: Turkmen Jadids \nAynabat Yaylymova (Turkmenistan Health Initiative)\nReproductive Health: How do I say this in Turkmen? \nJahan Taganova (Syracuse University)\n​Image of Turkmen Girls Online​[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_blank” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/turkmen” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/turkmenistan-domestic-evolution-economic-development-and-regional-environment/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150126T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150126T140000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T161846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17180-1422270000-1422280800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Fourth Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6643″ border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]11:00am Opening Remarks\nMarlene Laruelle (Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU) and Chantal De Jonge Oudraat (Women in International Security\, WIIS) \n11:15am Natalia Zakharchenko (Kyrgyzstan)  \nQuotes on Quotas: Political Representation of Women in Kyrgyzstan \nDiscussant: Christina Fink (George Washington University) \n11:45 Marina Kayumova (Uzbekistan) \nEmigration of “Crème de la crème” in Uzbekistan. Long-term consequences from a gender perspective \nDiscussant: Daina Eglitis (George Washington University) \n12:15pm Rashid Gabdulhakov (Uzbekistan) \nTerritorial enclaves of the Ferghana Valley: Do good fences make good neighbors? \nDiscussant: David Abramson (State Department) \n12:45 Discussion \n13:30 Lunch[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nRashid Gabdulhakov (Uzbekistan) is a Political Science instructor at the International University of Central Asia in the Kyrgyz Republic. Rashid has received his BA in International Relations from Whitworth University in Spokane\, Washington state\, USA. After graduation\, he returned to Uzbekistan and worked with UN Volunteers in Tashkent.  In 2012\, Rashid went on to receive his Masters Degree in Politics and Security from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. During his studies at the OSCE Academy he continued working with various UN agencies and conducted research on geographical enclaves in post-Soviet Central Asia. \nNatalia Zakharchenko (Kyrgyzstan)  is an alumni of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan\, 2012.  She is currently working as an analyst for the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. Previously\, Natalia worked as a Junior Professional Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic and completed her research fellowship at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She has several publications on migration in Kyrgyzstan and water management in Central Asia. At the moment\, Natalia is involved into the research on gender quotas and its impact on women’s political empowerment in Kyrgyzstan. During her stay in DC Natalia will work on “Globalizing the Gender Quota? Women in Power in Central Asia.” \nMarina Kayumova (Uzbekistan) has considerable international work experience\, during which she was exposed to a variety of projects within public and private sectors. Her previous assignments include work in GSM Association\, European Parliament and Patent Office. She has also worked as a strategy consultant for SMEs. Marina holds MPhil degree in Innovation\, Strategy and Organisation from the University of Cambridge and BA from the University of Westminster. She also received Masters in International Relations from the European Institute\, where she explored EU-Russia and Central Asia relations in the domain of energy cooperation. During her stay in DC Marina will work on “Brain Drain of ‘Creme de la Creme’ in Uzbekistan: Long-term consequences.” \n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/seminar4″ el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-fourth-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150117T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17293-1421508600-1421514000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Eurasia's Future and the role of the United States
DESCRIPTION:Join us to honor the memory of author and scholar Alexandros Petersen (1984-2014)\, killed in Kabul on January 17.\nWith \n\nMargarita Assenova (Jamestown Foundation)\,\nStephen J.Blank (American Foreign Policy Council)\,\nSamuel Charap (International Institute for Strategic Studies)\,\nAriel Cohen (Heritage Foundation)\, and\nMatthew Rojansky (Kennan Institute)\n\nOn January 17\, 2014\, an attack on a restaurant was launched in Kabul\, murdering 21 people.Among them was Dr. Alexandros Petersen\, a specialist on the Caucasus and Central Asia.Dr. Petersen held a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and authored The WorldIsland: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West (Praeger: 2011).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/eurasias-future-and-the-role-of-the-united-states/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150112T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T161843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17175-1421060400-1421082000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Assessing the Capabilities of Central Asian Armies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n11:00-12:30pm Panel I. Roundtable. Assessing Security Threats to Central Asia \nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, GWU) \nClark Adams (Department of Defense)\nAlexander Cooley (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\nRoger Kangas (Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies\, National Defense University)\nMarlene Laruelle (IERES\, GWU)\nScott Smith (United States Institute of Peace) \n12:30-1:30pm Lunch \n1:30-3:00pm Panel II. Assessing Military Capabilities of the Central Asian States \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, GWU) \nZhulduz Baizakova (Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar\, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies\, National Defense University)\nMilitary reform in Kazakhstan: its perspectives and current trends \nVitali Gelfgat (US Army)\nUzbekistan’s military capabilities \nErica Marat (Assistant Professor\, College of International Security Affairs\, National Defense University)\nPredatory policing in Central Asia \nSebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, GWU\, and East West Institute)\nKazakhstan’s industrial-military complex and foreign cooperation \n3:00-3:30pm Coffee break \n3:30-5:00pm Panel III. Assessing External Assistance to Central Asia \nAlexander Cooley (Barnard College\, Columbia University) \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, GWU) and Stephen Blank (American Foreign Policy Council)\nRussia’s military cooperation with Central Asia \nRichard Weitz (Hudson Institute)\nThe Security Role of the SCO\, CSTO\, and China in Central Asia \nDmitry Gorenburg (CNA Corporation/Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University)\nUS and European military assistance to Central Asia \nIn partnership with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)\, United Kingdom.