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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T161841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194157Z
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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:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T161833Z
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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:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194109Z
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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:20260924T100350
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:20260924T100350
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:20260924T100350
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140416T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
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SUMMARY:Security Challenges and Scenarios for Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:with Erlan Karin\, Visiting Professor\, American University\n\nErlan Karin will discuss the diverse security challenges\, both external and internal\, that the Central Asian countries currently face. He will explore the presidential successions\, possible scenarios\, and present four different prospects for Central Asia\, its stability and its interaction within the wider region.Dr. Erlan Karin leads the Council of Direction for the Center for Security Program in Kazakhstan. Prior to that he was Chair of the Presidential Administration’s Department ofInternal Policy (2008)\, and Secretary of the Nur-Otan Party (2013). He has directed several analytical centers such as the Central Asian Agency for Political Research and theInternational Institute of Contemporary Policies. He works on security issues\, terrorism\, the\nrole of security services and questions of political succession.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/security-challenges-and-scenarios-for-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140325T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
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SUMMARY:Are US strategic interests in Azerbaijan at risk?
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Farhad Aliyev\, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute \nThe current US policy of disengagement from Southern Eurasia may have  a negative impact upon the US strategic interests in the region in the long-run\, with Azerbaijan becoming more vulnerable to falling under Russia’s influence and having to manage a difficult relationship to Iran. Moreover\, domestic evolutions are on their way: roll back in democratization and the influence of changes in values among the youth\, especially under the influence of Turkey’s internal changes\, may make the US position in the country more difficult.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/are-us-strategic-interests-in-azerbaijan-at-risk/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140321T110000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194011Z
UID:17296-1395392400-1395399600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:International Water Day
DESCRIPTION:With\n\n Marlene Laruelle\, Central Asia Program\, George Washington University\n\nJulia Collins\, Women and Water Project\n\nMarcus King\, George Washington University\n\nBarbara Miller\, Global Gender Program\, George Washington University\n\nAmanda Klasing\, Human Rights Watch\n\nRebecca Fishman\, WASH Advocates\n\nKara Gerson\, Voss Foundation\n\nIn 1993\, the United Nations declared March 22nd as the official “World Day for Water”\,with the aim to raise awareness and focus attention on sustainably managing thisimportant resource. This year World Water Day focuses on the interplay of Energy andWater. In honor of this day\, the State Department-funded Women and Water Project atGW’s Elliott School\, along with WASH Advocates\, invite you to a roundtable breakfastevent to discuss energy and water challenges and share knowledge on improvingmanagement and governance through enhanced participation of women and socialinclusion.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/international-water-day/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T140000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:Bottom-up Secularism in the Top-down States of Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:with John Schoeberlein\, Nazarbayev University \nThe resurgence of religion in the post-Soviet space has been accompanied by heightened appeals to secularism as a social and political order.  Most research on secularism in Eurasian contexts —and indeed\, in general — has focused on the top-down institutional construction of the secular order. Furthermore\, scholarship on post-Soviet societies tends often to present social construction as a largely top-down process; this being a legacy of the Soviet context where a state with high ambitions for penetrating and transforming society was at the center of most analysis of social process. John Schoeberlein will explore the ways in which bottom-up processes shape the formation of secularism in post-communist states. Drawing on an ethnographic perspective from field research in Central Asia and the Caucasus\, he will make an argument that what might be called “secular sensibilities” of people who inhabit all levels of the social process are a crucial factor in shaping the ways that religion has assumed a new role in social and political processes.