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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140312T153000
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DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
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SUMMARY:The Unique Role of the American University of Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:The American University of Central Asia and the George Washington University’s Central Asia Program would like you to invite you to join us on March 12\, 2014. After the American and NATO pullout from Afghanistan\, AUCA will be one of the few remaining sustainable institutions in CentralAsia promoting free and critical thought. The purpose of the event is to raise the level of awareness about AUCA and the unique role it plays in the wider Central Asian region.   \n\nWith\nLynne Tracy\, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia\nAndrew Wachtel\, President\,AUCA\nAndrew Wilder\, vice president of South & Central Asia programs\, US Institute of Peace\n\n4:30 – 6:00 What Leaving Afghanistan Means for Central Asia\n\n6:00 – 7:00 Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-unique-role-of-the-american-university-of-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons Testing
DESCRIPTION:with Karipbek Kuyukov\, ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador and Artist\, and Roman Vassilenko\, Ambassador-at-Large\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan \nThe ATOM Project (Abolish Testing Our Mission) is an international campaign designed to do more than create awareness surrounding the human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons testing. The ATOM Project hopes to affect real and lasting change by engaging millions of global citizens to permanently stop nuclear weapons testing by joining together to show the world’s leaders that the world’s citizens deserve and demand a world without nuclear weapons testing. Karipbek Kuyukov is the Honorary Ambassador of the ATOM Project and a 2nd generation victim of Soviet nuclear tests\, acclaimed armless artist. Ambassador-at-Large Roman Vassilenko is a career diplomat\, who joined the foreign service in 1996. Prior to this\, he served as Deputy Director of the Nazarbayev Center\, a multifunctional state institution in 2012-2013\, and Chairman of the Committee for International Information\, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2009-2012. His overseas assignments include the U.K. and the U.S. \nThe George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs is one of the world’s leading schools of international affairs and the largest school of international affairs in the United States. Located in the heart of Washington\, D.C.\, its mission is to educate the next generation of international leaders\, conduct research that advances understanding of important global issues\, and engage the policy community in the United States and around the world. In the January/February 2012 issue of Foreign Policy\, the Elliott School of International Affairs’ undergraduate and master’s programs were ranked among the top ten international affairs programs in the United States by the Teaching\, Research\, and International Policy (TRIP) survey.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/towards-a-world-without-nuclear-weapons-testing/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140224T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140225T000000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:The Second Central Asia Security Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Security Workshop to celebrate the two year anniversary of the CentralAsia Program. We will discuss the current state of affairs in Central Asia and offer a fresh look at the main policy issues\, including the future of the US Silk Road Strategy in the wake of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the stakes of forthcoming presidential successions in Uzbekistan andKazakhstan. The Workshop will also explore what the Program considers as key societal and political issues that will shape the future of Central Asia\, i.e. the small and medium business circles. For its anniversary the Program is launching a new web initiative\, the Uzbekistan Initiative\,which will be presented first at this Workshop. The country’s history and culture\, its geographic allocation at the heart of Central Asia\, and its booming demography and economic potential shape the overall picture of the region and its strategic weight. However\, Uzbekistan has increasingly become a kind of ‘black hole’ in terms of scholarly and policy-oriented analysis. The goal of this Initiative is to create an apolitical platform of discussion for knowledge exchanges that promote Uzbekistan beyond the divergences in assessing its current course.