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/CAAC” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/assessing-the-capabilities-of-central-asian-armies/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141202T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T161828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17159-1417537800-1417543200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Enclaves in the post-Communist Central Asia: Do good fences make good neighbors?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Rashid Gabdulhakov\, Visiting Fellow\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\nThe collapse of a state as large and diverse as the USSR inevitably led to disputes over natural and industrial resources\, but also over borders. In the Ferghana Valley\, divided between Uzbekistan\, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan\, several territorial units are located in other states. They are referred to as ‘enclaves’. This presentation will provide an overview of the Ferghana Valley’s main enclaves\, and look at various factors such as: territory\, population\, resources\, legal aspects\, as well as their economic characteristics. It will discuss the ways in which political authorities manage their relationship to these enclaves and the role they play in bilateral relations and local everyday life.[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Gabdulhakov” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/enclaves-in-the-post-communist-central-asia-do-good-fences-make-good-neighbors/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T161841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
UID:17174-1417449600-1417455000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Police in Afghanistan: Continuing the Mission and Defining the Future
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Major General Masood Ahmad Azizi\, MoI Deputy Minister for Strategy and Policy \n\nPolice are the long-term security solution to targeting the enablers of insurgency and criminals\nSecuring the public’s trust by the police is essential to defeating insurgents\nSecuring and retaining the public’s trust requires continued police professionalization\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_button title=”Please RSVP” target=”_self” color=”btn-warning” icon=”none” size=”btn-large” href=”http://go.gwu.edu/Azizi” el_class=”align-center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/police-in-afghanistan-continuing-the-mission-and-defining-the-future/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T161833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
UID:17164-1416328200-1416333600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Between Co-operation and Insulation: Afghanistan’s Relations with the Central Asian Republics
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]with Dr. Christian Bleuer\, Afghanistan Analysts Network \nChristian Bleuer will give a presentation based on recent field research and his Afghanistan Analysts Network report “Between Co-operation and Insulation: Afghanistan’s Relations with the Central Asian Republics.” The main focus will be on the real and imagined trans-national security threats in this region that cross the Afghan border in both directions. He will analyse the past and present cross-border relations\, including trade\, refugees\, insurgency\, terrorism and cultural ties with an emphasis on how these phenomena affect stability in the region. \nDr. Christian Bleuer is a 2012 PhD graduate of the Australian National University. He has spent the last three years in Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan and Afghanistan researching security and governance with a focus on the connections between Afghanistan and the Central Asian states. Most recently he was worked for the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia in Dushanbe. Currently he works at the Afghanistan Analysts Network\, based in Kabul. His full list of publications can be downloaded at ChristianBleuer.com. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/between-co-operation-and-insulation-afghanistans-relations-with-the-central-asian-republics/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140624T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140624T190000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162159Z
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SUMMARY:The Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Reassessing the Water/Energy Nexus in Central Asia\nThe Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar\n\nJune 24\, 2014\, 4:30-7pm\nLindner Commons\, 6th Floor\nGeorge Washington University\n1957 E Street\, NW\, Washington DC\n\nThe Central Asia Program and SIPRI North America have the pleasure to invite you to the Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar. \n4:30 pm. Welcome\n– Chantal de Jonge Oudraat\, Executive Director\, SIPRI-North America \n4.40 pm. Introductory remarks\nThe Water/Energy Nexus in Central Asia Do we ask the right questions?