CESRAN Int.

Ariel Cohen   economic nationalism, a trend that is rapidly gaining strength in Central Asia, appears to be spreading to Mongolia. The Mongolian parliament is set to consider legislation on March...

Joanna Lillis   kazakhstan is trying to develop a diplomatic initiative that could both cement Astana’s role as an important geopolitical player and defuse one of the world’s most vexing dilemmas...

Scott Lucas midst all the flurry of Presidential announcements and Congressional hearings on Pakistan-Afghanistan, this is the most important document to sneak onto the Internet this week. Wikileaks has posted a...

Bill Bradley   barack Obama has an opportunity to establish a new relationship with Russia that will make the world a safer place. With ties between the two countries being...

Duygu Uckun   Azerbaijan is an oil rich country and a transition economy. It is witnessing an increasing foreign direct investment and fast economic growth. Mismanagement of this process might...

Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA   The emergence of Turkish interest in the Central Asian region began with the geopolitical changes appeared in the former Soviet South geopolitical area following the...

Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA   Sovyetler Birliği’nin dağılmasını takiben Güney Kafkasya bölgesinde yer alan Azerbaycan’ın bağımsızlığına kavuşması bu devleti olumlu yönde olduğu kadar olumsuz yönde de etkilemiştir. Bağımsız devlet, bağımsız...

Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA   Along with the emergence of the newly independent Soviet Muslim periphery, the region, has started to be included in Turkish foreign policy agenda, too. Turkey...

Prof. Mark BASSIN   One of the great fascinations of studying nationalist ideologies is to follow the complex process by which foreign notions and perspective are absorbed, rescripted and resignified,...

Prof. Mark Bassin     Eurasianism, as Stephen Shenfield reminds us, means many things. Indeed, this is if anything an understatement, for the term has emerged as one of the...