\n—\n\n8:30               Breakfast and Registration \n9:00               Introductory Remarks by Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program \n9:15-10:45   Session I. Lessons Learned and Unlearned for the US Silk Road Strategy \nChair and Moderator: Peter Rollberg (George Washington University) \nAlexander Diener (The University of Kansas) \nMobilities and Immobilities in Central Eurasia: A Geographical Perspective on the New Silk Road \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \n“Silk Road”: Historical Metaphor\, Ideology\, Wishful Thinking? \nGael Raballand (Choiseul Institute) and Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University) \nAn Economic Assessment of the Potentialities of the US Silk Road \n10:45-11:15 Coffee-break \n11:15-12:45 Session II. Presidential successions. Real and False Stakes \nChair and Moderator: Cory Welt (George Washington University) \nEric McGlinchey (George Mason University) \nGoodbye Karimov\, Hello Status Quo \nSean Roberts (George Washington University) \nNur-Otan as a Vehicle for Presidential Succession: Turkey’s CHP or Russia’s Yedinaya Rossiya?” \nMyles Smith (Media Sustainability Index at IREX) \nThe Stakes of Successions: Turkmenistan and Elite Redistribution \n12.45-1:30   Lunch \n1:30-3:00     Session III. Peeking behind the Iron Curtain: Uzbekistan in 2014 and Beyond \nChair and Moderator: David Abramson (State Department) \nRoundtable Discussion: \nLaura Adams (Harvard University)\, Sarah Kendzior (Al-Jazeera English services)\, Lawrence Markowitz (Rowan University)\, and Noah Tucker (Managing Editor\, Registan.net) \n3:15-3:45     Coffee-break \n3:45-5:15     Session IV. The Missing Piece: Small and Medium Business Circles \nChair and Moderator: Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University) \nGul Berna Özcan (University of London) \nThe Political and Moral Economy of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Central Asia \nRegine Spector (University of Massachusetts) \nMade in Kyrgyzstan: The Reassembling of Apparel Manufacturing in a    Peripheral State \nAlexander Libman (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) \nThe Small and Medium-sized Enterprises world in Kazakhstan and the Implications of the Customs Union \n\n—\n\n 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-second-central-asia-security-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T213000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Luna Papa
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Bakhtiyar Khudhoinazarov (Tajikistan\, 1999)\nThe unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17\, beautiful and vivacious\, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe\, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise\, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort\, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer\, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures. – Written by Steve Shelokhonov[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-luna-papa/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17199-1391502600-1391531400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Addressing Soft Security Challenges in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Kazakhstan has already taken the regional leadership on soft security issues in the whole Central Asian region. This conference will discuss the region’s main soft security issues: water management\, regulating migrations and refugees flows\, developing disaster preparedness and reaction to climate change. It will bring together scholars and experts to offer a full panorama of the soft security situation and the way Kazakhstan can address these challenges. \n9:00 AM Opening\, Yerkin Akhinzhanov\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Embassy of Kazakhstan \n9:15-10:15 AM Keynote speaker: Johannes Linn (Brookings Institution)\nQ&A \n10:15 – 11:15 AM The Water/Energy Nexus and its Regional Dimension\nChair: Kamiljon Akramov (International Food Policy Research Institute) \nKathleen Kuehnast (US Institute of Peace)\nWhose rules rule? Water and Energy in Central Asia \nKai Wegerich (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)\nWater security in the Syr Darya \n11:15 – 11:30 PM Coffee-break\n\n11:30 – 12:30 PM Natural Disaster and Climate Change Preparedness \nChair: Kai Wegerich (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) \nWilliam Brown (Brookings Institution)\nImplications of Climate Change for Kazakhstan \nReinhard Bodemeyer (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit GIZ)\nLocal coping strategies – the neglected option in tackling climate change in Central Asia \n12:30 – 1:15 PM Lunch  \n1:15 – 2:15 PM Strategies and Challenges of ensuring Food Security in Central Asia \nChair: Marlene Laruelle (GWU) \nKamiljon Akramov (International Food Policy Research Institute)\nAgricultural transformation and food security challenges in Central Asia \nSebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, George Washington University)\nFood policy in Kazakhstan: domestic stakes\, regional consequences \n2:15 – 2:30 PM Coffee-break \n2:30 – 3:30 PM Kazakhstan as a Eurasian Crossroads. Managing MigrationChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (GWU) \nDejan Kedserovic (International Organization for Migration)\nMigration and Development Nexus Case in Kazakhstan \nMarlene Laruelle (IERES\, George Washington University)\nKazakhstan as a Migration Pole: Regional Opportunities\, Domestic Challenges \n3:30 – 4:30 PM Reception \nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW gratefully funded by the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington D.C.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/addressing-soft-security-challenges-in-kazakhstan-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17346-1390505400-1390512600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: Daughter in law