\n– Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program\, GWU \n4.50 pm. Speakers:\nShifting from Regional Water Approach to National Solutions. The Case of Uzbekistan\n– Nariya Khasanova\, Central Asia Fellow (Uzbekistan)\nHow Local Rural Governments can respond to Energy Shortages in Tajikistan\n– Said Yakhyoev Central Asia Fellow (Tajikistan) \nDiscussion \n6:00 pm. Reception \nCentral Asia Fellows\n \nSaid Yakhyoev holds master’s degrees in Political Science from OSCE Academy and in International Peacebuilding from the University of Notre Dame. Said’s interest and experience are in good governance in the extractive industries and its linkages to conflict. He has worked at a non-profit Bank Information Center in Washington\, D.C. where he promoted transparency and sustainable policies of the international financial institutions investing in extractive industries. He works at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan promoting development policies and cross-border trade. During his fellowship he studied the ways Tajik rural administrations could answer their energy needs based on the example of the Rasht Valley. \n \nNariya Khasanova graduated from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent\, where she studied International Economic Relations. She has undergone two internships at the UN (UNDP Office in Uzbekistan; UNDP Bratislava Regional Center). She has also been working on an Asian Development Bank Project in Uzbekistan. Her interest in development\, peace\, and conflict studies led her to the UN Mandated University for Peace\, where she obtained her master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Governance and Peace. During her fellowship she studied deconstructed the Rogun issue by demonstrating the need to shift to national solutions in terms of water use. \nThe Central Asia Fellowship Program\nCentral Asia has a chronic and acute lack of public policy experts and the opportunities for young professionals to hone their analytical skills are few and far between. The lack of a robust pool of public policy experts\, compounded by the entrenched ideological divide existing between civil society and academia\, has had a detrimental effect on the transparency and vigor of policy debate in Central Asia. \nThe CAP-SIPRI North America Central Asia Fellowship Program is intended for young professionals—scholars\, government officials\, policy experts\, human rights and democracy activists—who want to enhance their research and analytical skills and seek to become public policy leaders in their respective countries. More generally\, the fellowship program seeks to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and build lasting intellectual networks between the Central Asian and the US scholarly and policy communities.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-third-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T163000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
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SUMMARY:Myth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model: Changing notions of marginality in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:with Anita Sengupta\, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies\, Kolkata\, India  \nThe Turkish Model or the Turkish Developmental Alternative was promoted in the Central Asian Republics immediately following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Model emphasised the ideal of a ”secular\, democratic\, liberal society”as a model for the post- Soviet Turkic world and in the process encouraged a”Turkic” rhetoric that emphasized connection between the two regions based on acommon ancestry. While Turkey was presented as ‘’the’’ model of development fora vast region there was also the emergence of a critique of this ‘’modern’’ model from within the state itself particularly in terms of how the Turkish state continued to exclude certain groups from its definition of who constitutes its “relevant’’citizen. Gezi Park and subsequent events within Turkey have brought into questionthe democratic credentials of the state. This presentation questions the myth andrhetoric of a model that emerges in the face of transitions and recedes asalternatives emerge from within.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/myth-and-rhetoric-of-the-turkish-model-changing-notions-of-marginality-in-turkey/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194110Z
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SUMMARY:Post-2014 Afghanistan: The US Military Exit and Political Stability
DESCRIPTION:With Dr. Timor Sharan  \nThis talk will provide an Afghan perspective of what U.S. military withdrawal will mean for political stability and state survival post-2014. The 2001 international intervention\, created a ‘network state’ whereby state and political networks became partners in state building. This has produced a state that is underpinned by informal power structures. A successful international military exit from Afghanistan will depend on the stability of these informal networks in addition to the strength of Afghan National Security Forces and reconciliation with the Taliban. This talk will also address the recent presidential election in Afghanistan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/post-2014-afghanistan-the-us-military-exit-and-political-stability/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140423T173000
DTSTAMP:20260922T135921
CREATED:20200930T162118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
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SUMMARY:Turkmenistan: Evolutions and Permanence
DESCRIPTION:with \nLuca  Anceschi\, University of Glasgow\nMyles Smyth\, IREX\nSebastien Peyrouse\, The George Washington University\n\nThis roundtable explores the evolution of Berdymukhamedov’s Turkmenistan. The second president reoriented few aspects of the country’s previous policy\, and the long-awaited shifts in domestic and foreign policy have remained limited.Today\, Turkmenistan faces steep challenges\, among them rebuilding the education and health systems\, and managing public expectations of standard of living. To what extent does today’s regime differ from the preceding dictatorship in terms of domestic policy? Has the country’s selective ‘neutrality’ brought Turkmenistan an efficient way to deal with its regional environment? How are the post-Niayzovelites sharing resources and redistributing them?
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/turkmenistan-evolutions-and-permanence/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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