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/bottom-up-secularism-in-the-top-down-states-of-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140224T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140225T000000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:The Second Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Security Workshop to celebrate the two year anniversary of the CentralAsia Program. We will discuss the current state of affairs in Central Asia and offer a fresh look at the main policy issues\, including the future of the US Silk Road Strategy in the wake of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the stakes of forthcoming presidential successions in Uzbekistan andKazakhstan. The Workshop will also explore what the Program considers as key societal and political issues that will shape the future of Central Asia\, i.e. the small and medium business circles. For its anniversary the Program is launching a new web initiative\, the Uzbekistan Initiative\,which will be presented first at this Workshop. The country’s history and culture\, its geographic allocation at the heart of Central Asia\, and its booming demography and economic potential shape the overall picture of the region and its strategic weight. However\, Uzbekistan has increasingly become a kind of ‘black hole’ in terms of scholarly and policy-oriented analysis. The goal of this Initiative is to create an apolitical platform of discussion for knowledge exchanges that promote Uzbekistan beyond the divergences in assessing its current course.\n—\n\n8:30               Breakfast and Registration \n9:00               Introductory Remarks by Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program \n9:15-10:45   Session I. Lessons Learned and Unlearned for the US Silk Road Strategy \nChair and Moderator: Peter Rollberg (George Washington University) \nAlexander Diener (The University of Kansas) \nMobilities and Immobilities in Central Eurasia: A Geographical Perspective on the New Silk Road \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \n“Silk Road”: Historical Metaphor\, Ideology\, Wishful Thinking? \nGael Raballand (Choiseul Institute) and Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University) \nAn Economic Assessment of the Potentialities of the US Silk Road \n10:45-11:15 Coffee-break \n11:15-12:45 Session II. Presidential successions. Real and False Stakes \nChair and Moderator: Cory Welt (George Washington University) \nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University) \nGoodbye Karimov\, Hello Status Quo \nSean Roberts (George Washington University) \nNur-Otan as a Vehicle for Presidential Succession: Turkey’s CHP or Russia’s Yedinaya Rossiya?” \nMyles Smith (Media Sustainability Index at IREX) \nThe Stakes of Successions: Turkmenistan and Elite Redistribution \n12.45-1:30   Lunch \n1:30-3:00     Session III. Peeking behind the Iron Curtain: Uzbekistan in 2014 and Beyond \nChair and Moderator: David Abramson (State Department) \nRoundtable Discussion: \nLaura Adams (Harvard University)\, Sarah Kendzior (Al-Jazeera English services)\, Lawrence Markowitz (Rowan University)\, and Noah Tucker (Managing Editor\, Registan.net) \n3:15-3:45     Coffee-break \n3:45-5:15     Session IV. The Missing Piece: Small and Medium Business Circles \nChair and Moderator: Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \nGul Berna Özcan (University of London) \nThe Political and Moral Economy of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Central Asia \nRegine Spector (University of Massachusetts) \nMade in Kyrgyzstan: The Reassembling of Apparel Manufacturing in a    Peripheral State \nAlexander Libman (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) \nThe Small and Medium-sized Enterprises world in Kazakhstan and the Implications of the Customs Union \n\n—\n\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-second-central-asia-security-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T161905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:Addressing Soft Security Challenges in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Kazakhstan has already taken the regional leadership on soft security issues in the whole Central Asian region. This conference will discuss the region’s main soft security issues: water management\, regulating migrations and refugees flows\, developing disaster preparedness and reaction to climate change. It will bring together scholars and experts to offer a full panorama of the soft security situation and the way Kazakhstan can address these challenges. \n9:00 AM Opening\, Yerkin Akhinzhanov\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Embassy of Kazakhstan \n9:15-10:15 AM Keynote speaker: Johannes Linn (Brookings Institution)\nQ&A \n10:15 – 11:15 AM The Water/Energy Nexus and its Regional Dimension\nChair: Kamiljon Akramov (International Food Policy Research Institute) \nKathleen Kuehnast (US Institute of Peace)\nWhose rules rule? Water and Energy in Central Asia \nKai Wegerich (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)\nWater security in the Syr Darya \n11:15 – 11:30 PM Coffee-break\n\n11:30 – 12:30 PM Natural Disaster and Climate Change Preparedness \nChair: Kai Wegerich (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) \nWilliam Brown (Brookings Institution)\nImplications of Climate Change for Kazakhstan \nReinhard Bodemeyer (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit GIZ)\nLocal coping strategies – the neglected option in tackling climate change in Central Asia \n12:30 – 1:15 PM Lunch  \n1:15 – 2:15 PM Strategies and Challenges of ensuring Food Security in Central Asia \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU) \nKamiljon