politics – Central Asia Program

Since the breakup of the Eastern bloc, Central Asia has been analyzed primarily through the prism of hard power and the great powers’ geopolitical and geostrategic games in the region.…

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Representing Cultural Diversity in Russia. The Eurovision contest and Manizha’s “Russian Woman” Performance

23 April, 2021

Photo: MANIZHA on Instagram The nomination of Manizha Sangin, a Russian singer of Tajik origin, for the EurovisionSong Contest seems to have come as a surprise to everyone. On the…

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Disabling Public Discontent: The 2021 Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan

5 February, 2021

By Serik Beimenbetov Serik Beimenbetov is a post-doctoral research fellow and senior lecturer at the Kazakh-German University in Almaty. He completed his PhD at the Department of Political Science and…

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Studying Central Asia: Looking at the Merits of ‘Eavesdropping’

30 September, 2020

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…

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Politics and Cinema: Divergence in Post-Soviet Central Asian Film

30 September, 2020

Discussion on Kazakh Cinema Introduction: Peter Rollberg, Director, IERES, GWU Kazakh Cinema in an Historical Perspective: from Perestroika to Post-Borat Time Jean Radvanyi, Professor, National Institute for Oriental Languages and…