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Central Asia’s Strained Security Architecture 

Central Asia’s Strained Security Architecture 

By Saadi Khamidov
Growing divisions within the CSTO -- over Ukraine, Afghanistan, and various internal disputes -- may have serious implications for the region’s security architecture.

Tackling Central Asia’s Remaining Development Challenges

Tackling Central Asia’s Remaining Development Challenges

By Evgeny Vinokurov and Anton Malakhov
The region needs to overcome four key structural challenges: lack of access to the sea, low level of development of the financial sector, lack of water and energy coordination, and climate change.
What AUKUS and Afghanistan Tell Us About the US Asia Strategy

What AUKUS and Afghanistan Tell Us About the US Asia Strategy

By Arash Reisinezhad
Put together, these two seemingly unrelated developments signal a new U.S. strategy in the competition with China.

One Way to Look at the Overhaul in Russia? Putin Lacks a Dynastic Exit Strategy

One Way to Look at the Overhaul in Russia? Putin Lacks a Dynastic Exit Strategy

By Mike Smeltzer
Recent political moves reinforce the fact that Putin still lacks a well-placed family member to whom control could be handed, complicating his search for an exit strategy.

India and Pakistan Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization At Last. So What?

India and Pakistan Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization At Last. So What?

By Ankit Panda and Prashanth Parameswaran
What are the costs and benefits of having India and Pakistan in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?

Why Can’t Russia Exploit Trade Opportunities with India and Iran?

Why Can’t Russia Exploit Trade Opportunities with India and Iran?

By Nicholas Trickett
Russia needs better North-South engagement to avoid dependence on China. But it isn’t well-equipped to achieve it.

Eurasian Economic Union: A Customs Code and a Kyrgyz Dilemma

Eurasian Economic Union: A Customs Code and a Kyrgyz Dilemma

By Catherine Putz
Kyrgyz approve EEU Customs Code, except for the part on the development of trade and economic policy.
What is the Leading Cause of Snow Leopard Killings?

What is the Leading Cause of Snow Leopard Killings?

By Catherine Putz
Experts say more than 50 percent of snow leopard killings are retaliation for attacks on livestock.

Black Wind, White Snow: Imagining Eurasia

Black Wind, White Snow: Imagining Eurasia

By Casey Michel
“Eurasia was a ‘dog whistle,’ a cipher, a deniable but clear goal: to remake the Russian Empire in all but name.”

Kazakhstani Narratives About Aktobe Solidify

Kazakhstani Narratives About Aktobe Solidify

By Catherine Putz
Kyrgyzstan's mine headache, European and Eurasian integration, timekeeping in the Pamirs; weekend reads.

Khorgos: Where East Meets West

Khorgos: Where East Meets West

By Wade Shepard
Kazakhstan and China hope to make Khorgos Eastern Gate the new crossroads of Eurasia.
Understanding China’s Eurasian Pivot

Understanding China’s Eurasian Pivot

By Michael Clarke
The “One Belt, One Road” strategy provides a guide to the future of China in Eurasia.

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