with Svetlana Jacquesson, Director, Central Asian Studies Institute One 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… Continue reading Studying Central Asia: Looking at the Merits of ‘Eavesdropping’