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 “Whatever party we build here, we always get a CPSU.” 

                                                       Viktor Chernomyrdin

Analytical Briefs

 

 

 

Turkmenistan Tilts Toward Russia

Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi

Integration in Central and South Asia

Kazakhstan’s Success

Kashmir Observer Interview

APN Interview in Kazakhstan

Uzbek Leader on Revolution

Shades of Political Succession

Turkmen Gas Bid

Central Asian Rail Dispute (alt)

Turkmenistan Affluence   (alt)

Turkmenistan and Russia

Financing Russia’s Expansion

 

Kazakh Speaker Resigns

Debt-Equity Swaps (alt)

 

Rubric of Reform   (alt)

 

Closing Ranks with Russia   (alt)

 

Free Markets, Free Minds (alt)

 

Kazakhstan as Locomotive of Integration    (Russian version)

 

Energy and Water Policy    (Russian)

 

EAEC Comes into Being

 

New EEC Organization    (Russian)

 

The Bush Administration in CA   (html)

 

Fallout from Afghanistan’s Opium Ban

 

Drug Route Conflict

 

Uzbekistan’s Monetary Isolationism

 

Fears of insurgency 

 

Water and Energy Swaps

 

Counterinsurgency in Central Asia

 

Inter-state water sharing arrangements,

 

Central Asian Transportation Infrastructure

 

Uzbekistan's currency arrangements

 

Central Asian inter-state border arrangements

 

 

Conference Papers and Seminars

Meeting with Students in Tashkent

St. Petersburg Peace Conference (September 2003)

International Studies Association 2003  Reintegration  Evrazes

Dividing Lines (UCB)

Democracy and Counterinsurgency  (U Arkansas)

Economic Integration     Русский вариант

Russia, Tajikistan, and Central Asia (AAASS)

Joint Russian-American Curriculum Development  (Russia, 2001)

Structural Reform in Low Income Transition Countries (ISA 2002)

Dimensions of Eurasia's North-South Divide (SMU 2002)

Perils of Success, Albuquerque Council on Foreign Relations

Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan Trade Cooperation

Conferences in Central Asia 1993-2001

 

Scholarly Articles

“Uzbek Expulsion of US Forces”

Non-State Actors

Russia and Central Asia

"The Politics of Counterinsurgency in Central Asia."

"Why Russia is in Tajikistan."

“Power Sharing in Tajikistan: Political Compromise and Regional Instability.”

“Inter-state Cooperation in Central Asia from the CIS to the Shanghai Forum."

“Asian Liberalism in Kazakhstan.”   alternate

Fealty and Loyalty”

 “Federal Formula”

Books and Teaching

 

Books

 

Teaching

 

 

On no one did there ever rest with greater cruelty the dilemmas evoked by the recent conquest by human beings of a power over nature out of all proportion to their moral strength.

 

George F. Kennan on J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

 

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