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Teaching Fellowship Opportunity with the Global Language Network

30 July, 2021

Global Language Network Teaching Fellowship Opportunity Sharing your language and culture is a great way to broaden understanding of Central Asia and connect people from around the world through language. GLN…

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Video – Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Resurgence of the Taliban

27 July, 2021

July 27, 2021 As Talibans are progressing in retaking control of Afghanistan, Central Asian states and border communities found themselves in a situation of neighboring Taliban-government regions, with potential implications…

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Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (Open Access)

7 July, 2021

Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (Open Access) Central Peripheries Nationhood in Central Asia explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene,…

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Announcing the Central Asia Program Global Language Network Initiative

1 July, 2021

Русский We are excited to launch the new Central Asia Program Global Language Network Initiative. This partnership connects the CAP community and the Global Language Network (GLN), a not-for-profit organization…

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Video – Marriage Quandaries in Central Asia

24 June, 2021

Marriage Quandaries in Central Asia June 21, 2021 The reality of marriage across Central Asia is complicated. Not only does the term “marriage” cover a wide range of practices and…

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Video – Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellows Research Presentation

24 June, 2021

Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellows’ Final Research Presentation June 17, 2021 The Central Asia Program is proud to announce our Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellows’ Final Research Presentation. This brief seminar features…

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The United States, Kazakhstan, and Environmental Cooperation

24 May, 2021

By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez Wilder Alejandro Sanchez is an analyst who covers geopolitical, trade, and defense issues in the post-Soviet world and the Western Hemisphere. He has analyzed Kazakhstan’s foreign policy…

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Examining the Causes of Femicide in Kazakhstan

23 April, 2021

By Moldir Kabylova Moldir is a PhD student in Public Policy at University of Nottingham, UK. The main theme of the research work she is conducting for her PhD thesis is…

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The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th – Century Central Asia (Video)

21 April, 2021

April 20, 2021 In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia’s Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and…

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Память из пламени Афганистана (видео)

16 April, 2021

16 апреля, 2021 Проект «Память из пламени Афганистана» был инициирован Марлен Ларуэль, Ph.D., (директор Института исследований Европы, России и Евразии (IERES), директор Программы по изучению Центральной Азии, со-руководитель программы PONARS-Eurasia, профессор –исследователь…

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The Many Faces of Polygyny in Kazakhstan

16 April, 2021

Hélène Thibault has been Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, since 2016. She specializes in ethnography, gender, and the securitization of Islam in Central Asia. She is…

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The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution (Video)

12 April, 2021

April 9, 2021 The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the…

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Crude Accountability Communications Assistant

6 April, 2021

Communications Assistant Crude Accountability is an environmental and human rights nonprofit organization that works with communities in the Caspian and Black Sea regions battling threats to local natural resources and…

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Кыргызстан 2020: протесты рабочих и трудовые права

31 March, 2021

Бермет Борубаева Бермет Борубаева – независимая исследовательница, участница коллектива КыргСоц, автор ряда публикаций по теме трудовых прав, экологии, урбанистики и искусства. Выпускница факультета международных отношений Кыргызского-Российского Славянского университета (Бишкек) и…

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Double Book Launch: Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roads (Video)

26 March, 2021

Double Book Launch: Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roads March 26, 2021 Virtual double book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for…

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CALL FOR PAPERS

16 March, 2021

To support our mission of increasing high-quality academic and policy knowledge on Central Asia and promoting local scholarship, the Central Asia Program (CAP) at George Washington University invites the submission…

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Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin

16 March, 2021

Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin March 16, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for…

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Социальные движения как отражение поляризации в кыргызстанском обществе

16 March, 2021

Photo Credit: Succo at Pixabay Александра Филатова Александра Филатова – исследовательница Аналитического Консорциума «Перспектива», магистр политических наук Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики» На примере октябрьских событий B первый…

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Book Launch – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm (Video)

11 March, 2021

Book Launch – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm March 11, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for…

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The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925 – 1991: An Uneasy Legacy

11 March, 2021

The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925 – 1991: An Uneasy Legacy This monograph by Peter Rollberg, Elliott School Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Research Initiatives and Professor of Slavic Languages,…

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Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Video)

9 March, 2021

Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia March 9, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and…

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Социальные группы поддержки политика С. Жапарова

8 March, 2021

Photo Credit: Kyrgyzstan Presidency Press Office Нургуль Эсенаманова Нургуль Эсенаманова в настоящее время является независимым экспертом, исследует феномены радикализации, насильственного экстремизма, терроризма – причины, проявления и ответные меры. Она…

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ONE EURASIA OR MANY? Regional Interconnections and Connectivity Projects on the Eurasian Continent

3 March, 2021

The aim of this book is to critically review the processes of integration and region-building in Greater Eurasia. Integration is a broad term that covers any rise in economic and…

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Teaching Fellowship Opportunity with the Global Language Network

Video – Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Resurgence of the Taliban

Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (Open Access)

Announcing the Central Asia Program Global Language Network Initiative

Video – Marriage Quandaries in Central Asia

Video – Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellows Research Presentation

The United States, Kazakhstan, and Environmental Cooperation

Examining the Causes of Femicide in Kazakhstan

The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th – Century Central Asia (Video)

Память из пламени Афганистана (видео)

The Many Faces of Polygyny in Kazakhstan

The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution (Video)

Crude Accountability Communications Assistant

Кыргызстан 2020: протесты рабочих и трудовые права

Double Book Launch: Chinese Foreign Policy toward Central Asia and the Silk Roads (Video)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin

Социальные движения как отражение поляризации в кыргызстанском обществе

Book Launch – Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm (Video)

The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925 – 1991: An Uneasy Legacy

Slow Anti-Americanism: The Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Video)

Социальные группы поддержки политика С. Жапарова

ONE EURASIA OR MANY? Regional Interconnections and Connectivity Projects on the Eurasian Continent

Teaching Fellowship Opportunity with the Global Language Network

Video – Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Resurgence of the Taliban

Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction

Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (Open Access)

Announcing the Central Asia Program Global Language Network Initiative

Video – Marriage Quandaries in Central Asia

Video – Spring 2021 CAAFP Fellows Research Presentation

Reclaiming Historical Past and Collective Public Memory: The Case of Valikhanov in Kazakhstan

China’s Vaccine Diplomacy In Central Asia: What Next?

Remembering Kazakhstan’s Great Famine of the 1930s