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SUMMARY:Central Asia at the Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Connectivity\, Critical Minerals\, and the Future of Regional Sovereignty \n\n\n\nCentral Asia is undergoing its most significant strategic realignment since independence. The five post-Soviet republics — Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan\, Turkmenistan\, and Uzbekistan — are increasingly behaving as a coordinated bloc\, signing mutual trade targets\, harmonizing border arrangements\, and engaging external partners through the C5+1 format and its emerging variants. At the same time\, the region sits at the heart of three intersecting global pressures: the competition for critical minerals\, the redrawing of Eurasian trade corridors\, and the security spillovers from a permanently unstable Afghan-Pakistani frontier. \n\n\n\nThis panel brings together leading practitioners and scholars from the New Lines Institute\, the World Bank\, and Nightingale International for a focused conversation on what Central Asia’s next decade requires — from regional governments\, from the United States\, and from international partners. The discussion will examine the New Lines Institute’s “Silk Seven Plus” (S7+) framework\, the durability of recent C5+1 commitments\, the structural barriers to intra-regional trade\, and the climate\, water\, and security risks that could derail integration if unaddressed. \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. The event is open to in-person attendees on the 6th floor of the New Lines Institute and to a virtual audience via livestream. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nModerator: Dr. Dania Arayssi is a Senior Analyst at the Central Asia Center of the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy\, where her work focuses on regional political economy\, governance\, and U.S. policy toward Greater Central Asia. She also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and teaches Comparative Political Economy at George Washington University. Her recent co-authored work has examined how regional frameworks such as S7+ can anchor Central Asia’s economic sovereignty while addressing shared challenges in water\, energy\, and trade infrastructure. \n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\nDr. Azeem Ibrahim\, OBE is the Chief Strategy Officer at the New Lines Institute and the principal architect of the institute’s Silk Seven Plus (S7+) framework — a diplomatic initiative that envisions Central Asia\, together with Afghanistan and Azerbaijan\, as a connected economic bloc capable of asserting regional sovereignty against coercive dependence on China and Russia. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute and a columnist at Foreign Policy. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and has held fellowships at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Yale. \n\n\n\nSobir Kurbanov is an international development professional with over two decades of experience advancing economic governance\, institutional reform\, and regional cooperation across Central Asia and Eurasia. His technical expertise spans macroeconomic management\, public sector governance\, digital development\, trade and private-sector development\, and policy evaluation\, complemented by a strong record in program design\, results-based management\, and donor coordination.Sobir has held senior roles with the World Bank Group\, the UK Department for International Development (DFID)\, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)\, and the Swiss Cooperation Office\, where he helped design and implement complex\, multi-country programs on governance\, including digital and ICT\, competitiveness\, and regional integration. His work has informed key World Bank and donor strategies and contributed to landmark initiatives such as Digital CASA and the B5+/C5+1 regional economic cooperation platform. He has authored and contributed to numerous publications and policy studies on Central Asia’s political economy\, trade\, and regional integration\, including works published by the CAREC Institute\, CIPE\, and the George Washington University Central Asia Program. His research has explored macro-economic reforms\, external financing\, labor migration\, cross-border value chains\, and the evolving role of the private sector in transition economies. Most recently\, Sobir has been supporting the World Bank’s Central Asia Jobs and Green Economic Transformation study\, leading stakeholder consultations\, private sector engagement\, and validation processes across the region. In parallel\, he has contributed to analytical work on returning migrants and labor market dynamics in Central Asia\, including rapid assessments linking migration\, jobs\, and social resilience in fragile and high-risk areas.Sobir holds an MSc in Economic Management and Policy from the University of Strathclyde (UK) and has taught courses on industrial policy and public policy reforms at the OSCE Academy and George Washington University\, blending academic rigor with extensive field-based policy experience. \n\n\n\nDr. Muneeza Mehmood Alam is a Senior Infrastructure Economist at the World Bank\, with extensive experience across the Europe and Central Asia\, Middle East and North Africa\, and South Asia regions. She joined the World Bank in 2015 and has since worked at the intersection of transport economics\, policy reform\, and operations\, helping countries translate analytics into impactful investments and reforms. Her work spans economic corridors and regional connectivity\, railways and logistics\, inclusive urban mobility\, gender-responsive transport\, and low‑carbon transport transitions. She has co-led major lending operations—including large-scale railway and economic corridor programs—and has played a central role in shaping national transport strategies\, regulatory reforms\, and cross-border connectivity agendas. A consistent theme of her work is understanding how transport investments can more effectively support jobs\, productivity\, and inclusion. Muneeza is also an active contributor to the World Bank’s global knowledge agenda. She has led and authored flagship analytical and research outputs on regional railways\, transport corridors\, and gender and mobility\, and regularly engages in multi-partner initiatives and cross-practice collaboration to advance integrated development solutions. Before joining the World Bank\, she worked in economic consulting in Washington\, DC. She holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University. \n\n\n\nJustin Burke is a veteran journalist with more than 35 years of experience and the founder of Eurasianet\, an independent news outlet covering the former Soviet Union and broader Eurasia region. He began his career as a CBS News intern during the 1980 political conventions\, then worked for NBC News and TBS before joining the Associated Press in 1987 as a general news reporter in Detroit. From 1990 to 1993\, he served as the Christian Science Monitor’s Moscow correspondent\, covering the collapse of communism and the early warlord period in Afghanistan\, and later headed the Monitor’s Germany bureau\, where he reported on the EU and NATO’s post-Soviet evolution. After a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (1995–96)\, Burke joined the Open Society Institute in New York\, where he launched Eurasianet in 1999. He served as managing editor until late 2017 and now holds the role of publisher and executive director. In 2016\, Eurasianet became an independent organization hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute\, and the site earned a Webby nomination the following year. Also in 2017\, Burke joined Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs as a lecturer focused on communications. He holds a BA in Soviet Studies from Boston University and has authored academic work on Russian internal migration and Ukrainian state-building.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-at-the-crossroads/
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SUMMARY:Addressing Central Asia’s Water Crisis: Challenges and Pathways to Regional Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:Central Asia faces a critical challenge in managing its shared water resources\, with major rivers like the Amu Darya and Syr Darya crossing multiple national borders. As population growth\, urbanization\, and industrial expansion heighten the demand for water\, competition over limited resources intensifies\, especially in countries such as Uzbekistan\, Kazakhstan\, and Turkmenistan\, where agriculture heavily relies on irrigation. Climate change exacerbates these pressures\, underscoring the urgent need for regional cooperation and sustainable water management strategies.  \n\n\n\nThis panel discussion will explore the complexities of water resource management in Central Asia\, emphasizing the importance of diplomacy and coordinated efforts to prevent conflicts and ensure equitable access. It will aim to identify both natural and human-induced factors driving water scarcity\, such as inefficient agricultural practices\, population growth\, and climate change. Panelists will evaluate current water management strategies across Central Asian countries and discuss potential long-term solutions that balance industrial needs\, environmental preservation\, and population demands. The discussion will seek to generate actionable recommendations and foster collaborative efforts toward sustainable water use and conservation in the region. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nYerzhan Ashikbayev has been the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United States since April 2021. He is a lead communicator on the Enhanced Strategic Partnership Dialogue with the United States. \n\n\n\nDr. Suriya Turaeva is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Economics at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Uzbekistan specializing in environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources and holds a PhD in chemistry. \n\n\n\nGulnara Baikushikova\, PhD\, is the Head of the Department of International Relations and World Economy at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty. \n\n\n\nElira Turdubaeva has a PhD in media and communications. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar in the School of Communication at the University of Miami conducting research for the project\, “Social Media’s Role in Civic Engagement in Central Asia: Pilot Study of Kyrgyzstan.” \n\n\n\nMODERATOR: \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. \n\n\n\n\nJOIN ZOOM SESSION
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/addressing-central-asias-water-crisis-challenges-and-pathways-to-regional-cooperation-2/
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SUMMARY:Armenia and France: Strengthening Ties Amid Regional Tensions?