Akramov (International Food Policy Research Institute)\nAgricultural transformation and food security challenges in Central Asia \nSebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, George Washington University)\nFood policy in Kazakhstan: domestic stakes\, regional consequences \n2:15 – 2:30 PM Coffee-break \n2:30 – 3:30 PM Kazakhstan as a Eurasian Crossroads. Managing MigrationChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (GWU) \nDejan Kedserovic (International Organization for Migration)\nMigration and Development Nexus Case in Kazakhstan \nMarlene Laruelle (IERES\, George Washington University)\nKazakhstan as a Migration Pole: Regional Opportunities\, Domestic Challenges \n3:30 – 4:30 PM Reception \nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW gratefully funded by the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington D.C.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/addressing-soft-security-challenges-in-kazakhstan-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131216T193000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162049Z
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SUMMARY:The Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program and SIPRI North America have the pleasure to invite you to the Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar. The seminar will be followed by a reception.\n\nWith\n\nSardar Bagishbekov\, Central Asia Fellow (Kyrgyzstan)\nEnsuring Freedom from State Violence in the Kyrgyz Republic\nYevgeniya Pak\, Central Asia Fellow (Uzbekistan)\nExit Visa Regime in Uzbekistan: Regime Interests versus Freedom of Individuals\n\nDiscussants:\nErica Marat\, Visiting Scholar\, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\nEric Lohr\, Director of Initiative for Russian Culture\, American University
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-second-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T161936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
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SUMMARY:Foreign Policy Doctrine and the Actions of Uzbekistan
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Farkhod Tolipov\, Director of the Non-Governmental Education and Research Institution“Bilim Karvoni”\n\nThe Republic of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy has undergone dramatic fluctuations since gaining independence\, from a pro-American extreme to a pro-Russian one and back again. Such a “pendulum” swing of the newly independent Central Asian state reflects its two ambivalent and interrelated stances: Tashkent’s perception of the international system as an old stage of power politics – somewhat a Soviet syndrome – and an uncertain geopolitical situation that emerged in Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The operation in Afghanistan further confused the doctrinal foundation of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy\,revealing the lack of Tashkent’s strategic perspective. As a result\, Uzbekistan took rather isolationist tactics in the region instead of a long-awaited pro-active strategy.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/foreign-policy-doctrine-and-the-actions-of-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T153000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17263-1384419600-1384443000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Central Asia\, Iran\, and the Nuclear Landscape in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies’ Rising Powers Initiative\n\n9:00 – 9:30 AM Registration and Breakfast\n\n9:30 – 9:45 AM Welcoming Remarks by Douglas Shaw\, Associate Dean for Planning\, Research and External Relations\, GWU\n\n9:45 – 11:15 AM Panel I. Asia’s Changing Nuclear Landscape\n\nChair: Douglas Shaw\, Associate Dean for Planning\, Research andExternal Relations\, GWU\n\nJapan’s Nuclear Tremors: Domestic Debates about Energy & Security after 3/\nMike Mochizuki\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nChina’s Nuclear Priorities–Implications for Iran and Central Asia\nRobert Sutter\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nIndia’s Evolving Nuclear Discourse and Search for Policy Coherence\nDeepa Ollapally\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\n11:15 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break\n\n11:30 – 1:00PM Panel II. The Iranian Question and its Regional Environment\n\nChair: Cory Welt\, Ponars Eurasia\, IERES\, GWU\n\nIran’s Nuclear Ambitions:  US and Israeli Threat Perceptions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanne Nolan\, Elliott School of International Affairs\, GWU\n\nPartners or Rivals? Contextualizing the Russian-Iranian Nuclear Relationship\nJeff Mankoff\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)\nCentral Asia’s Viewpoint on being in Iran’s Vicinity\nMarlene Laruelle\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU\n\n1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch\n\n2:00 – 3:30 PM Panel III. Central Asia’s Nuclear Strategies and Challenges\n\nChair: Deepa Ollapally\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nManaging Radioactive Waste in Central Asia: Successes and Challenges\nDauren Aben\, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies\, Almaty\n\nKazakhstan in the Global Nuclear Order: Carving Out a Role That Matters\nTogzhan Kassenova\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\nNuclear Domestic Debates in Kazakhstan: Public Opinion and Expert Controversies\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU\n\n3:30 PM Wrap–up\n\nThe Sigur Center gratefully acknowledges the support of the John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation for this conference.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-iran-and-the-nuclear-landscape-in-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17318-1383220800-1383226200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections
