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Kazakhstan’s crackdown is a frightening formula for authoritarians
Read the full article in the hill “Crises like the brutal crackdown in Kazakhstan show that Moscow and Beijing can work under pressure together efficiently and get the outcome they desire. It’s a...
View ArticleD’Anieri in The Diplomat on how Central Asian states can protect themselves...
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Exploring non-traditional export markets: Pakistan and the Central Asian...
Pakistan’s exports have historically been inclined towards western economies, China, and the Gulf Cooperation Council region. However, the country now seeks to explore new export markets including the...
View ArticleNot just Russian oligarchs: Britain must block Kazakhstan’s kleptocrats from...
Long synonymous with Sherlock Holmes, the building at 221B Baker Street in London now represents a tragic irony: The fictional crime-fighter’s address has been linked to the kleptocratic regime of...
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Gadzala Tirziu in The New York Sun on Turkmenistan’s geopolitical significance
original source On March 18, Scowcroft Center nonresident senior fellow Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu published a piece in The New York Sun on Turkmenistan’s strategic location at the crossroads of...
View ArticleCohen quoted in the National Interest: U.S. sanctions on Russia should not...
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Kazakhstan cancels Victory Day in protest over Putin’s Ukraine War
With Russia currently waging war in Ukraine, traditional Victory Day events on May 9 took on added symbolic significance. This holiday marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany has become central...
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Putin’s only friend: Belarus is Russia’s last remaining post-Soviet ally
Alyaksandr Lukashenka just may be Vladimir Putin’s last remaining ally in the former Soviet space. At a May 16 summit meeting in Moscow to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Collective Security...
View ArticleGraham cited in International Banker on the lack of incentives in the US-led...
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Goodwill gestures and de-Nazification: Decoding Putin’s Ukraine War lexicon
Ever since Russian troops first crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24, the Kremlin has employed characteristically euphemistic language in order to downplay the criminal nature of the unfolding...
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Putin’s Russian Empire is collapsing like its Soviet predecessor
As Vladimir Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine continues to unravel, growing numbers of Western experts are predicting the breakup of the Russian Federation itself. While Russia may yet survive...
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Putin’s nuclear ultimatum is a desperate bid to freeze a losing war
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the international community with a nuclear ultimatum on September 21 as he dramatically raised the stakes in his faltering Ukraine invasion. In a rare...
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Vladimir Putin has little reason to celebrate on his seventieth birthday
Vladimir Putin marks his seventieth birthday on October 7 but the Russian ruler has little reason to celebrate. For much of his 22-year reign, Putin has been credited with rejuvenating Russia and...
View ArticleArslan joins TRT World to discuss the themes of the Atlantic Council’s...
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View ArticleAtlantic Council’s Regional Clean Energy Outlook Conference covered by...
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View ArticleHow the West can help build Kazakh democracy
This month, Kazakhs head to the polls to vote in a snap presidential election. Although the eventual winner of that election is not in doubt, the global reaction to it will have repercussions far...
View ArticleWebster in China-Russia Report: The PRC protests and the ROC elections
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As Putin retreats in Ukraine, he is also losing Kazakhstan
Russia’s carefully choreographed political talk shows are notorious for their anti-Ukrainian invective, but in late November the target was Kazakhstan. “We must pay attention to the fact that...
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Russia must stop being an empire if it wishes to prosper as a nation
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the Russian Federation embraced more or less exactly the same imperial identity that the Bolsheviks had inherited from their Czarist predecessors generations earlier....
View ArticleWebster in The China Project: Mongolian coal anti-corruption protests draw...
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Europe and the Caspian: The gas supply conundrum
There is a conundrum at the heart of European-Caspian energy relations: the politics are nearly in place, but project deliverability is not. Europe wants to secure substantial volumes of gas from...
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Vladimir Putin: 2022 Loser of the Year
For the first time since the event was launched a decade ago, Vladimir Putin will not hold his flagship end-of-year press marathon this month. The surprise cancellation is the latest indication that...
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Turkey learns that hard power is a global common currency: Defense diplomacy...
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited New York in September 2021, he stood on the top floor of a just-opened skyscraper. He looked across the street to the United Nations (UN)...
