Content Syndicationhttps://carnegieendowment.org/rss/?fa=rss https://carnegieendowment.org/rss/solr/?fa=feeds http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174859_62935143720_1836682_n.jpg Friday, 31 Mar 2023 02:06:13 EST https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili joins to discuss the evolving geopolitical landscape in Central Asia - Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan - and how the Russo-Ukraine War is redrawing old spheres of influence and empowering Central Asian countries to pursue their interests.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 31 Mar 2023 02:06:13 EST Central Asia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89244?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Russia is facing some real challenges in reproducing and replacing their population which has huge implications for economic growth but also for relations with Central Asia.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89244?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 07 Mar 2023 03:55:09 EST Central Asia, Political Reform https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87703?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss By already pouring vast amounts of aid into Ukraine, now the world's biggest recipient of foreign assistance, with minimal supervision, the international community seems poised to repeat its earlier mistakes in Afghanistan.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87703?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 18 Aug 2022 09:29:57 EST Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Democracy and Human Rights, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss In this episode, Shruti speaks with Jennifer Murtazashvili about the problems with imposing liberal democracy in Afghanistan, building state capacity, education, the role of the U.S. in the Ghani government's collapse and much more.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 04 Aug 2022 02:26:54 EST Afghanistan, South Asia, United States, Democracy and Human Rights, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Rule of Law https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87618?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss It is an interesting time to see how Central Asian states perceive what's going on in Afghanistan. Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are the two main players on the border region.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87618?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Sunday, 31 Jul 2022 04:48:56 EST Afghanistan, Central Asia, South Asia, Uzbekistan, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87472?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Violent protests over proposed changes to its status have swept the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87472?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 06 Jul 2022 11:03:14 EST Central Asia, Uzbekistan, Political Reform https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87376?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Researchers interested in blockchains are increasingly attuned to questions of governance, including how blockchains relate to government, the ways blockchains are governed, and ways blockchains can improve prospects for successful self-governance. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87376?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 16 Jun 2022 05:50:15 EST Technology https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87251?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Chinese citizens are getting attacked and killed in really high numbers inside of Pakistan right now.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87251?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:12:16 EST China, East Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87146?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Although China is dangling economic incentives in front of the Taliban, it does so to extract security guarantees while seeking to ameliorate development challenges in Afghanistan for fear that poverty may drive instability. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87146?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 17 May 2022 03:20:46 EST Central Asia, China, East Asia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86976?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss This is clearly a play by Russia to try to solidify its positions in Georgia.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86976?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 18 Apr 2022 11:00:41 EST Central Asia, Russia, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86631?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss But there was no local governance. There was no opportunity to participate. And what Afghans really wanted after all these years was really a chance to participate and they were never given that opportunity.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86631?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 08 Mar 2022 02:52:07 EST Afghanistan, South Asia, Democracy and Human Rights, Political Reform https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Last week, the Biden administration announced it will redistribute $7 billion in frozen assets that belong to the Afghanistan Central Bank, giving half to a trust fund supporting relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks and the other half to a trust fund to support the humanitarian needs of the Afghan people.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 14 Feb 2022 01:37:52 EST Afghanistan, Americas, South Asia, United States, Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86320?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Now unfortunately, the protests didn't go on long enough for there to emerge a very strong leader of these protests...they were headless protests.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86320?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 25 Jan 2022 02:24:58 EST Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Political Reform, Society and Culture https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86271?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Afghanistan has been caught in a four-decade-long cycle of state collapse. In that time, five regimes have been overthrown and replaced by subsequent governments that each resembled the last, with the same centralized political institutions that have characterized the Afghan state's modern existence.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86271?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Saturday, 15 Jan 2022 01:35:52 EST Afghanistan, South Asia, United States, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, U.S. Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86280?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss By inviting the CSTO, Kazakhstan has sacrificed its symbolic if not outright legitimacy to foreign powers. For 30 years, the country's leaders have proudly proclaimed its sovereignty]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86280?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 10 Jan 2022 04:33:26 EST Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Democracy and Human Rights, Political Reform, Rule of Law https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86167?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss This is a very serious situation because President Tokayev has really escalated the situation by his desire and to use coercive force. This means that there really is no opportunity for negotiations between the protesters and the government.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86167?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 07 Jan 2022 03:03:53 EST Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss In terms of what these protesters want, we can actually look to what the government has promised them over the past several years and especially since Tokayev became president. He has laid out a reform agenda]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 06 Jan 2022 01:08:22 EST Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Democracy and Human Rights, Rule of Law https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/85529?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Top-down state-building strategies blinded the United States to political realities in Afghanistan but have also impeded its foreign policy strategy in the region. Tired cliches about the Great Game hurt its ability to appreciate the creative strategies countries in the region are forging to shape their own futures. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/85529?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 07 Oct 2021 05:13:07 EST