The SCO Turns Twenty
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was born almost exactly two decades ago, on June 15, 2001 at a glittering event…
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Russia’s Power Play in Central Asia
Concerns over Central Asian security have increased in recent weeks as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan engaged in serious fighting on their…
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Living in Two Worlds: Rethinking Transnationalism and Translocality
Olga Brednikova and Sergei Abashin, (eds)‚ Жить в двух мирах: Переосмысляя транснационализм и транслокальность (Living in Two Worlds: Rethinking Transnationalism…
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China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Daniel S. Markey, China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Daniel Markey…
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How Rising Great Power Tensions Will Affect Central Asia
This piece is a collaboration between the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. The…
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Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
Edward Schatz, Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia, (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). America’s…
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The Emperor’s New Road
Jonathan Hillman, The Emperor’s New Road, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. The short story by Hans Christian Andersen…
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The Second Tournament of Shadows and British Invasion Scares in Central Asia, 1919–1933
During the 19th century, Britain and Russia vied for influence in the territories between British India in the south and…
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