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Afghanistan and regional realignments since August 2021
Published by the South Asia Center, the report “Afghanistan under the Taliban: Regional recalibrations, challenges and ways forward” broadly examines policy recalibrations at the regional level since...
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Europe’s last empire: Putin’s Ukraine war exposes Russia’s imperial identity
Vladimir Putin insists Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” but his brutal invasion of Ukraine has revealed a remarkable lack of “brotherly” Russian empathy for Ukrainians. While many people in...
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Is Putin’s Russia heading for collapse like its Czarist and Soviet predecessors?
On January 31, delegates gathered at the European Parliament in Brussels for a conference exploring the prospects for the “decolonization” of Russia. Organized by MEPs from the European Conservatives...
View ArticleWebster in Eurasianet: China wants the Line D pipeline. Can Central Asia...
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Calls to appease Putin in Ukraine ignore the lessons of history
As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine entered its second year last month, Western leaders were keen to demonstrate their continued determination to prevent a Russian victory. At the same time, with no...
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Russia’s Ukraine invasion is eroding Kremlin influence in Kazakhstan
The invasion of Ukraine was meant to advance Vladimir Putin’s vision of a revived Russian Empire. Instead, it is forcing neighboring countries to reassess their own relationships with Moscow and...
View ArticleCohen in Forbes: Central Asia: An emerging food and energy supplier for the...
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Putin’s dreams of a new Russian Empire are unraveling in Ukraine
Over the past year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has openly compared his invasion of Ukraine to eighteenth century Russian Czar Peter the Great’s imperial conquests, and has boasted of “returning”...
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Kazakhstan could lead Central Asia in mitigating the world’s energy and food...
DOWNLOAD PDF Russia’s war against Ukraine has had significant economic and political repercussions across the globe, including energy shortages and growing food insecurity. The war has forced Central...
View ArticleHow dependent is too dependent on China? Central Asia may soon find out.
Central Asian leaders are walking into a potential trap, guided by a recent rush of Chinese persuasion and engagement to align with the eastern power. A region that even within the last few years...
View ArticleThe US can help Central Asia avoid China’s awkward embrace
The just-concluded C+C5 Summit in Xi’an, China, provides a window into the challenges facing the Central Asian states that emerged from the rubble of the Soviet Union. This may well be the most...
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Central Asia’s clean energy opportunity: Hydropower
Central Asia holds some of the greatest potential for hydropower in the world. The Pamir and Tien Shan mountain ranges and vast river networks that form from glacier meltwater provide numerous...
View ArticleWebster in China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE): China...
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View ArticleShaffer quoted in Forbes on EU Gas Deal with Azerbaijan and worries over...
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View ArticlePutin’s weakness has been revealed. Here’s how Russia’s neighbors are reacting.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner Group rebellion began in Ukraine near Bakhmut, halted on Russia’s M4 highway roughly two hundred kilometers south of Moscow, and ended with Prigozhin reportedly on the way...
View ArticleWebster in The Interpreter: Mongolia in the middle: China and Russia may...
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View ArticleWebster quoted in VOA Chinese on the rise of China’s soft power in Central Asia
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View ArticleThe United States can’t offset its rivals in Central Asia alone. Turkey can...
Central Asia—consisting of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—occupies a crucial place in the global landscape: its location at the crossroads of Russia, Iran, and China;...
View ArticleThe United States must strengthen its engagement with Central Asia
The administration of US President Joe Biden has been intent on strengthening its diplomatic position in Asia to counter China’s growing influence. In May, Biden held meetings with leaders from Japan,...
View ArticleWebster for the China-Russia Report: A conversation on Central Asia with Niva...
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View ArticleShaffer in The Central Asia – Caucasus Analyst: A New Spring for Caspian...
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View ArticleShaffer quoted in Voice of America on the Middle Corridor
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View ArticleShaffer quoted in The Astana Times on the viability of the Middle Corridor
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View ArticleAsat quoted in Radio Free Asia on international legislation to counter...
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View ArticleShaffer quoted in Nikkei Asia on Asian gas exports
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View ArticleShaffer joins Strait Talk to discuss the Turkmenistan/Turkey gas deal
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Central and Eastern Europe needs to rethink its approach to energy security
With the annual Three Seas Initiative Summit fast approaching and in the wake of the recent joint visit of Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Andrzej Duda with President Joe Biden in...
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