Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Rethinking Greater Central Asia: New American and Western Approaches to Continental Trade and Afghanistan
...Executive Summary: Greater Central Asia is reeling from the twin shocks of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The chaotic U.S. withdrawal risks postponing...
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Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev
...Executive Summary Kazakhstan’s leaders have long harbored ambitious visions for their country’s future. The country’s first President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, launched several far-reaching goals for the country’s development, most notably...
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Japan’s Response to IMF’s Special Drawing Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic…On August 2, 2021, the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as international reserve assets equivalent…
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People’s Tribunal versus People’s Republic…This weekend something unusual is going to happen. From June 4th to 7th an independent tribunal in the UK will hear evidence about human rights abuses against ethnic…
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Ukraine Will Impose Caution on China’s Aspirations in Taiwan…Seen from a Russian-Chinese perspective, in many ways Ukraine and Taiwan are similar. Both nations are ethnically, socially and culturally deeply connected to their main adversary. Both are…
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Japan’s Diplomatic Commitment to the Global Fund…On April 21, 2022, Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM or the Global Fund) paid a courtesy visit to…
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Japan’s Struggle behind Political Inequality…After World War II, Japan, much like Germany, quickly caught up with the richest of countries in terms of economic development and standards of living. Yet, unlike Germany,…
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Xi Jinping’s Strategic Choice…Stalin should be praised for his efforts to modernize the Soviet Union, while Khrushchev was too influenced by the West and Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika paved the way…
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Japan’s Vaccine Diplomacy toward a “Polio-Free” World…In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, we tend to forget about other infectious diseases, including polio, but the significance of routine vaccination should not be forgotten even in the…