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Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia March 9, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and…

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Book Launch: March 5 – Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia

17 February, 2021

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…

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Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)

3 February, 2021

Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang February 3, 2021 Virtual discussion hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies…

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Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang

22 January, 2021

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…

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Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections

30 September, 2020

Moderator Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University Panelists Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University Azita Ranjbar, The Pennsylvania State University Vladimir Fedorenko, Rethink Institute Presidential elections will be held in Tajikistan on November…

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What’s Wrong in the Relationship Between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?

30 September, 2020

with Volker Jacoby, Former Human Rights Officer, UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia Volker Jacoby will shed light on the uneasy relationship between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and put it into the…

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Challenges to Freedom of Movement in Azerbaijan

1 August, 2018

By CAP CAP Paper 210, August 2018 Tural Aghayev is an Azerbaijani human rights lawyer. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Baku State University Law School in 2008. He subsequently…

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Countering Extremism vs. Freedom of Online Expression: The Case of Kazakhstan

29 January, 2018

By Anna Gussarova CAP Fellows Paper 201 (CAAF Fellows Papers), January 2018 Anna Gussarova is director and co-founder of the Central Asia Institute for Strategic Studies (www.caiss.expert). She previously served…

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Azerbaijan’s Suspended Democracy: Time For An International Reassessment

1 July, 2016

By Arzu Geybullayeva

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Cybersecurity in Central Asia: Real Issues, False Excuse?

8 June, 2012