Russia is pursuing influence in Central Asia and competing with the US. Afghanistan offers it a chance to do both.
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With several terror attacks committed by Uzbeks abroad in 2017, one of the world’s harshest regimes is coming under scrutiny.
Migration may help to pay Western pensions, but life is hard for those left behind.
China’s One Belt, One Road initiative is holding international summit in Beijing, but no Western leaders have said they are coming yet.
The jailing of the two men shows the government of President Nursultan Nazarbayev well understands that it can no longer underestimate the power of new forms of civic activism.
An abundance of natural resources has helped Kazakhstan attract billions in investments. Despite its booming economy, the government is unlikely to move towards democracy any time soon.
Central Asia’s most populous country is stagnant and repressive, but its two massive neighbours want in now Islam Karimov is gone.
Tajikistan, a longstanding human rights violator, has been cracking down harshly on what’s left of its political opposition.
Islamic State has been spreading its influence beyond the Middle East – and Central Asia could be in the firing line.
In seeking to link IS to earlier Islamic movements, Western commentators have associated the jihadist group with the medieval Ismailis, made famous in Europe by returning Crusaders as the Assassins.
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Exeter
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Professor, International Politics, University of Exeter
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Assistant professor, KIMEP University
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Teaching Fellow in Public Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Visiting Scholar at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University
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Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Research Professor in Environmental Science, American University
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Lecturer, International Relations, University of St Andrews
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Research Fellow, Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent
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Professor of Journalism and Chair, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Senior postdoctoral fellow in palaeoecology, Stockholm University
