Will Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan’s Reforms Be Transformative?
Recently, among Central Asian countries, it has become a trend to create a “new Stan” after the countries’ so-called founding fathers. For instance, before...
International ordering and great power competition: Lessons from Central Asia
Overseas U.S basing agreements and their under-lying bargains are embedded in a broader ecology of “international orders” and emerging counterorders. In the initial post-Cold...
Central Asia’s Authoritarians Stare Down A Year of Disorder
Political turmoil and uncertainty beset Central Asia in 2022. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan faced domestic, regional and international challenges exacerbated by the...