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Book Launch: March 5 – Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that…
Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang
More than a million -- some say 3 million -- Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been arbitrarily detained and imprisoned in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2016. China…
Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington UniversityMargarita Assenova, Jamestown Foundation Anara Ibraeva, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law The Central Asia Program will be debating Kazakhstan’s rapidly changing…
