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… Continue reading Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Video)
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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… Continue reading Book Launch: March 5 – Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)
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… Continue reading Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)
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… Continue reading Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang
Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections
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… Continue reading Lunch Roundtable: Tajik Presidential Elections
What’s Wrong in the Relationship Between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?
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… Continue reading What’s Wrong in the Relationship Between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?
Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University Margarita 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… Continue reading Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan
Challenges to Freedom of Movement in Azerbaijan
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… Continue reading Challenges to Freedom of Movement in Azerbaijan
Countering Extremism vs. Freedom of Online Expression: The Case of Kazakhstan
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… Continue reading Countering Extremism vs. Freedom of Online Expression: The Case of Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan’s Suspended Democracy: Time For An International Reassessment
By Arzu Geybullayeva
Cybersecurity in Central Asia: Real Issues, False Excuse?
Central Asia Policy Brief No. 2, June 2012 By Marlene Laruelle Kazakhstan is increasingly subjected to everyday cyber-insecurity. The main issue of cybersecurity in Central Asia is related to energy infrastructure and major industrial… Continue reading Cybersecurity in Central Asia: Real Issues, False Excuse?