DESCRIPTION:Moderator\nMarlene Laruelle\, George Washington University\nPanelists\nEric McGlinchey\, George Mason University\nAzita Ranjbar\, The Pennsylvania State University\nVladimir Fedorenko\, Rethink Institute\nPresidential elections will be held in Tajikistan on November 6\, 2013. Despite large control by the authorities over the political landscape\, secular andIslamic opposition were able to unify behind a common figure from the human rights sector. Our roundtable will go beyond the strictly electoral event to discuss the main drivers of political and social changes in Tajikistan\,especially the role of Islam in the public space\, questions of social justice\, and migrations\, to offer a more accurate picture of this key Central Asian state.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/lunch-roundtable-tajik-presidential-elections/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T134500
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17290-1382013000-1382017500@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Beyond Pakistan: New Delhi's Policy Toward Afghanistan and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Rising Powers Initiative \nwith Jean-Luc Racine\, Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow\,School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences\, Paris\n\nDr. Jean-Luc Racine is Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow\, working at the Centre for South AsianStudies\, at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris. He is also theDirector of the Science Policy at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme\, and Vice-President of the Paris-based think tank Asia Centre (www.centreasia.eu). His research is focused onthree correlated issues: the dynamics of transformation of contemporary India; India’s foreignand security policies and its attempts at reshaping the new world order; and geopolitics of SouthAsia\, particularly its most sensitive issues: Pakistan strategic paradigm\, India-Pakistan relations andKashmir.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/beyond-pakistan-new-delhis-policy-toward-afghanistan-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17300-1379001600-1379007000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Looking Ahead: US-Central Eurasia Security Relations
DESCRIPTION:Join the Central Asia Program\, the Center for International Policy\, and leading Eurasia analysts for a discussion on the current status of US-Central Eurasia security relations to mark the launch of theSecurity Assistance Monitor\, an online resource of the United States’ defense and security relationships around the world.  The Security Assistance Monitor is a new\, comprehensive online resource that provides information and answers questions about the US security and defense relationships around the world.  Formerly known as Just the Facts\, a project which focused on US security assistance to Latin America\, the Security Assistance Monitor is an expanded resource of searchable statistics\, data\, upcoming events\,and related information on US security and defense priorities for Central Eurasia\, the Middle East\,and Africa. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/looking-ahead-us-central-eurasia-security-relations/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130828T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130828T190000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17288-1377705600-1377716400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Inaugural Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:4:00 pm. Registration\n\n4.15pm. Welcome Chantal de Jonge Oudraat\, Executive Director\, SIPRI-North America\n \n4:30-6:00 pm. Fellows Presentations and Discussion:\n\nAitolkyn Kourmanova\, Central Asia Fellow (Kazakhstan)\nRegional Cooperation in Central Asia: Nurturing from the Ground\n\nSafovudin Jaborov\, Central Asia Fellow (Tajikistan)\nRadicalization of Youth in Tajikistan: Causes\, Consequences\, and Addressing the Challenges\n\nDiscussants:\nRoss Wilson\, Director\, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center\, Atlantic Council \nSanaam Naraghi-Anderlini Co-Founder of International Civil Society Action Network(ICAN)\, and Senior Fellow\, MIT Center for International Studies\nChair: Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\n\n6:00 pm. Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-inaugural-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130502T050000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17264-1367416800-1367470800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Afghanistan after 2014
