Browse Research and Commentary

Despite Its Siren Song, High-Value Targeting Doesn’t Fit All: Matching Interdiction Patterns to Specific Narcoterrorism and Organized-Crime Contexts

October 1, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

China’s and Russia’s Interests in Central Asia: Connecting the Dots in Kazakhstan

September 17, 2013, Johannes F. Linn

Moscow Ponders Central Asian Security, Stability

June 14, 2013, Fiona Hill

Democracy and Poverty: A Lesson from Mongolia

April 2013, Nyamosor Tuya

Central Asian Regional Integration and Cooperation: Reality or Mirage?

October 31, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

Mongolia's Nuclear-Weapon-Free Status: Recognition vs. Institutionalization

August 2012, Nyamosor Tuya

Natural Disasters in Central Asia: Thousands Yearly but Little Response Capacity

May 31, 2012, Elizabeth Ferris

Central Asia: Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights

May 29, 2012, Elizabeth Ferris

Workshop on Protecting Rights of Civilians in Natural Disasters in Central Asia and the Caucasus

May 15, 2012

Internally Displaced Persons and Host Communities: The Limits of Hospitality?

March 22, 2012

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Scaling Up Development Interventions: A Review of UNDP's Country Program in Tajikistan

February 21, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

Mongolia’s Quest to Balance Human Development in its Booming Mineral-Based Economy

January 2012, Alicia Campi

Central Asia and the Caucasus – At the Crossroads of Eurasia in the 21st Century

June 22, 2011

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Qualitative Energy Diplomacy in Central Asia

April 2011, Simon SHEN

An International Response to Central Asia’s Severe Disaster Risks

April 26, 2011, Johannes F. Linn

The War Games in Central Asia That You Didn't Hear About Last Month

October 29, 2010, Julie Boland

An American Opportunity in Kyrgyzstan

April 14, 2010, Johannes F. Linn

Protection Against Severe Earthquake Risks in Central Asia

March 23, 2010, Johannes F. Linn

Case Study on Aid Effectiveness in Tajikistan

October 2009, Firuz Kataev, Matin Kholmatov and Rustam Aminjanov

Aid Coordination on the Ground: Are Joint Country Assistance Strategies the Answer?

July 2009, Johannes F. Linn

The Failure to Protect: Battle-Affected IDPs in Southern Afghanistan

June 22, 2009, Alex Mundt and Susanne Schmeidl

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Return of Internally Displaced Persons to Northern Afghanistan

June 1, 2009, Alex Mundt, Susanne Schmeidl, The Liaison Office & Australian National University and Shafiqullah Ziai, The Liaison Office

Strategic Assessment of the Caspian Sea Basin Region

May 7, 2009

The Migration-Displacement Nexus in Afghanistan

May 4, 2009, Khalid Koser

Afghanistan: What Is at Stake?

April 30, 2009, Bruce Riedel