Kazakhstan’s big plans for OSCE. Let’s hope not
Dmitry Medvedev and Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana, 2008 (courtesy of Wikipedia) Kazakhstan promises to reform OSCE. Europe still hopes to democratize the entrenched authoritarian Kazakhstan. Who is...
View ArticleHow useful is it to characterise the presence of foreign states in Central...
The States of Central Asia The recent resurgence of the geopolitical and geostrategic importance of Central Asia (hereafter CA) has led to the re-adoption of the Great Game discourse[1], recalling the...
View ArticleIn Central Asia, It Is Better to Speak of Confrontation than of War
On December 28th, 2012, Arielle Thedrel published in the French newspaper Le Figaro an article entitled Une Guerre de l’Eau Menace l’Asie Centrale, alluding to the uneasy situation of water-management...
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