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter losing two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh\, Armenia is seeking new allies in Western Europe. Disillusionment with Moscow’s inaction during the 2023 blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh and recent conflicts has driven Armenia to reconsider its foreign alliances. Armenia’s growing partnership with France\, marked by French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné’s recent visit and enhanced military cooperation\, has sparked tensions with both Azerbaijan and Russia. Meanwhile\, questions arise over Azerbaijan’s strategic goals\, including its energy exports to Europe and its support for New Caledonia\, against the backdrop of Armenia’s Western pivot. \n\n\n\nThis seminar will address the pressing issues facing the South Caucasus\, Armenia\, and Azerbaijan today. Key questions include: Is France prepared to replace Russia as the peace guarantor for Armenia and Azerbaijan? What drives Azerbaijan’s support for the people of New Caledonia? How would Azerbaijan react if France supplied Armenia with modern weaponry and technology? What steps can France take to foster peace and stability in the region\, especially given the prevailing speculation that Russia is primarily interested in maintaining its military presence in the South Caucasus?” \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nMarie Dumoulin is the director of the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining ECFR\, she worked as a French career diplomat. She held a number of positions in French diplomatic missions abroad\, including in Turkmenistan\, Algeria\, and Germany\, and was seconded to the German Foreign Ministry during the German OSCE chairmanship. She has worked with the policy planning staff (CAPS) and headed the Russia and Eastern Europe Department of the French Foreign Ministry. She has extensive experience with settlement processes for protracted conflicts in Europe’s Eastern neighborhood. She holds a PhD from the Paris Institute for Political Science (Sciences Po). \n\n\n\nAhmad Alili is a researcher in international public policy and regional security of the South Caucasus\, the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries\, and neighboring regional powers. He is part of several peacebuilding initiatives supported by the EU\, UN\, and NATO’s Partnership for Peace Consortium. Currently\, he is the director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre (CPAC)\, a Baku-based independent think tank promoting regional integration in the South Caucasus. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration on the role of nonstate actors in regional security\, geopolitics\, public management\, and good governance. \n\n\n\nAlexander Iskandaryan is a prominent expert on politics\, nationalism\, and the contemporary history of Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eurasia. He is a political scientist and the Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia. He has authored numerous works on these topics\, presented papers\, and has spoken at many conferences. \n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nMikail Mamedov holds a PhD in History from Georgetown University\, where he is also a Lecturer in History and the Liberal Studies Program of the School of Continuing Studies. His multiethnic Azeri-Armenian family arrived in the US back in 1996\, in the wake of the outbreak of the Karabakh conflict. He holds an MA from The George Washington University and a Diploma in History from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has authored numerous articles on the history of the Caucasus\, and on contemporary literature and the Karabakh conflict. \n\n\n\n\nZoom link
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/armenia-and-france-strengthening-ties-amid-regional-tensions/
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SUMMARY:From Tradition to Digital: Exploring Media and Communication Dynamicsin Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Location: Voesar Conference Room\, 1957 E St NW Washington DC\, 4th floor Suite 412 \n\n\n\nEvent type: Hybrid  \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar will explore insights from the edited volume Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: An Anthology of Emerging and Contemporary Issues – 9781793633484 (rowman.com). It examines the evolving media environments of Central Asia\, focusing on the intersections of traditional and digital media within political\, social\, and cultural contexts. It brings together diverse perspectives from across the region to address contemporary challenges\, such as the role of media in political activism\, the influence of digital platforms on civic engagement\, and the transformation of communication practices amid globalization. \n\n\n\nElira Turdubaeva\, one of the volume’s editors and the featured speaker\, will share findings from the latest research\, including her own work on social media and civic engagement in Kyrgyzstan. She will highlight key themes from the volume and provide an in-depth look at the current media landscape in Central Asia. \n\n\n\n\nJoin Zoom\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKER \n\n\n\nDr. Elira Turdubaeva has a PhD degree in Media and Communications from Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University. She worked at several universities\, including a prior appointment as Department Head of Journalism and Mass Communications at American University of Central Asia. She is also a founder of a new start-up Online University in Kyrgyzstan and Association of Communicators of Kyrgyzstan. Currently she is a Head of Journalism and Mass Communications Program at International Ala-Too University in Kyrgyzstan. Her research focuses on media and AI\, media uses\, AI in education\, political participation and media\, election campaign analysis\, protests and social media\, social media uses\, network analysis\, new media studies\, ICT and youth\, propaganda analysis\, representations of gender\, journalism education\, media and migration\, media and activism\, surveillance technologies and privacy in Central Asia\, hate speech and social media\, media and conflicts in Central Asia\, etc. Currently she is a Fulbright Scholar at School of Communication at University of Miami conducting research on “Social Media’s Role in Civic Engagement in Central Asia: Pilot Study of Kyrgyzstan” \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/from-tradition-to-digital-exploring-media-and-communication-dynamicsin-central-asia/
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SUMMARY:Kazakh and Uzbek Biweekly Language Lunches
DESCRIPTION:If you’re looking to learn or improve your Kazakh or Uzbek language skills\, or simply want to learn more about Central Asian countries\, join us for casual biweekly lunches. These gatherings provide an opportunity to practice language skills and engage in conversations about the culture and heritage of Central Asia. \n\n\n\nLocation: Graduate Student Lounge\, 6th Floor\, 1957 E St.\, NW\, Washington\, DC \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakh-and-uzbek-biweekly-language-lunches/
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SUMMARY:New Books in Asian Studies: Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Room 602\, 6th floor1957 E St NWWashington\, DC 20052 \n\n\n\nJoin the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Central Asia Program for a talk with the editors of the new volume Uyghur Identity and Culture. Uyghur Identity and Culture brings together the work of scholars\, activists\, and native Uyghurs to explore the history and growing challenges that the Uyghur diaspora face across the globe in response to shifting government policies forbidding many forms of cultural expression in their homeland. \n\n\n\nThe collection examines how and why the Uyghur diaspora\, dispersed from their homeland to communities across Australia\, Central Asia\, Europe\, Japan\, Türkiye\, and North America\, now has the responsibility to preserve their language and cultural traditions so that these can be shared with future generations. The book critically investigates the government censorship of Uyghur literatures and Western media coverage of the Uyghurs\, while centralizing real reflections of those who grew up in the Uyghur homeland. It considers the geographical and psychological pressures that the Uyghur diaspora endure and highlights the resilience and creativity of their relentless battle against cultural erosion. \n\n\n\nUyghur Identity and Culture is a key contribution to diaspora literature and calls to attention the urgent need for global action on the ongoing human rights violations against the Uyghur people. It is essential reading for those interested in the history and struggles of the Uyghur diaspora as well as anyone studying sociology\, race\, migration\, culture\, and human rights studies. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nRebecca Clothey is Professor and Head of Drexel University’s Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages. Her current research on maintenance and transmission of Uyghur culture spans several countries\, including China\, the United States\, and Türkiye. She was a visiting scholar at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul in 2018-2019 and at Xinjiang Normal University in 2014. Dr. Clothey has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships for her research\, one to China and one to Uzbekistan\, a Spencer Fellowship to study community-based schools in Argentina\, and an NEH-ARIT Fellowship to study cultural transmission among the Uyghur diaspora in Türkiye. \n\n\n\nDilmurat Mahmut obtained a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from McGill University. He is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University and a course lecturer at McGill University\, Canada. His research interests include Muslim identity\, education\, violent extremism\, and immigrant/refugee integration in the West. His publications include “Conflicting Perceptions of Education in Canada: The Perspectives of Well-educated Muslim Uyghur Immigrants” in Diaspora\, Indigenous and Minority Education\, 2021; “Lost in Translation: Exploring Uyghur Identity in Canada\,” in Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education\, 2021 (with Waite); “Revisiting Muslim Identity and Islamophobia”\, 2018 (book chapter). \n\n\n\nMODERATOR: \n\n\n\nEric Schluessel is a social historian of China and Central Asia\, and his work focuses on Xinjiang (East Turkestan) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center\, and an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs. Land of Strangers\, his first monograph\, uses local archival and manuscript sources in Chinese and Chaghatay Turkic to explore the ramifications of a project undertaken in the last decades of the Qing empire to transform Xinjiang’s Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians. Schluessel previously taught at the University of Montana in Missoula and spent the 2018–2019 academic year as a Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, NJ. Schluessel has also completed a translation and critical edition of the Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mullah Mūsa Sayrāmī.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/new-books-in-asian-studies-uyghur-identity-and-culture-a-global-diaspora-in-a-time-of-crisis/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs  The George Washington University 1957 E Street\, NW | Washington\, DC | 20052
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SUMMARY:Book presentation: "Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon"
DESCRIPTION:Born in Shor-Tyube\, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic\, USSR\, in 1951\, Dungan ethnographer and creative writer Ali Dzhon is widely regarded as the pre-eminent writer on the material and spiritual culture and history of the Dungan people\, the Sinophone Muslims of Central Asia. Mystical Forest makes available for the first time in English a significant collection of Dzhon’s poems and short stories\, which he penned in Russian over a span of more than half a century\, from 1969 to 2021\, bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. In these rich literary works\, Dzhon expresses his thoughts about the world around him\, ponders the fate of his people and the meaning of life\, and provides finely nuanced descriptions of his feelings about love\, nature\, and those around him. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kenneth J. Yin teaches modern languages\, literatures\, and linguistics at the City University of New York. His scholarly work focuses on the Dungan literature and culture of Central Asia. Another area of interest for him is Siberian Tungus literatures and cultures\, primarily those of the Udege and Nanai peoples. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Prof. Mark Bender specializes in traditional performance and performance-connected literature of China\, including local Han and ethnic minority cultures. \n\n\n\nModerator: Aitolkyn Kourmanova is a multimedia and creative editor of multilingual platforms. She has produced and directed analytical content on Eurasia and Central Asia in Russian\, English\, and Uzbek languages. She has a solid background in academic publishing\, digital media creation\, cultural and educational exchange programs\, having worked with various international entities and the NGO sector. Her areas of expertise include strategic recommendations for political economy as well as business and country risk assessments on Central Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/book-presentation-mystical-forest-collected-poems-and-short-stories-of-dungan-ethnographer-ali-dzhon/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan,Uyghur Studies,Uzbekistan
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SUMMARY:Uzbekistan's Independence Day Concert
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Independence Day of the Republic of Uzbekistan\, the Central Asia Program and the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the United States are delighted to invite you to a special concert featuring renowned Uzbek performers: \n\n\n\n\nZhenisbek Piyazov: People’s Artist of Uzbekistan\, Karakalpakstan\, Bashkortostan\, and Tatarstan\, and an accomplished opera singer\n\n\n\nElmurod Akhmedov: People’s Artist of Uzbekistan\, singer\n\n\n\nFurqatbek Ashiraliyev: People’s Artist of Uzbekistan\, singer\n\n\n\nDonyorjon Yunusov: Musician\, flute\n\n\n\n\nThe concert will conclude with a discussion between the musicians and the audience. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/uzbekistans-independence-day-concert-2/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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SUMMARY:The Central Asia Program and the Embassy of Uzbekistan invite you to a movie night!
DESCRIPTION:On September 11\, 2001\, Flight 101 was a routine flight from Tashkent to Birmingham to New York. The passengers\, a diverse mix of Jews\, African Americans\, Pakistanis\, Uzbeks\, Russians\, and Indians\, represented the varied tapestry of humanity. They were businesspeople and workers\, each with their own stories\, never anticipating that on that fateful day\, their lives would intertwine in an extraordinary way. As the tragic events of 9/11 unfolded and the U.S. airspace closed\, Flight 101\, along with nearly 700 other flights\, was forced to divert. With fuel running low and no viable options for landing\, the captain made a bold and life-saving decision. Defying the odds\, he safely landed the plane at a Canadian military base in Goose Bay\, preserving the lives of all on board. This film tells the gripping story of that day\, highlighting the unity and resilience of ordinary people in the face of unimaginable adversity. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\nThe film will be screened in Uzbek with English subtitles. \n\n\n\nThe film was directed by Akrom Shakhnazarov\, who is also the author of films such as The Heart is Crying (2013) and Together (2016).