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Khodjakuli Narliev (Turkmenistan\, 1972)\nA woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family\, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband\, a heroic pilot\, might return one day. –Originally posted on IMDB[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-daughter-in-law/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140121T053000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140121T070000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17253-1390282200-1390287600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Environment\, Human Rights and Oil Development in Turkmenistan
DESCRIPTION:with Kate Watters\, Co-Founder and Executive Director\, Crude Accountability \nKate Watters will discuss the links between environmental and human rights violations and oil and gas development in Turkmenistan\, one of the world’s most opaque and authoritarian countries. She will focus on the various responses of international financial institutions\, multi-national oil companies and western governments to Turkmenistan’s official policies\, and discuss the role of civil society in highlighting and uncovering environmental and human rights abuses.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/environment-human-rights-and-oil-development-in-turkmenistan/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140108T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140207T000000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17359-1389139200-1391731200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Visions of Uzbekistan
DESCRIPTION:Visions of Uzbekistan\nA Visual Exploration\nJanuary 8 – February 7\, 2014\nOpening event on Thursday\, January 16 at 4:00 p.m.\nFeaturing Muzaffar Madrahimov\, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Uzbekistan and Marlene Laruelle\, Director of the Central Asia Program\, IERES \n\nUzbekistan is located in the heart of Central Asia\, neighboring world civilizations such as China\, Persia\, and India\, and connected to the Turkic world and to Europe via Russia. The territory of modern Uzbekistan hosted the prestigious ancient civilizations of Bactria\, Sogdiana\, Parthia\, and Khorezm\, and was traversed by caravans carrying precious silk\, gold\, porcelain\, and spices along the Great Silk Road. These ancient civilizations invented sophisticated irrigation techniques\, inspired the canons of Islamic culture in the 9th-10th centuries\, and were at the center of a vast empire created by Tamerlane in the 15th century. They made major contributions to science and literature through geniuses such as Avicenna\, Alisher Navoi\, Ulugbek\, Al-Khorezmi\, Al-Beruni\, Al-Farghoni\, Imam Al-Bukhary\, and others. Present-day Uzbekistan benefits from this past\, offering the most accomplished architectural heritage in Central Asia. Since the country’s independence in 1991\, Uzbek society aims to combine modernity with the rediscovery of its past and to integrate its historical legacy into a larger\, globalized framework. The photo exhibition Visions of Uzbekistan reflects both the ancient culture and the modern life of the Uzbek people and introduces the culture of Uzbekistan to the United States audience.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/visions-of-uzbekistan-2/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131216T193000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17292-1387213200-1387222200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The Central Asia Program and SIPRI North America have the pleasure to invite you to the Second Central Asia Fellowship Seminar. The seminar will be followed by a reception.\n\nWith\n\nSardar Bagishbekov\, Central Asia Fellow (Kyrgyzstan)\nEnsuring Freedom from State Violence in the Kyrgyz Republic\nYevgeniya Pak\, Central Asia Fellow (Uzbekistan)\nExit Visa Regime in Uzbekistan: Regime Interests versus Freedom of Individuals\n\nDiscussants:\nErica Marat\, Visiting Scholar\, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\nEric Lohr\, Director of Initiative for Russian Culture\, American University
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-second-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T213000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T194012Z
UID:17344-1386876600-1386883800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: White Mountains
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Melis Ubukeev (Kyrgyzstan\, 1964)\nMukash is chased by officials\, learns of the devastation of war from a blind woman and helps her daughter to freedom beyond the river crossing\, he\, having to choose a tragic solution.-Taken from MUBI.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-white-mountains/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193924Z