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Kennan Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ South Asia Center.\nSpotlight on Central Eurasia Speaker Series  \nThis event explores local and regional perspectives on the future of Afghanistan against the backdrop of the planned United States withdrawal of military forces from the region. The first session focuses on local politics and governance in Afghanistan\, and the second session investigates the ways in which Afghanistan’s neighbors have been discussing and planning for the upcoming changes.                                                                                                                           \n2:00-3:15 pm       Views from Within Afghanistan \nNoah Coburn (Bennington College)\, “Elections and the Hazards of Transition: Voting and Local Governance in Afghanistan” author of Bazaar Politics: Pottery and Power in an Afghan Market Town (2011) \n3:15-3:30 pm       Coffee Break \n3:30-5:00 pm       Views from Afghanistan’s Neighbors \nSimbal Khan (Institute of Strategic Studies\, Islamabad\, Pakistan and Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow)\, “Pakistan’s Strategy on Afghanistan: Between Dodging Bullets and Moderating Outcomes” \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University)\, “A “regional solution” for Afghanistan? Perspectives from Afghanistan’s Northern Neighbors” \nCo-sponsors:  \nGeorge Washington University’s Central Asia Program \nWilson Center’s South Asia Program \nThe Spotlight on Central Eurasia Speaker Series\, hosted by the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute\, aims to inform Washington\, DC-based scholars and practitioners of the latest research on a range of topics and from a variety of disciplines impacting the future of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/afghanistan-after-2014/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130416T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130416T183000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17323-1366125300-1366137000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:American and European Policies in Central Asia: Similarities and Divergence
DESCRIPTION:Panel 1: Debating Similarities and Divergences in European and American Policies Toward Central Asia (3:15-4:45)\nJos Boonstra\, Senior Researcher\, Head of EUCAM programme\, FRIDE\, Brussels\nAlexander Cooley\, Tow Professor\, Barnard College\, New York \nJeff Goldstein\, Senior policy analyst for Eurasia\, Open Society Foundations\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Research Professor\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\n \nPanel 2: European and American Policy Priorities in Central Asia(5:00-6:30)\nPatricia Flor\, EU Special Representative for Central Asia\, European External Action Service\nLynne Tracy\, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs\n\nThe seminar aims to build on the existing dialogue among experts and policy-makers from the two sides of the Atlantic\, with the goal of finding pragmatic policy solutions and converging the objectives of the two actors in the region. While there is a general consensus that the objectives ofEurope and the U.S in Central Asia are similar\, the methodologies in perusing those objectives differ. What are the priorities of the two actors in the run up to 2014 and beyond in the view of the value-based approach versus security constraints linked to the 2014 draw-down from Afghanistan. More information can be found at http://go.gwu.edu/EUUS.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/american-and-european-policies-in-central-asia-similarities-and-divergence/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130325T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130326T120000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193834Z
UID:17324-1364201100-1364299200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:NATO members are exiting from Afghanistan at different speeds\, dictated by pressures from their domestic public opinions. This withdrawal has re-launched debates on the security of the Central Asian region. In the years to come\, the post-2014 changes in the regional landscape will intersect with domestic evolutions including changes in political leadership\, in demographics\, and the end of the Soviet legacy. GW’s Central Asia Program seeks to participate in the policy debate on Central Asia by providing current research on the different sources of potential insecurity in the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, MARCH 25\, 2013 (8.45 am – 4 pm)\n8.45 am. Registration9 am. Opening Remarks\n9.15-11 am. CENTRAL ASIA IN THE AFGHAN NEIGHBORHOOD: DO WE GET IT RIGHT?\n\nChair: Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (SIPRI-North America) and Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)\nDeconstructing the ‘Spillover’ Narrative\nScott Radnitz (University of Washington)\nAfghan Spillover Oversell: The Greater Danger of Self-Inflicted Harm in Central Asia\nGeorges Gavrilis (Hollings Center for International Dialogue)\nThe Closing of Central Asia’s Borders\nSebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University)\nDrug-Trafficking: Identifying the Real Challenges\n11-11.30 am. Coffee break\n\n11.30-1.15 pm. INTERNATIONAL LAW\, GOVERNANCE\, AND REGULATORY DILEMMAS\n\nChair: Scott Radnitz (University of Washington) and Sean Roberts (George Washington University)\nDilemmas of Democratization: The Problems of Transitioning from Authoritarian Rule in Kyrgyzstan andImplications for other Countries in the Region\nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University)\nMy Property\, your Courts: The International Litigation of Contested Central Asian Assets\nErica Marat (American University)\nRegulating Private Security Companies in Central Asia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Harfst (UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS)\nEffective resolution of water related issues as a crucial factor for security in Central Asia\n\n1.15-2.15 pm. Lunch\n\n2.15-4 pm. THE CURSE OF STABILITY IN CENTRAL ASIA?\n\nChair: David Abramson (State Department)Sarah Kendzior (Al Jazeera English)\nThe Crisis of Consistency in Uzbekistan\nGael Raballand (Institute Choiseul\, Paris)\nRedistribution of oil revenues in Kazakhstan: excessive expectations from the population?