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-central-asia-program-and-the-embassy-of-uzbekistan-invite-you-to-a-movie-night/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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SUMMARY:Re-Evaluating Georgia’s Position in the South Caucasus Conflict
DESCRIPTION:In the 1990s\, Pres. Eduard Shevardnadze declared that “Transcaucasia is our mutual home\,” implying that Azeris\, Armenians\, and Georgians could live together peacefully in the region\, just as they do inside Georgia\, provided their governments’ propaganda did not interfere. However\, after 2008\, when Russia intervened and recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states\, some ethnic Armenians living in the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh hoped that their region would be next. \n\n\n\nThe geopolitical landscape of the South Caucasus underwent significant changes in 2020. It would have been hard to imagine that Georgia\, which severed diplomatic relations with Russia in 2008; and Azerbaijan\, whose population accused Moscow of supporting separatists; would drift towards Russia—while Armenia distanced itself\, accusing Russia of betrayal. After Azerbaijan’s military intervention in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023\, some experts suggested that Georgian leaders might hope to restore Georgia’s unity as well. \n\n\n\nGiven its Christian heritage and historical ties with Armenia\, can Georgia act as an impartial peace broker between Armenia and Azerbaijan\, or will it always be influenced by Azerbaijan due to the crucial oil and gas routes through its territory? Did Georgia support only Azerbaijan during the recent wars in 2020 and 2023\, upholding the principle of territorial integrity over that of self-determination? Can Georgia’s de facto leader\, the oligarch and former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili\, hope to reclaim Abkhazia without major bloodshed in exchange for abandoning Georgia’s pro-Western\, pro-NATO stance\, as Tom De Waal has recently suggested? Will Georgia’s impartiality be compromised by its economic dependencies? And whose influence is stronger in Tbilisi: Georgia’s Armenian or Azeri communities? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS:  \n\n\n\nShorena Lortkipanidze is the founder and a board member of the Civil Council on Defense and Security\, a nongovernmental organization established in Tbilisi\, Georgia in 2011. She is also a board member of the Georgian Institute of Politics. She is a PhD candidate at Tbilisi State University\, where she teaches in the gender studies master’s program and the International Development and International Relations program. Her professional interests include foreign policy\, defense and security policy\, security sector reform\, nuclear security and nonproliferation\, peace and conflict studies\, gender and diversity\, and social and political transformation processes. \n\n\n\nAlexander Iskandaryan is a prominent expert on politics\, nationalism\, and the contemporary history of Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eurasia. He is a political scientist and the Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia. He has authored numerous works on these topics\, presented papers\, and has talked at numerous conferences. \n\n\n\nAhmad Alili is a researcher in international public policy and regional security of the South Caucasus\, the Eastern Partnership countries\, and neighboring regional powers. He is part of several peacebuilding initiatives supported by the EU\, UN\, and Partnership for Peace Consortium. Currently\, he is the director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre (CPAC)\, a Baku-based independent think tank promoting regional integration in the South Caucasus. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration on the role of nonstate actors in regional security\, geopolitics\, public management\, and good governance. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR: \n\n\n\nMikail Mamedov holds a PhD in History from Georgetown University\, where he is also a Lecturer in History and the Liberal Studies Program of the School of Continuing Studies. His multiethnic Azeri-Armenian family arrived in the US back in 1996\, in the wake of the outbreak of the Karabakh conflict. He holds an MA from The George Washington University and a Diploma in History from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has authored numerous articles on the history of the Caucasus\, and on contemporary literature and the Karabakh conflict.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/re-evaluating-georgias-position-in-the-south-caucasus-conflict/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Re-evaluating Russia’s Influence in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Dispute
DESCRIPTION:The significant outflow of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh following the events of September 19–20\, 2023\, and the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Azerbaijan on April 17\, 2024\, signals a potential shift in Russia’s engagement in the South Caucasus. This rapid departure marks the first instance of Russia seemingly relinquishing its influence in a former Soviet territory so swiftly. The exit from the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic appears to have diminished Russia’s standing in Armenia\, sparking a pivot by the latter towards Western alignment\, while Azerbaijan continues to remember Russia’s longstanding support. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis Central Asia Program roundtable will examine various facets of the evolving scenario in order to better comprehend the situation in the South Caucasus: \n\n\n\n•  Does the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh signify a cessation of Russia’s historical dominion in the area\, a presence dating back to the early 19th century? \n\n\n\n•  What factors contributed to the ineffectiveness of Russian forces as peacekeepers in the region? \n\n\n\n•  Is there a connection between Russia’s actions in Ukraine and these subsequent developments in the South Caucasus? \n\n\n\n•  What other strategies might Russia employ to keep Armenia and Azerbaijan within its sphere of influence? \n\n\n\n•  Are there substantial grounds for the integration of either of these republics into the EU or NATO? •  What are the global interests at stake in this segment of the South Caucasus? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nYulia Nikitina is an Associate Professor (on leave until October 2025) in the World Politics Department\, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Eurasian Studies\, at MGIMO University. She is a specialist in security politics in Eurasia\, with a focus on regional organizations and Russian approaches to conflict resolution. She co-authored the RAND Corporation report “Getting Out from ‘In-Between’: Perspectives on the Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia” (2018)\, and has contributed to the edited volume\, European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times (2021). \n\n\n\nAlexander Iskandaryan is a prominent expert on politics\, nationalism\, and the contemporary history of Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eurasia. He is a political scientist and the Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia. He has authored many works on these topics\, presented papers\, and spoken at numerous conferences. \n\n\n\nAhmad Alili is a researcher on the international public policy and regional security of the South Caucasus\, the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries\, and neighboring regional powers. He is part of several peacebuilding initiatives supported by the EU\, the UN\, and NATO’s Partnership for Peace Consortium. Currently\, he is the director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre (CPAC)\, a Baku-based independent think tank promoting regional integration in the South Caucasus. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration (Baku) on the role of nonstate actors in regional security\, geopolitics\, public management\, and good governance. \n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nMikail Mamedov holds a PhD in History from Georgetown University\, where he is also a Lecturer in History and the Liberal Studies Program of the School of Continuing Studies. His multiethnic Azeri-Armenian family arrived in the US back in 1996\, in the wake of the outbreak of the Karabakh conflict. He holds an MA from The George Washington University and a Diploma in History from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has authored numerous articles on the history of the Caucasus\, and on contemporary literature and the Karabakh conflict.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/re-evaluating-russias-influence-in-the-armenia-azerbaijan-dispute/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:“Awaken\, Kazakh!” Kazakhstan’s History on Television: Reconstruction\, Interpretation\, Controversy
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\n\n\nMonday\, May 6\, 2024 10:00-11:30am EDT \n\n\n\n“Kazakhstan’s History on Television: Reconstruction\, Interpretation\, Controversy” is dedicated to the narrative representation of Kazakhstani history on television. Recent fictionalized biographies about leading Kazakh intellectuals such as Abai Qunanbayev (Qunanbaiuly)\, Ahmet Baitursynov (Baitursynuly)\, and Mirzhaqyp Dulatov (Dulatuly) evoked strong reactions among native audiences\, especially from young viewers. The presentations will offer keys to a deeper understanding of this phenomenon and reflect on how these films have shaped perceptions of Kazakhstan’s past both domestically and internationally. Join us for a fascinating discussion on the intersection of history\, culture\, and public discourse in contemporary Kazakhstan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nKarlyga Myssayeva is an associate professor in the Journalism Department at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan and currently a Visiting Scholar at IERES. She holds a PhD in Journalism from al-Farabi Kazakh National University. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Ohio University\, a Research Scholar at Oklahoma State University\, and a post-doctorate program (IFEAC) scholar at Strasbourg University in France. Her research interests focus on New media and Social media development  in Central Asia. \n\n\n\nMurat Yeszhan is a filmmaker based in Almaty\, Kazakhstan. He studied journalism at Kazakh National University in Almaty and worked as a journalist and reporter at a national TV channel. His debut was the short drama “I’m Going to Paris…\,” produced and filmed in San Francisco. In his recent works\, the director deals with themes of Kazakh history\, repression\, and decolonization. Filmography: I’m Going to Paris\, 2017 (short); Тиын (Coins)\, 2019 (feature); Абай жолы (The Path of Abai)\, 2020 (TV series); Ахмет. Ұлт ұстазы (Ahmet. Teacher of the Nation)\, 2021 (TV series); Міржақып. Оян\, қазақ! (Mirzhakyp. Awaken\, Kazakh!)\, 2022 (TV series\, feature). \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nPeter Rollberg is Professor of Slavic Languages\, Film Studies\, and International Affairs at the Gorge Washington University. He specializes in the history of Russian and Soviet literature and film\, Georgian and Kazakh cinema\, and Soviet and post-Soviet media. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Qazaqstan TV Channel
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/awaken-kazakh-kazakhstans-history-on-television-reconstruction-interpretation-controversy/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:COP29\, Azerbaijan\, and Environmental and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Online Event  \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2024 from 10:00-11:00 am EDT \n\n\n\nIn November 2024\, the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) will be held in Baku\, Azerbaijan\, marking the third year in a row that the meeting has convened in a country with significant fossil fuel reserves and a dismal human rights record. As Azerbaijan prepares for COP29\, the authorities have arrested and detained dozens of independent journalists and the country’s leading anticorruption expert focused on the oil and gas sector. Surveillance inside the country and abroad threatens civil society and media\, and snap elections in February\, which were held ahead of the scheduled elections that should have been set to take place in October 2025\, have ensured President Ilham Aliyev’s presidency for another seven years. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a panel discussion co-organized with Crude Accountability on Azerbaijan’s human rights record\, and the current environmental and human rights risks associated with the holding of COP29 in Baku. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAngelina Davydova is an environmental and climate journalist. Originally from Russia\, she is now based in Berlin\, Germany. She also edits the magazine Environment and Law\, and hosts the podcasts “The Eurasian Climate Brief” and “Posle Zavtra” (The day after tomorrow). She is currently a Fellow of the Institute for Global Reconstitution (Berlin) and an environmental and climate project coordinator with the Dialogue for Understanding e. V (Berlin). She is one of the editors and experts of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Working Group. She is one of the councilors of the World Future Council\, and she has been an observer of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2008. She is also a coordinator of the network of climate communicators from Kazakhstan organized by Eurasianet.org \n\n\n\nArzu Geybulla is an Azerbaijani columnist and writer with a special focus on digital authoritarianism and its implications on human rights and press freedoms. She has written for Al Jazeera\, Eurasianet\, CODA\, Open Democracy\, and Radio Free Europe\, with a byline on CNN International. She is also a regional editor for the South Caucasus and Turkey at Global Voices. In the past\, she had been involved in numerous cross-border confidence-building projects within the scope of the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation and other projects focusing on peaceful coexistence between Armenia and Azerbaijan. \n\n\n\nKate Watters is cofounder and executive director of Crude Accountability\, an environmental and human rights nonprofit that works with oil and gas-impacted communities in the Caspian Sea Basin\, including in Azerbaijan. She has worked on and extensively written about environmental\, human rights\, and climate issues in Azerbaijan. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \n\n\n\n RSVP\n\n\n\n JOIN ZOOM