UID:17205-1384792200-1384797600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:Marlene Laruelle\, George Washington University \nMargarita Assenova\, Jamestown Foundation \nAnara Ibraeva\, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law \nThe Central Asia Program will be debating Kazakhstan’s rapidly changing social landscape by discussing the relationship between social problems and civil society issues. The speakers will investigate the regional diversity\, labor disputes and social problems\, and human rights issues\, and actions taken to address these issues by the central authorities.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/debating-social-issues-and-civil-society-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
UID:17220-1384518600-1384524000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Foreign Policy Doctrine and the Actions of Uzbekistan
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Farkhod Tolipov\, Director of the Non-Governmental Education and Research Institution“Bilim Karvoni”\n\nThe Republic of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy has undergone dramatic fluctuations since gaining independence\, from a pro-American extreme to a pro-Russian one and back again. Such a “pendulum” swing of the newly independent Central Asian state reflects its two ambivalent and interrelated stances: Tashkent’s perception of the international system as an old stage of power politics – somewhat a Soviet syndrome – and an uncertain geopolitical situation that emerged in Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The operation in Afghanistan further confused the doctrinal foundation of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy\,revealing the lack of Tashkent’s strategic perspective. As a result\, Uzbekistan took rather isolationist tactics in the region instead of a long-awaited pro-active strategy.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/foreign-policy-doctrine-and-the-actions-of-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193924Z
UID:17342-1384457400-1384464600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: You Are Not an Orphan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Directed by Shukrat Abbasov (Uzbekistan\, 1963)\nThe film is a touching story about an Uzbek family who gave shelter to 14 children evacuated during the World War II while their own child was at the battlefronts. The film depicts how children of different nationalities learn to live together as one family as it also brings out ‘Uzbek’ social values.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-you-are-not-an-orphan/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T153000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17263-1384419600-1384443000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Central Asia\, Iran\, and the Nuclear Landscape in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies’ Rising Powers Initiative\n\n9:00 – 9:30 AM Registration and Breakfast\n\n9:30 – 9:45 AM Welcoming Remarks by Douglas Shaw\, Associate Dean for Planning\, Research and External Relations\, GWU\n\n9:45 – 11:15 AM Panel I. Asia’s Changing Nuclear Landscape\n\nChair: Douglas Shaw\, Associate Dean for Planning\, Research andExternal Relations\, GWU\n\nJapan’s Nuclear Tremors: Domestic Debates about Energy & Security after 3/\nMike Mochizuki\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nChina’s Nuclear Priorities–Implications for Iran and Central Asia\nRobert Sutter\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nIndia’s Evolving Nuclear Discourse and Search for Policy Coherence\nDeepa Ollapally\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\n11:15 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break\n\n11:30 – 1:00PM Panel II. The Iranian Question and its Regional Environment\n\nChair: Cory Welt\, Ponars Eurasia\, IERES\, GWU\n\nIran’s Nuclear Ambitions:  US and Israeli Threat Perceptions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanne Nolan\, Elliott School of International Affairs\, GWU\n\nPartners or Rivals? Contextualizing the Russian-Iranian Nuclear Relationship\nJeff Mankoff\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)\nCentral Asia’s Viewpoint on being in Iran’s Vicinity\nMarlene Laruelle\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU\n\n1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch\n\n2:00 – 3:30 PM Panel III. Central Asia’s Nuclear Strategies and Challenges\n\nChair: Deepa Ollapally\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, GWU\n\nManaging Radioactive Waste in Central Asia: Successes and Challenges\nDauren Aben\, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies\, Almaty\n\nKazakhstan in the Global Nuclear Order: Carving Out a Role That Matters\nTogzhan Kassenova\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\nNuclear Domestic Debates in Kazakhstan: Public Opinion and Expert Controversies\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU\n\n3:30 PM Wrap–up\n\nThe Sigur Center gratefully acknowledges the support of the John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation for this conference.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/central-asia-iran-and-the-nuclear-landscape-in-asia/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131106T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131106T180000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17202-1383728400-1383760800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Kazakh Culture: Legacies and Innovations
