environmental – Central Asia Program

By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez Wilder Alejandro Sanchez is an analyst who covers geopolitical, trade, and defense issues in the post-Soviet world and the Western Hemisphere. He has analyzed Kazakhstan’s foreign policy…

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Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin

16 March, 2021

Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin March 16, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for…

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Book Launch: March 15 – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin

3 March, 2021

Pipe Dreams explores the ways in which both the tsarist and Soviet regimes used fantasies of bringing the deserts to life as a means of claiming legitimacy in Central Asia,…

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The Other Side of Oil

19 November, 2020

George Washington University’s Central Asia Program and Crude Accountability present, “The Other Side of Oil,” a documentary film, which raises important issues of environmental degradation, social justice, and poverty. Through…