Elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: The Challenges of Retaining Power
On January 10, Kazakhstan held elections for its lower house while Kyrgyzstan held presidential elections and a national referendum...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: The Challenges of Retaining Power
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Central Asia Papers
Exit from a Sparse Hegemony: Central Asia’s Place in a Transforming Liberal International Order
As Joe Biden takes office, many people are optimistic that he can restore international confidence in the United States...
Russia and China’s Quiet Rivalry in Central Asia
How does the People’s Republic of China use multilateral institutions in Central Asia? In the 1990s and early 2000s,...
Russia and Central Asia: Putin’s Most Stable Region?
Central Asian-Russian relations have proven remarkably stable over Vladimir Putin's 20 years in power. This is the case even...
COVID-19’s Negative Effect on Democratization in Central Asia
Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting issues beyond public health. In Europe, for example, the crisis is...
Central Asia’s Force Majeure Fears: Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on China’s Natural Gas Supply Demands
China’s COVID-19 outbreak has seen Beijing’s demand for natural gas stutter, after years of breakneck expansion. In February, China's...
How is Central Asia Handling the COVID-19 Pandemic?
As the novel coronavirus (now classified as COVID-19) spreads around the world, Central Asia sits as a lonely region...
Russia’s Southern Strategy
The Russian Federation is pursuing an active and wide-ranging strategy to reassert and strengthen its dominant position in the...
Mirziyoyev’s Uzbekistan: Democratization or Authoritarian Upgrading?
Uzbekistan is undergoing a remarkable transformation. After decades of repression and isolation under President Islam Karimov, who died in...
More Politics than Substance: Three Years of Russian and Chinese Economic Cooperation in Central Asia
Over three years ago, in May 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that they...