DESCRIPTION:9:00 AM OpeningPeter Rollberg\, Director\, IERES\, George Washington University\nAmbassador Kairat Umarov\, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States \n9:15-10.30 AM Keynote speaker\nAmbassador Olzhas Suleymenov\, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to UNESCO \nQ&A \n10:30-11:00 AM Coffee-break \n11:00 – 12:30 PM Legacies and Innovations in Kazakh Literature\nChair: Marlene Laruelle (IERES\, George Washington University) \nAn inconvenient Sage. The Legacy of Abai\nPeter Rollberg (IERES\, George Washington University) \nKazakh Literature in the 19th Century: The Case of the Zar Zaman Poets\nGabriel McGuire (Nazarbaev University) \n  \n‘Imagining Community’ in Soviet Kazakhstan. An Historical Analysis of Narrative on Nationalism in Soviet Kazakh Literature\nDiana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge University) \n12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch \n1:30 – 2:30 PM Politics and Society On the Screen\nChair: Peter Rollberg (IERES\, George Washington University) \nKazakh Cinema through the Looking Glass\nMichael Rouland (Georgetown University) \nThe Kazakh Cinema Industry. A View from the Inside\nGaukhar Noortas (Mount Helix Films Inc.) \n2:30 – 3:30 PM Performing Music and Identity\nChair: Sean Roberts (George Washington University) \nDiscussing Kazakh Musical Identity\nAlma Kunanbaeva (Stanford University) \nFriction and Flows: Transnationalism and Aesthetics of Musical Performance\nMargarethe Adams (Stony Brook University) \n3:30 – 3:45 PM Coffee-break \n3:45 – 4.45 PM The Art Scene: Plurality and Market\nChair: Sebastien Peyrouse (IERES\, George Washington University) \nThe Contemporary Art Scene in Kazakhstan\nKendal Henry (Public Art Consultant\, CEC Artslink) \nArt of the Daily Life: The Artpologist Collective and the Influences of Kazakhstan\nDaniel Gallegos (Artist and co-founder of The Artpologist Collective) \n4:45 – 6:00 PM Reception\nDombra performance by Olzhas Bayalbayev \nThe Kazakhstan Initiative at GW is gratefully funded by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/kazakh-culture-legacies-and-innovations/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections
DESCRIPTION:Moderator\nMarlene Laruelle\, George Washington University\nPanelists\nEric McGlinchey\, George Mason University\nAzita Ranjbar\, The Pennsylvania State University\nVladimir Fedorenko\, Rethink Institute\nPresidential elections will be held in Tajikistan on November 6\, 2013. Despite large control by the authorities over the political landscape\, secular andIslamic opposition were able to unify behind a common figure from the human rights sector. Our roundtable will go beyond the strictly electoral event to discuss the main drivers of political and social changes in Tajikistan\,especially the role of Islam in the public space\, questions of social justice\, and migrations\, to offer a more accurate picture of this key Central Asian state.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/lunch-roundtable-tajik-presidential-elections/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17340-1382034600-1382041800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Cinema Club Film Screening: The Story of the Weeping Camel
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni (Mongolia\, 2003) \nIn Mongolia’s Gobi desert\, a camel belonging to a group of nomadic shepherds gives birth to a white calf. It’s a rare occurrence\, and the shepherds watch as the unusually-colored offspring is rejected by its mother. Without its mother’s milk\, the calf will die. To save its life\, the nomads send two boys (Enkhbulgan Ikhbayar\, Uuganbaatar Ikhbayar) on a journey across the desert to find a musician in the village whose song may compel the camel to accept its calf. –Taken from IMDB.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/cinema-club-film-screening-the-story-of-the-weeping-camel/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T134500