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cop29-azerbaijan-and-environmental-and-human-rights/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Between Allies and Adversaries: Assessing Iran’s Stand on Armenia and Azerbaijan
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\n\n\nMonday\, April 22\, 2024 from 11:00am – 12:15pm EDT \n\n\n\nIn the South Caucasus\, Iran grapples with its relationships with Armenia and Azerbaijan amid regional power dynamics. Concerns about the pan-Turkic movement prompt Iran to consider alliances\, potentially including with Christian Armenia\, particularly as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also seeks leadership in the Muslim world. Allegations of Azerbaijani cooperation with Israeli intelligence further strain Tehran-Baku relations\, compounded by the significant Azerbaijani population in Iran. This complex interaction presents openings both for cooperation and for conflict. \n\n\n\nThis seminar will address several key questions\, including: \n\n\n\n\nWill Iran intervene on behalf of Armenia amidst growing Azerbaijani political assertiveness?\n\n\n\nHow strong is Azerbaijan’s sense of national identity in its southern regions?\n\n\n\nHow does Iran view Armenia’s Western pivot and its relations with Russia?\n\n\n\nShould Azerbaijan align more closely with the West\, the EU\, and NATO\, or should it maintain a balanced policy among Western powers\, Russia\, Iran\, and Turkey?\n\n\n\nCan Iran meet Armenia’s energy demands if the latter distances itself from Russia?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nShireen Hunter is an affiliate fellow at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University\, with which she was associated from 2005 to 2019 as a Visiting Fellow\, and as a Visiting and Research Professor. Prior to joining the Center\, she was the director of the Islam Program at CSIS\, with which she had been associated since 1983. From 1965 to 1979\, she was a member of the Iranian Foreign Service serving in London and Geneva. She has published extensively on Iran’s domestic and foreign policies as well as on the politics of the Caucasus and Central Asia\, including their relations with key regional and international players. \n\n\n\nAlexander Iskandaryan is a prominent expert on politics\, nationalism\, and the contemporary history of Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eurasia. He is a political scientist and the Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia. He has authored many works on these topics\, presented papers\, and spoken at numerous conferences. \n\n\n\nAhmad Alili is a researcher on the international public policy and regional security of the South Caucasus\, and neighboring regional powers. He is part of several peacebuilding initiatives. Currently\, he is the director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre (CPAC)\, a Baku-based independent think tank promoting regional integration in the South Caucasus. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nMikail Mamedov holds a PhD in History from Georgetown University\, where he is also a Lecturer in History and the Liberal Studies Program of the School of Continuing Studies. His multiethnic Azeri-Armenian family arrived in the US back in 1996\, in the wake of the outbreak of the Karabakh conflict. He holds an MA from The George Washington University and a Diploma in History from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has authored numerous articles on the history of the Caucasus\, and on contemporary literature and the Karabakh conflict. \n\n\n\n RSVP\n\n\n\n JOIN ZOOM
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/between-allies-and-adversaries-assessing-irans-stand-on-armenia-and-azerbaijan/
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SUMMARY:A Slow Reckoning: The USSR\, the Afghan Communists\, and Islam
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 9\, 2024 from 10:00-11:00am EDT \n\n\n\nVassily Klimentov will be discussing his book\, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR\, the Afghan Communists\, and Islam\, published by Northern Illinois University Press / Cornell University Press.  \n\n\n\nA Slow Reckoning examines the Soviet Union’s and the Afghan Communists’ views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989). As Klimentov demonstrates\, the Soviet and Communist Afghan disregard for Islam was telling of the overall Communist approach to reforming Afghanistan and helps explain the failure of their modernization project. The book also discusses Soviet attitudes toward Islamism in the late 1980s as Arab foreign fighters joined the Mujahideen in fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Drawing on his book’s findings\, Vassily Klimentov will also explain how the Soviet experience in Afghanistan is important to understanding both the US failure in Afghanistan in the 2000s and conflicts involving Russia in the post-Soviet space. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nVassily Klimentov is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Zurich. He was previously an SNF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He received his PhD in International History and International Relations/Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Prior to this\, he had spent several years as an aid worker\, including for two years in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nArtemy Kalinovsky is Professor of Russian\, Soviet\, and post-Soviet Studies at Temple University. He earned his BA from The George Washington University and his MA and PhD from the London School of Economics\, after which he spent a decade teaching at the University of Amsterdam. His first book was A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press\, 2011). His second book\, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell University Press\, 2018)\, won the Davis and Hewett prizes from the Association of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies. He is currently working on a project that studies the legacies of socialist development in contemporary Central Asia to examine entanglements between socialist and capitalist development approaches in the late 20th century. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nAitolkyn Kurmanova is the Senior Editor of Central Asian Analytical Network (CAAN) and Voices on Central Asia. She is a producer\, multimedia editor (English and Russian)\, and founder of several media projects\, including analytical journals\, podcasts\, and cultural programs on Central Asia. She is also a consultant and researcher on Central Asia’s political risks and economic strategies and authored several studies on regional economic cooperation\, trade\, commodity and financial markets.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/a-slow-reckoning-the-ussr-the-afghan-communists-and-islam/
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SUMMARY:Annual Security Workshop: Navigating Global Turbulence: Building Resilience in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:In-Person Event \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 28\, 2024 from 8:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EDT) \n\n\n\nCentral Asia is at a pivotal point\, facing significant geopolitical\, economic\, and environmental challenges that could have global consequences. The Central Asia Program Security Workshop aims to address these issues by fostering dialog among experts and stakeholders\, particularly in light of Russia’s war on Ukraine and China’s rising influence. The conference will explore shifting dynamics in the region\, the potential for economic growth through enhanced cooperation\, and the importance of environmental sustainability. Additionally\, it will assess the role of civil society in promoting democratic governance and respect for human rights. The goal is to develop actionable insights to improve US engagement and support the region’s stability\, prosperity\, and democratization. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Agenda \n\n\n\n8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU \n\n\n\n9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Keynote Speaker \n\n\n\nCentral Asia’s Changing Security Dilemmas \n\n\n\nEric Rudenshiold\, Caspian Policy Center \n\n\n\n9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Panel 1 \n\n\n\nThe Geopolitical Kaleidoscope: Central Asia amidst Global Turmoil \n\n\n\nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU \n\n\n\nIn Their Own Words: What Focus Groups Can Tell Us about Central Asian Views of the War in Ukraine \n\n\n\nEric McGlinchey\, George Mason University \n\n\n\nCentral Asia and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Drifting away from Moscow’s Orbit? \n\n\n\nChristopher Primiano\, Huntingdon College \n\n\n\nReactions to Israel’s War in Gaza in Central Asia  \n\n\n\nColleen Wood\, Century College  \n\n\n\nThe Evolving Relations between Central Asia and Taliban-Led Afghanistan \n\n\n\nBarmak Pazhwak\, United States Institute of Peace \n\n\n\n11:10 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Panel 2 \n\n\n\nEmpowering Central Asia: Advancing Economic Growth and Business Opportunities \n\n\n\nChair: US Ambassador Allan Mustard (ret.) \n\n\n\nCentral Asia’s Significance for American Companies: Steps to Consider \n\n\n\nElena V. Son-LaRocco\, Executive Director\, The American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce\, The US-Kyrgyzstan Business Council\, The US-Tajikistan Business Council\, The US-Afghanistan Business Initiative \n\n\n\nIs Turkmenistan Safe\, and Safe for Business?  \n\n\n\nEric Stewart\, US-Turkmenistan Business Council \n\n\n\nStrengthening Economic Security in Central Asia through Business-Led Regional Economic Integration \n\n\n\nSobir Kurbanov Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) \n\n\n\nLeveraging Geopolitical Importance to Harness Sustainable Economic and Business Development in Central Asia \n\n\n\nAyoob Ayoobi\, Project C.U.R.E. \n\n\n\n12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break \n\n\n\n1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Panel 3 \n\n\n\nPreserving Central Asia’s Environment: Strategies for Sustainability \n\n\n\nChair: Robert Orttung\, IERES\, GWU \n\n\n\nRegional Climate Action and the Role of the CAREC Regional Platform for Supporting Such Action \n\n\n\nJohannes Linn\, Brookings Institution \n\n\n\nEndangered\, but Not Extinct: Environmental Defenders in Central Asia \n\n\n\nKate Watters\, Crude Accountability \n\n\n\nClimate Mobility in Central Asia: An Understudied Issue? \n\n\n\nSuzy Blondin\, University of Neuchâtel \n\n\n\nEnvironmental Sustainability through the Green Economy’s Stakeholder Perspectives: A Case Study of Kazakhstan  \n\n\n\nDarzhan Kazbekova\, Syracuse University \n\n\n\n2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Panel 4 \n\n\n\nStrengthening Cooperation: Enhancing US Engagement in Central Asia \n\n\n\nChair: Eric Rudenshiold\, Caspian Policy Center \n\n\n\nBeyond Business: Engaging Central Asia in Other Spheres \n\n\n\nAllan Mustard\, US Ambassador (ret.) \n\n\n\nEmpowering US Engagement in Tajikistan \n\n\n\nZuhra Halimova\, Consultant\, World Bank \n\n\n\nFunding for Human Rights Work in Kazakhstan \n\n\n\nAida Aidarkulova\, CAPS Unlock \n\n\n\nInvesting in Liberty: Strengthening Foreign Aid for Civil Society in Central Asia \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU \n\n\n\nJoin us in the Lindner Family Commons (Room 602) at GW Elliott School of International Affairs \n\n\n\n REGISTER
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SUMMARY:Navigating Turmoil: The Dynamics of Armenian-Azerbaijani Relations in 2024