\nNate Schenkkan (Freedom House)\nKyrgyzstan: When Consolidation Fails\nZohra Ismail Beben (College of William and Mary)\nStatecraft in Tajikistan: A blunt instrument for a fine task?\n\nTUESDAY\, MARCH 26\, 2013 (9.30-11.30 am)\n9.30-11.30 am. ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA: RELIGION\, POLITICS\, MILITANCY AND NEW MEDIA\n\nNoah Tucker (Registan.net)  \nIslamic “revival” in Central Asia: Social trend or political threat?  \nNathan Barrick (Strategic consultant\, CLI Solutions)\nGeostrategic factors in the Islamist militant threat to central Asia\nAzizullah Ghazi (Independent Scholar)\nActivities of Central Asian Islamic militant organizations on the internet and social media\n\n11.30-12 pm. Wrap up
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-central-asia-security-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130305T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130305T140000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T161952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193834Z
UID:17236-1362486600-1362492000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Understanding Conflict and Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:with Neil Melvin\, Director of Program Armed Conflict and Conflict Management\, SIPRI \nOver the last two decades\, Kyrgyzstan has experienced two major outbreaks of violence involving the main ethnic communities in the country: the Kyrgyz and the Uzbeks. These violent incidentshave generally been viewed as ethnic conflicts and much of the response to the violence from thegovernment\, local communities\, and the international community has been framed within thisunderstanding. At the same time\, Kyrgyzstan has also experienced other\, less significant violent events and political crises that have often been linked temporally to the “ethnic conflicts”. This suggests that a full understanding of the nature of armed conflict in Kyrgyzstan and the involvement of ethnic communities in violence at a minimum requires a broader examination of the context of the violence. Neil Melvin is director of Program Armed Conflict and Conflict Management at the StockholmInternational Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)\, and has also worked at a variety of leading policy institutes in Europe. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/understanding-conflict-and-ethnic-violence-in-kyrgyzstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193834Z
UID:17317-1354813200-1354818600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Central Asia's Struggle with Religion
DESCRIPTION:with Catherine Cosman\, Senior Policy Analyst- U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom         \nCentral Asian governments use state-controlled Islam to build national identity\, but also fear Islam’s influence and understand that Islam has greater mobilization potential than any other institution in their societies.  In the early 1990’s\, there was fairly free access to various religious influences and the popularity of Islam and other religions increased rapidly. Today\, however\, Central Asian religion laws include: severe restrictions on religious education; strict limits or bans on children attending religious services; censorship and limits on religious literature; severe limits and controls on places of worship; bans on unregistered religious activity; restrictions on foreign influence\, and difficult registration regulations.  Central Asian governments also attempt to control religion via government-controlled structures\, including religious affairs committees and state-controlled religious bodies.Central Asian states have also have adopted wide-ranging policies to combat extremism\, particularly the prosecution of alleged members of officially banned groups rather than proven involvement in violent acts.\n \nCatherine Cosman is senior policy analyst at the U.S. Commission on International ReligiousFreedom. Her areas of responsibility include the countries of the former Soviet Union\, East andCentral Europe\, and Western Europe.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asias-struggle-with-religion/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121102T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121102T140000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193834Z
UID:17315-1351859400-1351864800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Extractive Politics\, Trust Deficit & Uncertainty in Afghanistan and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:with Nazif Shahrani\, Professor\, Indiana University-Bloomington \nIn the framework of the SSRC Eurasian Program’s Workshop “Crossing Boundaries: Merging Eurasian Insights with the Study of Afghanistan” the Central Asia Program is proud to host Nazif Sharhani\, Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Anthropology at Indiana University-Bloomington.\n  \nIn his presentation Professor Sharhani will discuss the following key questions: What are the most persistent challenges facing Afghanistan and Central Asian republics to over come economic stagnation\, increasing poverty\, inequality\, oppression\, radicalism\, and terrorism\, dependency on outside powers and looming instability and uncertainty in the region? How will the US & NATO withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan in 2014 affect political stability in the region? What are the prospects for averting further uncertainty and instability within the region any time soon?