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17290-1382013000-1382017500@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Beyond Pakistan: New Delhi's Policy Toward Afghanistan and Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Rising Powers Initiative \nwith Jean-Luc Racine\, Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow\,School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences\, Paris\n\nDr. Jean-Luc Racine is Emeritus CNRS Senior Fellow\, working at the Centre for South AsianStudies\, at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris. He is also theDirector of the Science Policy at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme\, and Vice-President of the Paris-based think tank Asia Centre (www.centreasia.eu). His research is focused onthree correlated issues: the dynamics of transformation of contemporary India; India’s foreignand security policies and its attempts at reshaping the new world order; and geopolitics of SouthAsia\, particularly its most sensitive issues: Pakistan strategic paradigm\, India-Pakistan relations andKashmir.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/beyond-pakistan-new-delhis-policy-toward-afghanistan-and-central-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131016T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17250-1381941000-1381946400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Family Business: Turkmenistan Economy Starts to Look Like its Neighbors
DESCRIPTION:with Myles Smith\,  Senior Program Officer and Assistant Managing Editor for the Media\, Sustainability Index at IREX \nTurkmenistan’s business sector has evolved during the short reign of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. What was once the province of a small handful of foreignbusinessmen with close personal relationships with first president Niyazov is now aslightly more open field. The first family and new patrons are prying openopportunities for Turkmenistan-based businesses. Meanwhile\, old favorites like Itera\, MTC\, and Bouygues have struggled to maintain their positions. What are the implications for Turkmenistan’s economy and political system\, and what does this shift preface about Turkmenistan’s future development.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-family-business-turkmenistan-economy-starts-to-look-like-its-neighbors/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131007T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17234-1381159800-1381165200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Studying Central Asia: Looking at the Merits of 'Eavesdropping'
DESCRIPTION:with Svetlana Jacquesson\, Director\, Central Asian Studies Institute \nOne of the most striking features of Central Asian Studies\, as Western scholars have practiced it since the fall of the Soviet Union\, is the absence of structured and meaningful debates. Publications proliferate on a given topics\, but they rarely engage in a dialogue. The debate on “clan politics” waged among political scientists\, anthropologists and historians between 2005 and 2010\, is the exception that proves the rule. In this talk\, Svetlana Jacquesson will use the “clan politics” debate in order to show that Central Asia\, as marginal as it might appear in mainstream social sciences debates\, is not that easy to crack and that we have to be patient eavesdroppers instead of agenda-driven scholars. She will then relate clan assemblies to the “clan politics” debate in order to highlight some paradoxes of knowledge production on Central Asia. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/studying-central-asia-looking-at-the-merits-of-eavesdropping/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T173000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17300-1379001600-1379007000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Looking Ahead: US-Central Eurasia Security Relations
DESCRIPTION:Join the Central Asia Program\, the Center for International Policy\, and leading Eurasia analysts for a discussion on the current status of US-Central Eurasia security relations to mark the launch of theSecurity Assistance Monitor\, an online resource of the United States’ defense and security relationships around the world.  The Security Assistance Monitor is a new\, comprehensive online resource that provides information and answers questions about the US security and defense relationships around the world.  Formerly known as Just the Facts\, a project which focused on US security assistance to Latin America\, the Security Assistance Monitor is an expanded resource of searchable statistics\, data\, upcoming events\,and related information on US security and defense priorities for Central Eurasia\, the Middle East\,and Africa. 
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/looking-ahead-us-central-eurasia-security-relations/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T130000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17207-1378985400-1378990800@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The ATOM project exhibit and art show
DESCRIPTION:To Mark the International Day Against Nuclear Tests Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Kairat Umarov and GW’s Central Asia Program have the honor to invite you to attend The ATOM project exhibit and art show.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-atom-project-exhibit-and-art-show/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130828T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130828T190000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17288-1377705600-1377716400@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:The Inaugural Central Asia Fellowship Seminar