DESCRIPTION:Online Event \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 14\, 2024 from 11:00am – 12:15pm \n\n\n\nNearly six months since the end of the Third Karabakh War\, tensions persist along the Armenia-Azerbaijan borders as both nations trade accusations. Discontent with Russia’s failure to protect Karabakh’s residents has prompted Armenia to reconsider its Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) membership\, raising the question of who could fill the void. Meanwhile\, Azerbaijan continues strengthening its military\, expressing concern over Armenia’s armament. The debate over Armenia’s coat of arms and anthem further complicates the situation\, with Turkey and Azerbaijan questioning the symbolism. Amidst these uncertainties\, the region grapples with the future\, the potential for peace\, and the risk of further conflict. \n\n\n\nWhat is the future of the region? What role should the US and western European countries play in preventing another outbreak of violence in the region? Is a renewed war still possible? Why are the Armenian Coat of Arms and its anthem irritating Azerbaijan? Should the Russians leave the region\, and if so\, who might substitute for them?  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAnn L. Phillips\, PhD\, is a scholar-practitioner with decades-long experience researching and teaching at US and European universities about system transitions in the former Soviet Union\, complemented by practitioner work for USAID\, The George C. Marshall Center for European Security\, and the US Institute of Peace on assistance to conflict-affected and fragile states in the region. She is currently a Fellow at the Center for Peacemaking Practice\, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Arlington\, Virginia. \n\n\n\nAlexander Iskandaryan is a prominent expert on politics\, nationalism\, and the contemporary history of Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eurasia. He is a political scientist and the Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia. He has authored numerous works on these topics\, presented papers\, and has talked at numerous conferences. \n\n\n\nAhmad Alili is a researcher in international public policy and regional security of the South Caucasus\, the Eastern Partnership countries\, and neighboring regional powers. He is part of several peacebuilding initiatives supported by the EU\, UN\, and Partnership for Peace Consortium. Currently\, he is the director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre (CPAC)\, a Baku-based independent think tank promoting regional integration in the South Caucasus. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration on the role of nonstate actors in regional security\, geopolitics\, public management\, and good governance. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nMikail Mamedov holds a PhD in History from Georgetown University\, where he is also a Lecturer in History and the Liberal Studies Program of the School of Continuing Studies. His multiethnic Azeri-Armenian family arrived in the US back in 1996\, in the wake of the outbreak of the Karabakh conflict. He holds an MA from The George Washington University and a Diploma in History from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has authored numerous articles on the history of the Caucasus\, and on contemporary literature and the Karabakh conflict. \n\n\n\n RSVP\n\n\n\n JOIN ZOOM
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/navigating-turmoil-the-post-war-dynamics-in-armenia-and-azerbaijan-after-the-third-karabakh-war/
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SUMMARY:Navigating the New Energy Geopolitics: Assessing Russia's Power Play in Central Asia's Post-2022 Gas Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Event \n\n\n\nFriday\, March 8\, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30am \n\n\n\nThe disruption of Russian gas supplies in 2022 sparked a profound reappraisal of supply and infrastructure dependencies beyond the EU-Russia energy relationship. In this new geopolitical reality\, it is necessary to critically assess Russia’s use of energy supply and infrastructure investments as a tool of geopolitical power in Central Asia. Russia has heavily relied on legal instruments—an often neglected dimension of energy statecraft—to cement energy dependencies. This seminar will scrutinize Russia’s bilateral energy supply relationships and investment agreements in the region. It will also address the regional energy market integration under the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Russia-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan Gas Union\, a trilateral alliance that symbolizes a significant shift in Central Asian energy dynamics. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAnatole Boute is a law professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, specializing in energy\, climate\, and investment law. He is the author of Energy Dependence and Supply Security (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, Energy Security along the New Silk Road (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) and Russian Electricity and Energy Investment Law (Brill Nijhoff 2015). He was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2009\, and regularly assists development banks\, governments\, and investors on questions of energy and climate regulation\, with a focus on Central Asia. \n\n\n\nShaimerden Chikanayev is a PhD researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of infrastructure law as partner of the biggest law firm in Central Asia (GRATA Law) and as in-house counsel of an international financial institution. Chambers\, Legal 500\, Asialaw Profiles and International Financial Law Review consistently rank him among the top Kazakhstani lawyers for his experience in project finance\, public-private partnerships\, M&A and capital markets. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \n\n\n\nJoin us virtually or in person in the Voesar Conference Room (Suite 412) at the GW Elliott School of International Affairs \n\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/navigating-the-new-energy-geopolitics-assessing-russias-power-play-in-central-asias-post-2022-gas-crisis/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs  The George Washington University 1957 E Street\, NW | Washington\, DC | 20052
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Dynamics of Open Government in Kazakhstan: A Critical Assessment of Tokayev’s "Listening State" Reform
DESCRIPTION:Image from Kazakhstan’s Presidential Press Service \n\n\n\nOnline Event \n\n\n\nIn March 2019\, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev assumed the presidency through a meticulously orchestrated succession\, pledging to advance political liberalization and foster greater responsiveness among Kazakh state officials to the concerns of ordinary citizens. Against the backdrop of election protests in June 2019\, the nation’s second President introduced the transformative “Listening State” reform\, marking a significant departure from the hardline autocracy that characterized his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev’s 28-year rule. \n\n\n\nThe events of Bloody January (Qandy Qantar) in 2022 brought attention to issues of economic inequality and poverty\, prompting a shift in focus from the “Listening State” to the “Just Kazakhstan” reform package. The subsequent government agenda for 2022–2023 emphasized constitutional changes\, economic initiatives supporting populism\, and the reclamation of assets from oligarchs by the state. Despite these changes\, the demand for a responsive and genuinely open government persists in the post-conflict landscape of the country. \n\n\n\nFive years after the initiation of the Listening State reforms\, numerous questions linger. In this event\, four experts will analyze and discuss the prospects for open government in Kazakhstan\, offering a critical assessment of the extent and limitations of the materialization of Tokayev’s Listening State reform. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDr. Bakhytzhan Kurmanov\, Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Development\, University of Central Asia. Previously\, he served as an Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics at KazGUU. He has extensive experience working with international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme\, the Asian Development Bank\, and various Kazakhstani think tanks. His research focuses on diverse areas related to Central Asian studies\, including open government\, digital citizen activism\, and the politics and political economy of authoritarianism\, as well as nation-building and memory politics. His scholarly contributions have been published in journals such as the Journal of Eurasian Studies\, Central Asian Survey\, and Asian Development Review. In 2021\, he completed his PhD in Public Policy at Nazarbayev University\, where he delved into the study of open government reform in Central Asia.  \n\n\n\nDr. Saltanat Janenova is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the School for Policy Studies\, University of Bristol\, and a Visiting Professor in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include public-sector reforms in post-Soviet Eurasia\, open government\, corruption\, and public service innovations. Previously\, she worked at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) and the University of Birmingham (UK). She has been a long-term consultant to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Development Prorgram (UNDP). Her research work has been published in reputable journals in the field of public policy and public administration. \n\n\n\nMira Beisenova is a Program Manager at the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. Mira holds a master’s degree in international relations from KIMEP University (Kazakhstan). As a Development Communication specialist with 15 years of experience\, she was involved in UN projects on improving the welfare of communities\, the World Bank’s poverty-reduction program\, the EU Project on Enhancing the Criminal Justice System of Kazakhstan\, and many others\, which have enhanced national development efforts and engaged in regional initiatives on strengthening civil society. \n\n\n\nGaziz Abishev holds a master’s degree in mathematics from the Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute (Kazakhstan). From 2005 to 2009\, he served as a mathematics teacher at Gymnasium No. 3 for gifted children. Transitioning to the field of business journalism\, he worked in various roles from correspondent to editor-in-chief between 2009 and 2019. In 2016\, he completed his master’s degree in economics at Queen Mary University of London. Since 2019\, he has shifted his focus to become a political commentator and analyst\, establishing the ABISHEV ANALYTICS Telegram channel and the NeKurultay YouTube channel. He actively contributes to the production of analytical reports for various policy institutes in Kazakhstan. In 2022\, Gaziz embarked on a new journey\, and is now pursuing a doctoral degree in Political Science at the Eurasian National University. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \n\n\n\n RSVP\n\n\n\n JOIN ZOOM
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SUMMARY:Central Asia: Multi-Vector Policy for the 21st Century—Strategy and Development
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Event \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 6th\, 2024 from 10:00am-2:00pm \n\n\n\nCentral Asia’s multi-vector approach to diplomacy has long been a cornerstone of its foreign policy\, playing a prominent role in regional discussions. This strategic framework enables states to nurture relations with influential actors like Russia and China\, while safeguarding their own sovereignty. Central Asian nations have effectively pursued strategic objectives\, attracted Western capital\, and managed to navigate complex geopolitical landscapes without succumbing to conflicts. \n\n\n\nInitially applied within the realm of foreign policy and geopolitical relationships\, multi-vector policy has evolved to encompass diverse contexts in the region. This inclusive approach now extends to areas such as economic growth\, overcoming impediments like the Jackson-Vanik Amendment\, formulating commodity development strategies linked to rare earth elements exports\, exploring transit opportunities along the middle corridor\, and more. \n\n\n\nIn this event\, renowned experts\, academics\, and policymakers will delve into the vital issues surrounding multi-vector policy in Central Asia\, with a specific focus on its economic and strategic implications. Join us for a comprehensive exploration of this critical aspect shaping the future trajectory of the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Overview \n\n\n\n10:00am: Introductory Remarks from Sebastien Peyrouse \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \n\n\n\n10:05 – 10:30am: Keynote Speaker: S. Frederick Starr \n\n\n\nS. Frederick Starr joined the American Foreign Policy Council as Distinguished Fellow for Eurasia in January 2017. He serves as the founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. He is also a Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University-SAIS in Washington and Head of Advisory Council at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. Starr has focused on the challenge of reopening continent-wide transport passing through Central Asia and Afghanistan\, which he sees as a key to success in Afghanistan itself. This issue was the subject of a series of articles between 2000 and 2008 and of a book\, The New Silk Roads\, published in 2007. For writings that have had a direct impact on policy\, see The Key to Success in Afghanistan [with A. Kuchins et al.] and Afghanistan Beyond the Fog of Nation Building: Giving Economic Strategy a Chance. \n\n\n\n10:30am – 12:45pm: Panel 1: The New Geopolitics of Central Asia: Rebalancing China\, Russia\, and the West \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAriel Cohen\, LLB\, PhD\, is an internationally renowned expert on energy policy\, Russia/Eurasia\, Eastern and Central Europe\, and the Middle East. He is a recognized authority on political and security risk management\, economic development\, investment policy\, the rule of law\, crime and corruption\, market entry strategies\, and other aspects of state/business relations. He is a Senior Fellow with the International Tax and Investment Center and Managing Director of the Energy\, Growth and Security program. He also serves as a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a member of the prestigious Loisach Group at the George Marshall Center in Garmisch\, Bavaria\, Germany. \n\n\n\nDr. Kamran Bokhari is the Senior Director of the Eurasian Security and Prosperity portfolio at the New Lines Institute. He served as Director of the Analytical Development Department from 2019 to 2023. He is a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has also served as the Central Asia Studies Course Coordinator at the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. He was a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University (2016–2018). He has also been a Senior Consultant with the World Bank since 2009. He has 15 years of experience in the private-sector intelligence space\, during which he provided intellectual leadership in the publishing of cutting-edge geopolitical analysis and forecasts. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Kairat Abusseitov is the Head of International Programs at the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation of Kazakhstan and an experienced diplomat. He has held positions including Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United Kingdom and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Through these roles\, he has helped to develop Kazakhstan’s role in the global landscape. \n\n\n\nAmbassador John E. Herbst is Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and served for 31 years as a foreign service officer in the US Department of State\, retiring at the rank of career minister. He was US ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006\, when he worked to enhance US-Ukrainian relations\, help ensure the conduct of a fair Ukrainian presidential election\, and prevent violence during the Orange Revolution. Prior to that\, he was ambassador to Uzbekistan (2000–2003)\, where he played a critical role in the establishment of an American base to help conduct Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He also promoted improved US-Uzbek relations\, in part by encouraging the government in Tashkent to improve its human rights record. In his last four years at the State Department\, he served as the coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization\, leading the US government’s civilian capacity in societies in transition from conflict or civil strife\, and to provide support to countries at risk of instability. He oversaw the establishment of the Civilian Response Corps of the United States\, the US civilian rapid response force for reconstruction and stabilization operations overseas. \n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\nAmbassador (retired) Allan Mustard capped 38 years of diplomatic service as US ambassador to Turkmenistan from January 2015 to June 2019. A fluent Russian-speaker\, Ambassador Mustard spent roughly a third of his career as an American diplomat either in the former Soviet Union or in Washington dealing with that region. His other postings included Vienna\, where he covered seven countries of Central Europe; Istanbul\, where he covered Turkey\, Syria\, and Lebanon; Mexico City; and New Delhi\, where he covered India\, Bangladesh\, and Sri Lanka. He was chairman of the board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation from 2019 to 2021\, and is currently on the board of directors of American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n12:45 – 2pm: Panel 2: New Economic Paradigms in Central Asia: Energy Transitions\, Connectivity\, and Beyond \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nWesley Alexander Hill\, ABD\, is the leading Research Associate and International Program Manager for the Energy\, Growth\, and Security Program at the International Tax and Investment Center. ITIC’s EGS arm focuses on critical natural resources\, energy transformations\, infrastructure\, and geopolitics in Eurasia while exploring opportunities for investment and policymaking. He is an accomplished foreign policy professional and expert on energy policy\, security studies\, grand strategy\, Chinese politics\, Sino-American relations\, Sino-African relations\, and Sino-Eurasian relations. He serves as a contributor and has been published in Forbes\, New Lines\, Voice of America\, and the Nomura Research Group. \n\n\n\nVladislav Inozemtsev\, PhD\, is a Russian economist. He is the Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Studies\, which he founded in 1996. Between 2002 and 2012\, he was editor-in-chief of the journal Svobodnaya Mysl\, and editor of the Russian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. From 2011 to 2014\, he was a professor at Moscow State University (MGU) and the Higher College of Economics (HCE). From 2014 to 2018\, he was a senior researcher at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna)\, the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, Johns Hopkins University SAIS (Washington\, DC)\, and the Polski Instytut Studiów Zaawansowanych (Warsaw). He is the author of more than 20 books and 500 publications in academic journals. \n\n\n\nMargarita Assenova is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. She is a regular contributor to the Jamestown publication Eurasia Daily Monitor on political and energy security developments in the Balkans and Central Asia. She is a recipient of the John Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University for her reporting on nationalism in the Balkans. She has authored book chapters and journal articles on security\, energy\, and democracy published by CSIS Press\, Brassey’s\, Freedom House\, Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers\, the University of New Haven\, and The Jamestown Foundation. \n\n\n\nGulyamjon Pirimkulov is a career diplomat currently serving as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Uzbekistan. Since joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004\, he has held senior positions overseeing multilateral cooperation within the United Nations\, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe\, and other organizations. He completed assignments at the Permanent Missions of Uzbekistan in Geneva (2007–2008) and New York (2012–2016 and 2020–2024). He is a graduate of Tashkent State University of Law (LLM) and Samarkand State University (LLB). \n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\nDr. Stephen J. Blank is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s (FPRI) Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian\, US\, Asian\, and European military and foreign policy; testified frequently before Congress on Russia\, China\, and Central Asia; consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency\, major think tanks\, and foundations; chaired major international conferences in the US\, Florence\, Prague\, and London; and been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the US and abroad. He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us virtually or in person in the Lindner Family Commons (Room 602) at the GW Elliott School of International Affairs
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-multi-vector-policy-for-the-21st-century-strategy-and-development/
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SUMMARY:Central Asian Regionalism: Insights from Inside and Out
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Event  \n\n\n\nSince the dawn of independence\, the five post-Soviet Central Asian republics have identified themselves as a single political region. However\, their separate efforts to shape national identities\, institutions\, and policies have not always been compatible with the promotion of regional cooperation. Today we see a resurgence of regionalism in Central Asia. There is a growing understanding that the countries of the region need to work together to enhance trade\, address shared challenges\, and navigate relationships with foreign actors. This commitment has been exemplified not only by regular Central Asian summits\, but also by a proliferation of the C5+1 dialogues with external actors\, such as the US\, China\, and Germany. \n\n\n\nThis event endeavors to untangle the intricate perspectives surrounding the development of regionalism\, with a specific emphasis on how foreign stakeholders and nations including the US\, EU\, and China perceive and contribute to the regional dynamics. Simultaneously\, it aims to illuminate perspectives originating from within Central Asian nations\, focusing particularly on the nuanced viewpoints from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nNargis Kassenova is a senior fellow and director of the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center. Prior to joining the Center\, she was an associate professor at the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies of KIMEP University (Almaty\, Kazakhstan). She is the founder and former director of the KIMEP Central Asian Studies Center (CASC) and the China and Central Asia Studies Center (CCASC). She holds a PhD in international cooperation studies from the Graduate School of International Development\, Nagoya University (Japan). Her research focuses on Central Asian politics and security\, Eurasian geopolitics\, China’s Belt and Road Initiative\, governance in Central Asia\, and the history of state-making in Central Asia. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division\, the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs\, the Central Eurasian Studies Society board\, and the Steering Committee of the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions. She is on the editorial boards of the journals Central Asian Survey\, Central Asian Affairs\, and REGION: Regional Studies of Russia\, Eastern Europe\, and Central Asia.  \n\n\n\nMarsha McGraw Olive\, PhD\, is a scholar and practitioner of Russian and Eurasian affairs. She is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins SAIS\, an Advisory Board member of the Caspian Policy Center and Eurasia Foundation\, and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. In 2022\, she received a George F. Kennan Fellowship to develop a new US regional strategy in Central Asia. Dr. Olive’s thirty-year career in the region began in 1991–1992\, when she joined the newly-created Soviet unit in the World Bank and participated in its first mission to Central Asia. She led strategic planning and managed investment and grant portfolios in Russia\, Ukraine\, the Caucasus\, and Central Asia with the World Bank and as Senior Vice President of the Eurasia Foundation. As the Bank’s Country Manager in Tajikistan\, she participated in major regional infrastructure and water projects such as CASA-1000 and the Rogun Dam feasibility study. From 2018–2022\, she was the lead consultant on the World Bank’s Regional Engagement Framework for Central Asia (REFCA). Dr. Olive earned her MA and PhD at Johns Hopkins SAIS\, and she is the author of monographs on Russia and Central Asia. Her most recent book is Owning the City: Property Rights in Authoritarian Regimes (Agenda Publishing 2022). \n\n\n\nAlisher Faizullaev\, DSc in Political Science and PhD in Psychology\, is a scholar\, author\, teacher\, diplomatic and negotiation skills trainer\, and former Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United Kingdom (1999–2003)\, Benelux countries\, the European Union\, and NATO (1995–1998). He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy\, School of Foreign Service\, Georgetown University (2011–2012)\, as well as a Visiting Scholar at McGill University (2014)\, Cambridge University (2005)\, and Western Washington University (1992). He has published 10 scholarly\, fiction\, and nonfiction books\, along with numerous articles on social and behavioral sciences\, and his short stories have been published in Uzbekistan\, the United States\, Russia\, and the Republic of Korea. His two latest scholarly works\, Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: A Subtle Game of Diplomatic Slap (2018)\, and Diplomacy for Professionals and Everyone (2022)\, have been published by Brill in Leiden and Boston. Currently\, he is a Leif J. Sverdrup Global Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor at Webster University in St. Louis\, Missouri\, USA.  \n\n\n\nKadyr Toktogulov is a former Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the US and Canada (2015–2019). Prior to his diplomatic appointment in Washington\, DC\, he had worked as a presidential spokesman (2011–2014) following his journalism career with the Associated Press\, Dow Jones Newswires\, and the Wall Street Journal covering Central Asia\, with a special focus on Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan (2003–2011). He is a graduate of the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan). \n\n\n\nSanat Kushkumbayev is a Doctor of Political Science and Deputy Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KazISS). Currently\, he is a Visiting Scholar at The George Washington University\, and he is also an Associate Professor at the Eurasian National University (ENU). With over 25 years of experience in research\, teaching\, and public service within academic institutions\, think tanks\, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, his research interests focus on the study of foreign policy\, international relations\, regional cooperation\, and security issues in Central Asia. \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nPaul Stronski teaches in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. His research and teaching interests focus on Russia and Eurasia\, specifically Central Asia and the South Caucasus. He has had a long career as a US government policymaker and think tank analyst.  \n\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asian-regionalism-insights-from-inside-and-out/
LOCATION:Voesar Conference Room (Suite 412) at the Elliott School of International Affairs\, The George Washington University\, 1957 E Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20052
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SUMMARY:The 80th Anniversary of the Chechen and Ingush Deportation: What is its legacy today?
