Beyond Silence: Collaboration Between Arab States and China in the Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
Access the full report here This report, which was produced in collaboration with the Uyghur Human Rights Project, assesses China’s…
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“Your Family Will Suffer”: How China is Hacking, Surveilling, and Intimidating Uyghurs in Liberal Democracies
Download the full report here. Access the dataset of 5,530 instances of Uyghurs being targeted with surveillance, intimidation and harassment…
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Covid-19, Worker Strikes and the Failure to Protect Citizens: An Update on the Central Asian Protest Tracker
Read the report. Get the key takeaways here As the third wave of Covid-19 hit Central Asia with the Delta…
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Dialogue Summary: Japan and South Korea in Central Asia
Read the summary here. In Spring 2021, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Davis Center of Russian…
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Dialogue Summary: Emerging Forms of Islamic Civil Society in Central Asia
Read the report here. Although levels of religiosity vary, over eighty five percent of Central Asians self-identify as Muslim, with…
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Understanding Disorder in Central Asia
The five countries in Central Asia — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan — all display varying degrees of authoritarian rule. Across the region, local economies are stymied by corruption, resulting in a dissatisfied and increasingly vocal populace (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 18 October 2019). In two of the republics, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, election-related demonstrations have altered the political landscape, but across the board, state directed-force and mob brutality are rife.
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Revolution and Rising Discontent: An Update on the Central Asia Protest Tracker
Download PDF This report is based on the Central Asia Protest Tracker. Download our full dataset. By Natalie Simpson, Raushan…
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Ten Years Gone: The Legacy of the 2010 Revolution and Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan: A Roundtable
Download PDF Eugene Huskey, Emil Dzhuraev, Gulzat Botoeva, and Nick Megoran Edited by John Heathershaw and Edward Lemon Introduction John…
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Introducing the Central Asia Migration Tracker
Download PDF By Sher Khashimov, Raushan Zhandayeva, Kymbat Nuranova and Zhibek Aisarina Central Asia’s population continues to grow rapidly, with…
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The Growth, Adaptation and Limitations of Chinese Private Security Companies in Central Asia
In this paper, we explore the third strategy in China’s toolkit by examining the activities of Chinese PSCs in Central Asia, a region of vital importance to the success of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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