DESCRIPTION:4:00 pm. Registration\n\n4.15pm. Welcome Chantal de Jonge Oudraat\, Executive Director\, SIPRI-North America\n \n4:30-6:00 pm. Fellows Presentations and Discussion:\n\nAitolkyn Kourmanova\, Central Asia Fellow (Kazakhstan)\nRegional Cooperation in Central Asia: Nurturing from the Ground\n\nSafovudin Jaborov\, Central Asia Fellow (Tajikistan)\nRadicalization of Youth in Tajikistan: Causes\, Consequences\, and Addressing the Challenges\n\nDiscussants:\nRoss Wilson\, Director\, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center\, Atlantic Council \nSanaam Naraghi-Anderlini Co-Founder of International Civil Society Action Network(ICAN)\, and Senior Fellow\, MIT Center for International Studies\nChair: Marlene Laruelle\, Director\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\n\n6:00 pm. Reception
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/the-inaugural-central-asia-fellowship-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130605T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130605T170000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17223-1370444400-1370451600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Digital Memory and a 'Massacre': Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
DESCRIPTION:with Sarah Kendzior\, Al Jazeera English and Noah Tucker\, Courage Services and Registan.net\n\nThe speakers will examine the transnational effort by ethnic Uzbeks to document the June 2010 violence and mobilize international support\, first for intervention to stop the conflict and then in an effort to defend minority rights and preserve evidence of alleged injustices suffered by the community in Kyrgyzstan. These efforts were made possible primarily by new forms of digitalcommunication and social media. Instant\, global communication made the plight of Uzbeks in Southern Kyrgyzstan an issue of broad resonance for the wider ethnic community in a way that similar outbreaks of civil or state violence had never been in the past and facilitated the re-imagining of other late- and post-Soviet historical conflicts to fit new ethnic narratives. Combining analysis of digital media\, art\, and documentation with recent ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Kyrgyzstan\,they will address questions about how permanent “digital memory” of violence shapes the process of conflict resolution and re-adapting to post-conflict everyday life\, and how narratives produced by the global community-most of whom did not experience the conflict itself-shape\, and sometimes conflict with\, collective memory and understanding of the conflict for those who actually experienced it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 / 1
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/digital-memory-and-a-massacre-post-soviet-uzbek-identity-in-the-age-of-social-media/
CATEGORIES:Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130529T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130529T123000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17209-1369825200-1369830600@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Traps of Political Succession in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:with \nDosym Satpayev\, Director\, Non-governmental Consulting Organization “Risks Assessment Group” \nTolganay Umbetaliyeva\, Director General\, Public Fund “Central Asian Foundation for Democracy” \nAndrey Chebotarev\, Director\, “Alternative” Center for Topical Studies \nRasul Zhumaly\, Lecturer\, S. Demirel University \nAidos Sarym\, Vice president\, Public Fund “Abay-a)parat” \nZamir Karazhan\, Kazakh political observer \nOn the occasion of the publication of the new book The Twilight Zone: Traps of the Transition Era\, the Central Asia Program is happy to invite you for a video-discussion with the Almaty-based authors.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/traps-of-political-succession-in-kazakhstan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130513T173000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193516Z
UID:17249-1368460800-1368466200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Legal Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment in the Gold Mining Sector of the Kyrgyz Republic: Towards a Path to Sustainable Environmental Development
DESCRIPTION:with Begaiym Esenkulova\, American University of Central Asia\, Kyrgyzstan \nBegaiym Esenkulova is an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Central Asia\,Kyrgyzstan\, an S.J.D. candidate at the Central European University\, Hungary\, and is currently aColumbia University visiting scholar. She will be discussing the legal aspects of FDI in the gold mining sector in Kyrgyzstan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/legal-aspects-of-foreign-direct-investment-in-the-gold-mining-sector-of-the-kyrgyz-republic-towards-a-path-to-sustainable-environmental-development/
CATEGORIES:Economic Forum,Events Archive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130507T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193211Z
UID:17224-1367940600-1367946000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:What's Wrong in the Relationship Between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?