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 27\, 2024 from 10:00-11:00am \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion organized by the Central Asia Program at The George Washington University to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush nations to Central Asia. The speakers will discuss the historical and political significance that deportation still holds for the people of the North Caucasus\, Central Asia\, and beyond. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nZarina Sautieva is a human rights defender and researcher from Ingushetia\, Russia. She has a MA in International Protection of Human Rights and worked at the human rights organization Stichting Justice Initiative. She was also a Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. \n\n\n\nZarina Akhmatova is a journalist\, editor\, and producer for different outlets in Kazakhstan. She has edited the books Forging God’s Signature\, by Alon Davidov and Operation: Jusan\, by Erlan Karin. She has also produced documentaries and worked as a trainer at the MediaNet International Centre for Journalism. \n\n\n\nMilana Mazaeva is a Chechen journalist who works for the New York Times. She was born and raised in Grozny. In 2017\, she moved to Moscow and joined the BBC Russian Service. In 2021\, she relocated to the USA. In 2022\, she was part of the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer and an Emmy for Visual Investigation. \n\n\n\nOrts Lamro is a law student at Fordham University. His work on Chechnya includes contributions to the book series “Freedom or Death: History of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria by Francesco Benedetti.” He left Chechnya as a child after the Second Russian-Chechen War erupted. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nDr. Marat Iliyasov is a Chechen scholar of International Relations and Comparative Politics. As a Fellow at the Global Academy of GWU he explores post-Soviet conflicts\, religious radicalization\, and memory politics. Dr. Iliyasov worked as a journalist\, and activist in Georgian and Lithuanian NGOs. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n RSVP
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-80th-anniversary-of-the-chechen-and-ingush-deportation-what-is-its-legacy-today/
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SUMMARY:Researching Central Asia. Navigating Positionality in the Field
DESCRIPTION:Researching Central Asia can be interesting\, entertaining\, life-changing\, traumatizing and\, at the very least\, thought provoking. The way we\, Central Asians and Central Asianists\, experience the region differs\, but it certainly impacts our lives in a multitude of small and not-so-small ways. \n\n\n\nBased on first-hand personal and professional experiences of Central Asia experts coming from both inside and outside the region\, the book contributes to a much-needed global conversation on identity\, positionality\, knowledge production\, and the intricate interplay between researchers’ values and principles and the pressures of the job. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research\, it addresses key questions\, including:  \n\n\n\n\nHow shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? \n\n\n\nHow does practitioners’ and scholars’ positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion\, exclusion\, and access to the field? \n\n\n\nHow do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia?\n\n\n\n\nThis roundtable provides an opportunity to learn more about the book and engage in a conversation about doing research in and on Central Asia. The speakers include contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries\, who will discuss how their subjectivity and positionality shape how they are received in the region\, which\, in turn\, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDr. Jasmin Dall’Agnola is a postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs Institute for European\, Russian and Eurasian Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on the relationship between technology\, surveillance and governance in authoritarian societies. Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals\, including Europe-Asia Studies\, Central Asian Affairs\, Surveillance & Society and Central Asian Survey. She is the Editor for short content for Central Asian Survey. \n\n\n\nDr. Aijan Sharshenova is the executive director at Crossroads Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) and a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre (UK). She holds a PhD in Politics awarded at the University of Leeds. Aijan has recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek\, where she researched Russian policies in Central Asia. Aijan has published extensively on Central Asia’s relations with the EU\, Russia and China\, as well as on domestic Kyrgyz politics. In addition to her academic career\, Aijan has worked in the international development area\, including the UN system in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nDr. Aziz Elmuradov is a research associate at the Department of Politics and Society at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. His research interests include the post-Soviet politics against the background of East/West paradigm\, political and historical sociology of autocratic politics in Central Asia. Aziz Elmuradov is coordinator of the postdoctoral fellowship program “Institutional Change and Social Practice. Research on the Political System\, the Economy and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. \n\n\n\nAlexa Kurmanov is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of California\, Berkeley. Broadly their research focuses on LGBT and feminist activism in Kyrgyzstan through the lens of Black feminist theorization and methods of intersectionality. In particular\, they explore the ways in which the category of “woman” in (post)socialist/(post)colonial Kyrgyzstan is reconstructed by state and public discourse. Furthermore\, how the category of woman cuts through class\, race\, and space and how local LGBT and feminist communities navigate\, contest\, and rearticulate notions of gender and sex in the everyday. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtwork by Guzel Zakirat
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/researching-central-asia-navigating-positionality-in-the-field/
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SUMMARY:Central Asia’s Aral Sea: Lessons for Today’s Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Event\, Image by NASA Earth Observatory \n\n\n\nOnce one of the world’s largest inland bodies of water\, the Aral Sea began to shrink dramatically in the 1960s\, when Soviet officials directed an increasing volume of water towards cotton production.  As a result of the declining water levels\, the climate and ecology of the surrounding region changed.  Dust storms carried toxins from the exposed seabed and agricultural chemicals across Central Asia. People who lived near the sea began to experience a dramatic increase in health problems and the sea’s once vibrant fishing industry collapsed.   \n\n\n\nWriting at the height of the Cold War\, many Western analysts framed this disaster as a uniquely Soviet story.  Communist politics\, they argued\, were solely responsible for what had occurred.  Today\, however\, it is clear that many aspects of the Aral Sea disaster are not unique. Bodies of water around the globe\, including Lake Chad in Africa and Lake Mead and the Great Salt Lake in the United States\, are drying up.  These disasters all bear a striking resemblance to the Aral Sea story.  Rather than a uniquely distinctive event\, the disappearance of Central Asia’s Aral Sea should be seen in many respects as a harbinger of our own future\, as we confront the threat of climate change and adjust to a world of water scarcity. \n\n\n\nThis panel brings together a distinguished group of Aral Sea experts\, including scholars and practitioners\, to discuss what we can learn from the Aral Sea’s retreat and how we can apply this knowledge to address climate crises in the future. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nSarah Cameron is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland\, College Park. At present\, she is at work on a book\, Aral: Life and Death of a Sea. In 2022\, Dr. Cameron was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow\, and funds from the Carnegie Corporation will support her research on the Aral Sea. Additionally\, she is the author of The Hungry Steppe: Famine\, Violence\, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan(Cornell University Press\, 2018)\, which examines a little-known crime of the Stalinist regime\, the Kazakh famine of the 1930s. The book won numerous awards in the United States. It also provoked intense discussion in Kazakhstan where the famine remains a sensitive topic\, in part due to Kazakhstan’s close relationship with Russia. Russian and Kazakh translations of the book have been released. Dr. Cameron received her PhD in history from Yale University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Shields is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies & Sciences Program at Rhodes College in Memphis\, Tennessee. Her research focuses on rethinking development and environmental transformation in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan. Kate received her PhD in Geography from the University of Oregon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZauresh Alimbetova is Acting director of the Executive Board of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea. Ms. Alimbetova develops recommendations on water legislation in the Republic of Kazakhstan\, ensures monitoring and implementation of state programs on rational use of water resources and the transition of the Kazakhstan to the Green Economy model. She participates in the work of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Brites is a Clinical Associate Professor in the John Martinson Honors College\, Purdue University. She is an archaeologist of the Aral Sea Basin who has worked on international field projects in the region since 2005\, first as a contributing member of the Karakalpak-Australian Expedition to Ancient Chorasmia and\, following this\, as Project Co-Director of the Khorezm Ancient Agriculture Project. She was a 2018 National Geographic Explorer and holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her research explores human-environment relationships in ancient Central Asia with a focus on water and agriculture. Her publications have appeared in top-tier academic journals including The Holocene\, the Journal of World Prehistory\, and the Journal of Political Ecology\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilder Alejandro Sánchez is President of Second Floor Strategies\, a consulting firm in Washington\, DC. He is an analyst who monitors defense and security\, geopolitical\, and trade issues across the Western Hemisphere\, Eastern Europe\, and Central Asia. For several years\, he has researched Kazakhstan’s foreign policy\, defense\, and environmental issues. His chapter\, “A Frontier Market in the COVID-19 Era: Kazakhstan’s Economic Diversification in the 2020s\,” was published in the book Central Asia and the Covid-19 Pandemic (SpringerLink). His essay “Kazakhstan’s Green Strategy: Keeping the Steppe Green\,” appeared in a 2023 issue of the SAIS Review of International Affairs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asias-aral-sea-lessons-for-todays-climate-crisis/
LOCATION:Lindner Family Commons\, 6th floor  GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs\, 1957 E St NW\, Washington\, 20052
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SUMMARY:Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Protest Motivations\, Public Perceptions and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Online discussion co-organized by the PaperLab Research Center (Astana\, Kazakhstan) \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the first days of 2022\, Kazakhstan witnessed a series of protests that sent shockwaves through the country. The response from authorities was marked by ambiguity\, resulting in numerous casualties and injuries. To this day\, a clear understanding of the events remains elusive. During this online discussion\, the PaperLab Research Center will share its insights into public sentiment regarding the January 2022 protests. They will delve into people’s perspectives on the actions of the authorities and assess the level of trust in the official investigations. Additionally\, researchers will share their findings from interviews with protesters shedding light on the internal dynamics of the protest mobilization. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFurthermore\, Yevgeniy Zhovtis\, the director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights\, will disclose data collected in collaboration with the Human Rights Alliance for Fundamental Rights before\, during\, and after the events. He will report on labor and social rights violations in the Mangystau region\, where the protests began. Mr. Zhovtis will also report on issues related to the right to life\, freedom from torture\, and the right to a fair trial during the investigations surrounding the “Bloody January.” \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSerik Beissembayev is a sociologist and researcher focusing on public policy issues such as violent extremism\, interethnic relations\, and civil society in Kazakhstan. He is currently a co-founder and director of the PaperLab Research Center\, an independent think tank based in Astana. At PaperLab\, Mr. Beissembayev and his team conduct sociological and public policy research. Since 2020\, PaperLab has completed over 40 research projects in partnership with governmental and international organizations. In 2022\, the PaperLab team organized the first Central Asian Think Tank Forum\, a collaboration and dialogue platform for independent research and analytical centers in the Central Asian region. Mr. Beissembayev is also known for his scientific and analytical publications in both Kazakhstani and international media outlets on issues pertaining to policy issues and public opinion. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nKamila Kovyazina is a sociology and public policy researcher in Kazakhstan. Kamila has 12 years of experience working in several think tanks to conduct sociology field studies and preparing analytical papers. Since April 2022\, she is a part of PaperLab Research Center. Kamila holds an MA in Area studies from the Eurasian National University and is a doctoral student at the Nazarbayev University. Her research interests include gender issues\, inequality\, and secondary education. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAldiyar Auyezbek is a Research Fellow at PaperLab specializing in researching economy and social perceptions in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. In six years of experience in Kazakhstani policy think tanks\, he has contributed to economic policy and human capital development projects. At PaperLab\, he has published articles on Kazakhstani societal perceptions and participated in studies on education\, public safety\, and healthcare. His research interests include the Central Asian region and sustainable development. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nYevgeniy Zhovtis serves as the director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights\, the oldest and largest civil society organization in Kazakhstan\, which marked its thirtieth anniversary this past summer. Since becoming involved in activism in the late 1980s\, Mr. Zhovtis has devoted his career to defending human rights and opposing government repression. As a human rights expert\, Mr. Zhovtis is a member of the Council of International Bar Association Human Rights Institute and OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and Association. He co-authored the Report on the Bolotnaya Square Events in Moscow\, published in 2012 by the International Expert Commission. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nKarlygash Kabatova is a Program Associate at the Central Asia Program\, IERES\, The George Washington University. Her areas of research and advocacy are youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)\, gender education\, gender-based violence\, and civil activism. Karlygash is the founder of an SRHR project in Kazakhstan UyatEmes.kz.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakhstans-bloody-january-protest-motivations-public-perceptions-and-human-rights/
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SUMMARY:Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations after the Third Karabakh War
