Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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The EU and Kazakhstan: Developing a Partnership in Trade and Transport
...precursor and never a substitute for the region-wide arrangements that both the EU and Central Asian countries need. S. Frederick Starr is Chairman and Svante E. Cornell Director of the...
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A Steady Hand: The EU 2019 Strategy & Policy Toward Central Asia
...Executive Summary The launch of a new EU Strategy for Central Asia in June 2019 marked a milestone in the gradual development of relations between the EU and the...
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Modernization and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: A New Spring?
...Executive Summary Until recently, regional cooperation among Central Asian states has left much to be desired. While a number of initiatives have been launched over the past quarter-century, there...
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Religion and the Secular State in Kazakhstan
...Executive Summary At independence, Kazakhstan shared with the successor states to the Soviet Union the challenge of replacing Soviet atheism with new state approaches to religion. Like the rest...
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Central Asia: All Together Now
...After a quarter century of independence, the fragmentation of Central Asia is evident to all. A senior official there might justifiably complain about how each country “[is] pursuing...
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Time to Re-Engage
...Whipsawed by years of foreign policy activism and then by general retreat, the United States is at risk of losing an opportunity to cement hard-won gains in Central...
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Kazakhstan 2041: the Next Twenty-Five Years
...Kazakhstan has come a long way in the twenty five years since it gained sovereignty. The leadership can point to impressive economic development, stability, strengthened sovereignty, and respect for...
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Tracking Trade-inspired Globalization Over More Than a Millennium
...This absorbing but curiously misnamed book is more than the story of the “Silk Roads” and less than a “History of the World.” Peter Frankopan, an Oxford specialist on...
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The EU, Central Asia, and the Development of Continental Transport and Trade
...Since the collapse of the USSR, a number of initiatives have embarked, separately or together, on the momentous task of rebuilding trade and transportation arteries across Central Asia and...
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A Western Strategy for the South Caucasus
...The Caucasus is key to any Western efforts to shape future interactions between Europe and the Middle East, and to Western commercial and strategic interests in Eurasia. At a...