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/extractive-politics-trust-deficit-uncertainty-in-afghanistan-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121105T000000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193835Z
UID:17286-1351728000-1352073600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Merging Eurasian Insights with the Study of Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:THE EURASIA PROGRAM of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies atGeorge Washington University are pleased to announce a field development workshop\, to be held on the GWU campus November 1-4\, 2012.\nELIGIBILITY\nApplicants must be US citizens or permanent residents and currently either within five years of the completionof their dissertation\, enrolled in an accredited PhD program\, or enrolled in an area studies MA program.Applicants should have an identified and developed research project that relates to the theme and focus of theworkshop. Preference will be given to those developing their dissertation.\nFull instructions on how to apply can be found on the program’s website: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/eurasia-program/crossing-boundaries-merging-eurasian-insights-with-the-study-of-afghanistan/ \nApplication materials should be submitted electronically to the SSRC Eurasia Program at eurasia@ssrc.org by5:00 p.m. EDT on October 1\, 2012.  Travel costs\, workshop meals\, and accommodation for participants will becovered by the SSRC. Should you have any questions\, please contact the Eurasia Program (eurasia@ssrc.org).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/merging-eurasian-insights-with-the-study-of-afghanistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121016T123000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193835Z
UID:17313-1350381600-1350390600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Islam and Politics in Tajikistan: An Insider’s View
DESCRIPTION:with Muhiddin Kabiri\, Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan \nMuhiddin Kabiri\, Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan\, will discuss the current situation in Tajikistan including the preparation for the presidential elections in 2013\, the new restrictive laws on religion\, the difficulties faced by the Islamic Renaissance Party\, and the tensions in the Gorno-Badakhshan region since last July.\nMarlene Laruelle\, Director of the Central Asia Program\, will moderate.\n\nA light lunch will be served and time will be given for a Q&A session and interaction with the public.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/islam-and-politics-in-tajikistan-an-insiders-view/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120925T173000
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193835Z
UID:17310-1348588800-1348594200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Debating “Patronal Politics in Central Asia:” A Demokratizatsiya Special Issue 
DESCRIPTION:with \nSlovomir Horak\, Charles University \nMarlène Laruelle\, IERES\n\nErica Marat\, American University\n\nLawrence Markowitz\, Rowan University\n\nand Sébastien Peyrouse\, IERES\n\nThe Fall 2012 issue of IERES’ Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization examines the role of patronal politics in Central Asia. An introductory essay about the concepts of neopatrimonialism and patronal presidentialism lays out the theoretical background for the issue.Five country-study articles then describe the dynamics of each society\, while also discussing the different aspects that comprise patronal regimes in the region. At this presentation\, four of the contributors will discuss their articles and the current situation in Central Asia. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/debating-patronal-politics-in-central-asia-a-demokratizatsiya-special-issue/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120921T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120921T171500
DTSTAMP:20260924T100350
CREATED:20200930T162042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193835Z
UID:17283-1348243200-1348247700@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kyrgyzstan in Its Regional Context
DESCRIPTION:with Asylbek Jeenbekov\, Speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan\, The Jogorku Kengesh \nThe George Washington University’s International Development Studies Program and Central AsiaProgram are proud to host Asylbek Jeenbekov\, Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament\, to discuss security and development issues in Kyrgyzstan and in the Central Asian region.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kyrgyzstan-in-its-regional-context/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120621T170000
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SUMMARY:Iranian Religious Presence in the Republic of Azerbaijan: Roots\, Forms and Security Implications
DESCRIPTION:with Fuad Aliyev \nFulbright Scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute\, School of Advanced International Studies\, Johns Hopkins University\nIranian religious influence in Azerbaijan has recently become a ‘hot’ topic. However\, there is little insiderknowledge\, or data-based analysis of the situation on the ground. Is Iran indeed capable of usingreligious activists as its fifth column in the Republic of Azerbaijan? How are Iran-backed groupsorganized and funded? What are Iran’s real threats to various Azerbaijani strategic projects?\n\nAzerbaijan has been the subject of Iranian political interests and religious influence since the first days ofits independence. Due to the contemporary interpretations of the Shi’a principles and the way it isintertwined with the political system of post-revolutionary Iran\, the relationship between the twocountries is indeed a matter of concern for Azerbaijan.\nAlthough the Azerbaijani government has always feared Iran’s possible aspirations and capacities toinfluence its domestic affairs using the Shi’a believers as the key channel through which to exert pressure\,Iranian official and semi-official organizations have been allowed to spread their version of Islamthroughout Azerbaijan. However\, recent developments\, public statements\, “spy” and “terror” plots\, massprotests\, arrests in both countries\, and the revival of tensions around the Iranian nuclear weaponsprogram show that the previously set lines in the relations between two countries have been crossed.Understanding the roots\, forms and security implications of Iranian religious influence in Azerbaijan mayprove to be helpful in forecasting possible outcomes of this relationship.\nFuad Aliyev is a Fulbright Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced InternationalStudies’ Central Asia – Caucasus Institute. Dr. Aliyev has a Master of Arts degree in Political Sciencefrom the Central European University (Budapest\, Hungary) and PhD in Economics from AzerbaijanState Economic University. Dr. Aliyev previously worked as Department Head at the FinancialMonitoring Service under the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He authored severalpublications on Islamic economics and finance\, and Islamic activism in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/iranian-religious-presence-in-the-republic-of-azerbaijan-roots-forms-and-security-implications/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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