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Seminar\, image by Arzu Geybulla \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reached a dramatic end on September 19\, 2023\, when the Azerbaijani military ended the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic\, and almost its entire Armenian population fled to Armenia. Meanwhile\, Armenia now faces a humanitarian crisis of refugees from Karabakh\, while Azerbaijan demands the opening of the Zangezur corridor to connect with its Nakhichevan exclave to the southwest of Armenia. Russia\, in turn\, distracted by a war in Ukraine\, has lost its leverage over the South Caucasus\, leaving Armenia to seek new partners in the West. The West\, at this moment\, also concerned about Ukraine and the crises in the Middle East\, has shown little interest in the South Caucasus. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, six experts will discuss the current situation in this part of the South Caucasus. They will explore the causes and consequences of the Third Karabakh War\, the region’s future\, and the foreign policy goals of Armenia and Azerbaijan. They will also analyze the interests and roles of prominent international actors\, such as Russia\, the USA\, Iran\, Turkey\, the EU\, and France\, who might have their own particular interest in the South Caucasus. \n\n\n\nIntroductory remarks: Sebastien Peyrouse\, Director of The Central Asia Program. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nNona Shahnazarian is Associate Researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Yerevan\, Armenia\, and head of the Center for Independent Social Research Armenia\, also in Yerevan. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Russia\, Armenia\, Georgia\, the USA\, and Nagorno-Karabakh\, and has published on the issues of gender\, war\, migration\, memory\, and diaspora in the Caucasus and Russia. She has run the regional office of the Women in War Think Tank in Yerevan since 2015. She is deeply involved in Armenian-Azerbaijani regional and international peacemaking initiatives.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAhmad Alili is a researcher in international public policy and regional security of the South Caucasus\, the Eastern Partnership countries\, and neighboring regional powers. He is part of several peacebuilding initiatives supported by the EU\, UN\, and Partnership for Peace Consortium. Currently\, he is the director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre (CPAC)\, a Baku-based independent think tank promoting regional integration in the South Caucasus. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration on the role of nonstate actors in regional security\, geopolitics\, public management\, and good governance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArzu Geybulla is an Azerbaijani columnist and writer with a special focus on digital authoritarianism and its implications on human rights and press freedom. Arzu has written for Al Jazeera\, Eurasianet\, CODA\, Open Democracy\, and Radio Free Europe\, with a byline on CNN International. She is also a regional editor for the South Caucasus and Turkey at Global Voices. In the past\, Arzu has been involved in numerous cross-border confidence-building projects within the scope of the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation and other projects focusing on peaceful coexistence between Armenia and Azerbaijan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexander Iskandaryan is a prominent expert on politics\, nationalism\, and the contemporary history of Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eurasia. He is a political scientist and the Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia. He has authored numerous works on these topics\, presented papers\, and has talked at numerous conferences.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) is a Political Geographer and Professor at Virginia Tech’s campus in the greater Washington DC area. He is the author of Critical Geopolitics (1996) and coauthor of The Geopolitics Reader (1998\, 2006). He has published widely on geopolitics and territorial conflicts after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. He coauthored Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal (2011)\, wrote Near Abroad: Putin\, the West and the Contest for Ukraine and the Caucasus (2017)\, and has just finished Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (2024)\, all published by Oxford University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMODERATOR \n\n\n\n\nMikail Mamedov holds a PhD in History from Georgetown University\, where he is also a Lecturer in History and the Liberal Studies Program of the School of Continuing Studies. His multiethnic Azeri-Armenian family arrived in the US back in 1996\, in the wake of the outbreak of the Karabakh conflict. He holds an MA from The George Washington University and a Diploma in History from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has authored numerous articles on the history of the Caucasus\, and on contemporary literature and the Karabakh conflict.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/armenia-azerbaijan-relations-after-the-third-karabakh-war/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress on Central Asia: 
DESCRIPTION:Social and Political Processes in Central Asia amid Internal and External Shocks (hybrid event) \n\n\n\n\n\nSocial and political developments in Central Asia received greater attention following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\, in particular the immediate impacts of new migrant flows\, sanctions\, and Russia’s greater isolation from the West. However\, much of this analysis\, particularly in the media\, has covered the region only insofar as it illustrates reactions to the war in Ukraine\, rather than contextualizing the effects of recent events within a deeper understanding of processes already underway in Central Asia. \n\n\n\nThis panel will showcase new research on grassroots activism\, media use\, and intraregional relations in Central Asia. From Kazakhstan’s quasi-transition of power in 2019 and the rise of the Oyan Kazakhstan movement\, the yearslong impact of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Sadyr Japarov’s dramatic rise to the presidency in Kyrgyzstan in 2020\, unprecedented street violence in several Kazakhstani cities in January 2022 followed by a brief deployment of CSTO forces to the country\, Central Asian societies were already navigating a series of defining events each deserving of their own careful analysis even before February 2022.   \n\n\n\nThis panel will track how these developments and others\, including the war\, have shaped societies and states. Drawing on a range of data sources as well as disciplinary and professional perspectives\, this panel will also combine the insights of researchers from or currently living in Central Asia along with those of researchers with extensive field experience in the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPapers and Presenters \n\n\n\n\nCentral Asian Regional Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Context\n\n\n\n\nAizada Nuriddenova is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Department at Suleyman Demirel University in Kazakhstan and currently a Visiting Scholar at IERES. She holds a PhD in International Relations\, specializing in Chinese foreign policy\, from the School of International and Public Affairs at Jilin University in China. Her research interests are centered on Chinese foreign policy and regionalism in Central Asia. \n\n\n\n\nMedia Trends and Geopolitics: Changes in Central Asian Views of Outside Powers\n\n\n\n\nEli Adam Feiman\, US Department of State \n\n\n\n\nAttitudes toward Russia’s War on Ukraine in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan\n\n\n\n\nHannah S. Chapman is the Theodore P. Romanoff Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and an Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focus is on comparative political behavior with a substantive focus on public opinion and political communication in non-democracies and a regional focus on Russian and Central Asian politics.  \n\n\n\n\nHow Risks for Activists Differ Depending on their Gender: Accounts from Kazakhstan\,  Belarus\, Ukraine\, and Russia \n\n\n\n\nKarlygash Kabatova is Program Associate at the Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU. Her areas of research and advocacy are sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)\, gender education\, gender-based violence and civil activism. Karlygash founded UyatEmes.kz – an SRHR initiative in Kazakhstan.  \n\n\n\nDiscussants \n\n\n\nMarsha McGraw Olive\, Ph.D.\, is a scholar and practitioner of Russian and Eurasian affairs.  She is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins SAIS and serves on the advisory boards of the Caspian Policy Center and the Eurasia Foundation\, and as a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. \n\n\n\nCorby Johnson\, National Endowment for Democracy  \n\n\n\nChair  \n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/works-in-progress-on-central-asia/
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, room 505\, 1957 E Street\, NW\, Washington\, District of Columbia\, 20052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Central Asian Outlook: The Intersection of Trade and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Book talk with author Juneyoung Lee \n\n\n\n\n\nHybrid Event \n\n\n\nIn this event Dr. Juneyoung Lee will explore the intricate dynamics between trade liberalization\, cultural diversity\, and protection in Central Asia. Drawing from her book\, Culture and International Trade Law: From Conflict to Coordination\, and integrating anthropological and ethical perspectives\, she will conceptualize culture and its relevance within the realm of international trade. \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\n\nJuneyoung Lee is Legal Affairs Officer\, Trade and Environment Division\, World Trade Organization (WTO)\, and Adjunct Professor at the International Institute in Geneva. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttend in person  \n\n\n\nVoesar Conference Room\, Suite 412\, The Elliott School of International Affairs\, The George Washington University  \n\n\n\n1957 E St NW\, Washington\, 20052 United States
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asian-outlook-the-intersection-of-trade-and-culture-2/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Cross-Border Relations between Central Asia and Afghanistan in the Taliban Era
DESCRIPTION:Online event co-sponsored by The Kennan Institute \n\n\n\nThe border areas between the Central Asian states and Afghanistan have often been portrayed as regions prone to lawlessness\, violence\, and instability since the commencement of the “war on terror” initiated by US President George W. Bush’s administration in October 2001. The ascent to power of the Taliban in the summer of 2021 has further heightened concerns regarding the security situation in these areas. However\, among the six borders Afghanistan shares\, those with Uzbekistan\, Tajikistan\, and Turkmenistan have experienced fewer conflicts. This seminar will delve into the intricate cross-border dynamics between Central Asia and Afghanistan\, encompassing their political\, economic\, and social dimensions and the multifaceted challenges and opportunities inherent in the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		speakers\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMélanie Sadozaï is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IERES (2022–2023). Her research and publications are based on ethnographic methods and extensive fieldwork since 2014\, with a focus on cross-border relations in remote areas of Afghanistan and Tajikistan in the Pamir Mountains. Her research interests include everyday life along the border\, remoteness and connectivity in high mountain regions\, relations between the Taliban and other Central Asian governments\, and the geographical history of the border and the Pamirs. Dr. Sadozaï has published academic articles in the Journal of Borderlands Studies\, Problems of Post-Communism\, and the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNader Nadery is a seasoned leader with 22 years’ experience and is currently a senior fellow at the Wilson Center and a fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is also an associate fellow with Asser Institute Center for International & European Law. His background spans civil society\, the private sector\, institution-building\, government\, and research. He is an internationally known advocate for human rights and justice\, and has firsthand experience in peacemaking\, having participated in UN peace talks for Afghanistan in 2001\, track 1.5 peace processes for a number of years\, and the 2020–’21 peace talks between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban. Nadery has served as a commissioner of the Independent Human Rights Commission\, as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission\, and as senior advisor to the Afghan president on strategic affairs and human rights. Nadery’s views and writings regularly appear in major media outlets including the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, BBC\, CNN\, PBS\, and others.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarmak Pazhwak is a senior program officer working on Afghanistan and Central Asia for the United States Institute of Peace. Previously\, Pazhwak worked at the United Nations Development Program\, where he was the senior international adviser to the minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development of the government of Afghanistan. Before that\, he was director of program development and faculty with Southwestern University and Global College in Tucson\, Arizona\, where he developed the international development curriculum and taught courses. Pazhwak has over 30 years of experience in the design and management of peacebuilding\, humanitarian relief\, and socio-economic development programs with government\, nongovernmental organizations\, and the United Nations system in Afghanistan\, Central and South Asia\, and the Great Lakes region of Africa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		moderator\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and research Professor\, IERES\, George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cross-border-relations-between-central-asia-and-afghanistan-in-the-taliban-era/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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SUMMARY:Central Asian Migrants in Russia and Turkey: Migrant Legal Adaptation in Non-Democratic Contexts
DESCRIPTION:Book talk with authors Rustam Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev \n\n\n\n\n\nHybrid Event \n\n\n\nRustam Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev comparatively analyze the migration regimes of Russia and Turkey through the everyday experiences of Central Asian migrant workers. The authors contribute new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency\, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western\, non-democratic migration regimes. In their books\, they take the case study of Central Asian migrants in Russia and Turkey—two archetypal non-Western\, nondemocratic regimes and key migration hotspots—and investigate how migration governance outcomes are shaped by the informal power geometries and extralegal processes in physical and digital landscapes in which migrant workers\, employers\, middlemen\, landlords\, street world actors and street-level bureaucrats negotiate the contemporary migration system. This lively ethnography presents new empirical material\, a comparative perspective and methodological tools for studying migrants’ experiences and migration governance processes in non-Western migration regimes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\nRustam Urinboyev is an Associate Professor in the Sociology of Law Department\, Lund University\, Sweden. He is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar and works at the intersection of socio-legal studies\, migration studies\, legal pluralism\, informality and governance scholarships. Rustam has extensively published on migration\, corruption\, governance and penal institutions in the context of Central Asia\, Russia and Turkey. Rustam is the principal investigator of several projects (corruption\, legal pluralism\, legal culture\, administrative law reforms and many others) funded by the European Commission and Swedish Research Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSherzod Eraliev is a Senior Researcher at the Sociology of Law Department\, Lund University\, Sweden. He has been an Academy of Finland researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute\, University of Helsinki and has worked with international organisations in the development\, migration and humanitarian spheres. Sherzod’s research interests include migration\, informality\, civil society\, governance\, etc. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nKarlygash Kabatova is a Program Associate at the Central Asia Program\, IERES\, The George Washington University. Her areas of research and advocacy are youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education\, gender education\, gender based violence and civil activism. Karlygash is the founder of SRHR project in Kazakhstan UyatEmes.kz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttend in person  \n\n\n\nVoesar Conference Room\, Suite 412\, The Elliott School of International Affairs\, The George Washington University  \n\n\n\n1957 E St NW\, Washington\, 20052 United States
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asian-migrants-in-russia-and-turkey/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive
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