DESCRIPTION:with Volker Jacoby\, Former Human Rights Officer\, UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia \n \nVolker Jacoby will shed light on the uneasy relationship between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and put it into the broader regional context of Central Asia. He will talk about the water/energy nexus in the region and the struggle over the Rogun Hydropower station project in Tajikistan\, the conflict over the Farhad water reservoir\, TALCO\, border delimitation\, railroad connections and other strains between the two neighbors. He will also elaborate on necessity and prospects of cooperation in the region\, with a view also towards the withdrawal of international combat forces from Afghanistan.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/whats-wrong-in-the-relationship-between-tajikistan-and-uzbekistan/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,Uzbekistan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130502T050000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
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SUMMARY:Afghanistan after 2014
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Kennan Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ South Asia Center.\nSpotlight on Central Eurasia Speaker Series  \nThis event explores local and regional perspectives on the future of Afghanistan against the backdrop of the planned United States withdrawal of military forces from the region. The first session focuses on local politics and governance in Afghanistan\, and the second session investigates the ways in which Afghanistan’s neighbors have been discussing and planning for the upcoming changes.                                                                                                                           \n2:00-3:15 pm       Views from Within Afghanistan \nNoah Coburn (Bennington College)\, “Elections and the Hazards of Transition: Voting and Local Governance in Afghanistan” author of Bazaar Politics: Pottery and Power in an Afghan Market Town (2011) \n3:15-3:30 pm       Coffee Break \n3:30-5:00 pm       Views from Afghanistan’s Neighbors \nSimbal Khan (Institute of Strategic Studies\, Islamabad\, Pakistan and Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow)\, “Pakistan’s Strategy on Afghanistan: Between Dodging Bullets and Moderating Outcomes” \nMarlene Laruelle (George Washington University)\, “A “regional solution” for Afghanistan? Perspectives from Afghanistan’s Northern Neighbors” \nCo-sponsors:  \nGeorge Washington University’s Central Asia Program \nWilson Center’s South Asia Program \nThe Spotlight on Central Eurasia Speaker Series\, hosted by the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute\, aims to inform Washington\, DC-based scholars and practitioners of the latest research on a range of topics and from a variety of disciplines impacting the future of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/afghanistan-after-2014/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130430T193000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T161922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17210-1367341200-1367350200@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film
DESCRIPTION:Discussion on Kazakh Cinema \nIntroduction: Peter Rollberg\, Director\, IERES\, GWU \nKazakh Cinema in an Historical Perspective: from Perestroika to Post-Borat Time\nJean Radvanyi\, Professor\, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures\, Paris\, France \nPolitics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film\nMichael Rouland\, co-editor of Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories (I.B.Tauris\, 2013) \nFilm Screening (7:00-8:30 pm)- Killer (1998)\, by Darezhan Omirbaev\nWinner of the ‘Un Certain Regard Award’ at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival \nSince the fall of the Soviet Union\, Kazakhstan’s film industry has experienced major changes along with the rest of a Kazakh society. Through movies\, Kazakh film-makers have been able to explore the new dimensions of their society and begin to create a new cultural history. This event will be a discussion on Kazakh cinema and its role in Kazakh society as it reexamines past events and their narratives. We will then be showing Killer\, Darzehan Omirbaev’s award winning film.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/politics-and-cinema-divergence-in-post-soviet-central-asian-film/
CATEGORIES:Cinema Club,Cultures and Societies,Events Archive,Kazakhstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130416T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130416T183000
DTSTAMP:20260926T044751
CREATED:20200930T162120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T193925Z
UID:17323-1366125300-1366137000@centralasiaprogram.org
SUMMARY:American and European Policies in Central Asia: Similarities and Divergence
DESCRIPTION:Panel 1: Debating Similarities and Divergences in European and American Policies Toward Central Asia (3:15-4:45)\nJos Boonstra\, Senior Researcher\, Head of EUCAM programme\, FRIDE\, Brussels\nAlexander Cooley\, Tow Professor\, Barnard College\, New York \nJeff Goldstein\, Senior policy analyst for Eurasia\, Open Society Foundations\nSebastien Peyrouse\, Research Professor\, Central Asia Program\, GWU\n \nPanel 2: European and American Policy Priorities in Central Asia(5:00-6:30)\nPatricia Flor\, EU Special Representative for Central Asia\, European External Action Service\nLynne Tracy\, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs\n\nThe seminar aims to build on the existing dialogue among experts and policy-makers from the two sides of the Atlantic\, with the goal of finding pragmatic policy solutions and converging the objectives of the two actors in the region. While there is a general consensus that the objectives ofEurope and the U.S in Central Asia are similar\, the methodologies in perusing those objectives differ. What are the priorities of the two actors in the run up to 2014 and beyond in the view of the value-based approach versus security constraints linked to the 2014 draw-down from Afghanistan. More information can be found at http://go.gwu.edu/EUUS.
URL:https://centralasiaprogram.org/event/american-and-european-policies-in-central-asia-similarities-and-divergence/
CATEGORIES:Events Archive,The Policy Debate
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