The Central Asia Program (CAP) promotes high-quality academic and policy knowledge on contemporary Central Asia, and serves as an interface for the policy, academic, diplomatic, and business communities. The program is located at IERES at George Washington University.
Central Asia Program Podcast Series
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The Central Asia Program (CAP) promotes high-quality academic and policy knowledge on contemporary Central Asia, and serves as an interface for the policy, academic, diplomatic, and business communities. The program is located at IERES at George Washington University.
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July 28, 2022
Reform Crisis in Uzbekistan and the Karakalpak Protests
<p>President Shavkat Mirziyoev initiated several constitutional amendments in Uzbekistan at the end of June which have reminded the world about the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan, bordering the dying Aral Sea. Efforts to diminish the Republic’s autonomy resulted in mass protests that unfortunately turned deadly. Join us to explore the reasons that prompted Mirziyoev’s constitutional amendments, Tashkent’s difficulties in encouraging further reforms, and the future of Karakalpak people’s autonomy.</p> <p><strong>Speakers</strong></p> <p><strong>Navbahor Imamova</strong>, Anchor, Editor and Producer, Uzbek Service, South and Central Asia Division, Voice of America, President, VOA Women’s Caucus;</p> <p><strong>Temur Umarov</strong> is a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the OSCE Academy (Bishkek);</p> <p><strong>Dr. Akram Umarov</strong> is Director of the Afghanistan Research Group and Associate Professor at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy;</p> <p><strong>Yuriy Sarukhanian</strong>, International Relations specialist. Author of analytical Telegram channel Seriya Penalti;</p> <p><strong>Moderator: Marlene Laruelle</strong>, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University.</p>
February 24, 2022
Modernity, Development and Decolonization of Knowledge in Central Asia: Kazakhstan as a Foreign Aid Donor
<p>An online book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University on February 11, 2022.</p> <p>This book joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development and explores the transformation of Kazakhstan from a recipient country to a development aid provider. Drawing on fieldwork in Nur-Sultan and Almaty (Kazakhstan) between 2016 and 2019, this research evaluates the philosophy and core features of Kazakhstan’s chosen development aid model and explains the factors that account for the construction of aid patterns of Kazakh donorship.</p> <p>Speakers</p> <p>Nafissa Insebayeva, Author</p> <p>Nafissa Insebayeva specializes in Kazakhstan's foreign policy, international development politics, foreign aid, and South-South cooperation. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) as a MEXT scholar, and currently serves as a Researcher at the Nippon Foundation Central Asia-Japan Human Resource Development Project (NipCA). Nafissa has previously held the position of a Central Asia-Azerbaijan Fellow at the Central Asia Program (CAP). Her studies have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Eurasian Studies and Europe-Asia Studies.</p> <p>Sofya du Boulay, Discussant</p> <p>Sofya du Boulay is a Marie Curie Fellow and PhD candidate in Political Science at Oxford Brookes University. Her main research interests are related to the study of authoritarian regimes, including their political stability and legitimation in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her research has been published in Problems of Post-Communism and Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).</p> <p>Syinat Sultanalieva, Discussant</p> <p>Dr. Syinat Sultanalieva is a researcher at Human Rights Watch, focusing on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. She received her PhD from the Special Program in Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of gender studies and critical postcolonial theories. Previously Syinat has worked extensively on LGBTI and women's rights in Central Asia, helping in the establishment of several initiatives in the region.</p> <p>Sebastien Peyrouse, Moderator</p> <p>Sebastien Peyrouse, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia, economic and social issues, Islam and religious minorities, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China, India and South Asia.</p>
January 11, 2022
What is Happening in Kazakhstan?
<p>An online discussion hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University and co-sponsored with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs, and RFE/RL on January 10, 2022.</p> <p>The riots that erupted on January 5, 2021 in Almaty and then spread to Kazakhstan’s other cities have taken the government by surprise, but signals of unrest were present since Nazarbayev left the presidency in 2019. The dismissal of the Cabinet, the removal of Nazarbayev from the Security Council presidency, the storm of the Parliament and the Almaty airport, as well as police violence will, without a doubt, mark a turning point in the history of Kazakhstan. At a more geopolitical level, the impact will be decisive too, as the CSTO has, for the first time in its history, sent peacekeeping troops at President Tokayev’s request.</p> <p>Who are the protesters? What do they want? What are the genuine grassroots aspects and the instrumentalization of popular resentment by some elites for internal struggles? How can the regime survive such clashes? What will be the regional impact of the crisis in what was until then the most stable and prosperous country of Central Asia?</p> <p>SPEAKERS</p> <p>Merkhat Sharipzhanov, RFE/RL's Sr. Central Newsroom Correspondent, former Director of Kazakh Service;</p> <p>Temur Umarov, Research Consultant at Carnegie Moscow Center;</p> <p>Pauline Jones, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum at the University of Michigan (UM);</p> <p>Barbara Junisbai, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, Pitzer College;</p> <p>Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University);</p> <p>Moderator: Marlene Laruelle, Director and Research Professor, the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), The George Washington University.</p>
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