Search results for: Mark S. Cogan
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The Long Game on the Silk Road: U.S. and EU Strategy for Central Asia and the Caucasus
...This book argues that American and European policies toward Central Asia and the Caucasus suffer from both conceptual and structural impediments. It traces the framework of Western policies to...
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The U.S. and Turkey: Past the Point of No Return?
...With Ankara and Washington on a collision course in northern Syria, both sides will have to rethink their priorities if they want to salvage an increasingly hollow alliance....
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Uzbekistan’s New Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity under New Leadership
...neighbors. Recent Uzbek initiatives have led to the construction of new transportation infrastructure, economic deregulation to simplify business entrepreneurship, liberalizing of national currency controls, and other market-oriented reforms in pursuit...
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Erdogan’s Turkey: The Role Of A Little Known Islamist Poet
...When President Trump announced that the US had recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the region prepared for violence. Aside from a few days of sporadic protests, relatively little happened....
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The Great Rejuvenation? China’s Search for a New ‘Global Order’
...Executive Summary This Asia Paper explores how China, a ‘partial’ global power, can set the agenda and determine the rules in a global order dominated by a declining yet...
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Reforming South Korea’s “Imperial Presidency”
...South Korea’s constitution vests too much power in the office of the president, which raises the risk of the post being misused. This was brought dramatically into focus earlier...
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Bad Solutions in a Complex Situation: China’s Relations with North Korea
...China’s relations with North Korea are complex with a variety of bad choices and suboptimal solutions. It could be argued that the actor that has lost most in the...
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Sounds, Silences and Turkey’s Crumbling Core
...Since the failed coup of July 2016, Turkey’s spiralling descent ever deeper into authoritarianism has been characterized by arbitrary arrests and widespread abuses of even the draconian powers...
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The European Union’s Political and Security Engagement with Central Asia: How to Move Forward
...Despite an ambitious set of policy initiatives for Central Asia, the EU is punching below its weight in a region where Russia and China are far more influential....
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Iran’s Azerbaijan Question in Evolution: Identity, Society, and Regional Security
...Executive Summary Iranian Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethno-linguistic minority. Predominantly Shiite, with religion being the most important source of collective identity, Turkophone Azerbaijanis had...