A new issue of Perspectives on Central Asia is out. The inaugural issue of the Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research is out. William Harlow (UTPB): The Rhetoric of Silence and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire. Natalia N. Morozova (HSE): Can There Be Ethical Politics? Rethinking the Relationship between European Geopolitics and Russian Eurasianism. Ryan Maness (Buffalo State): Coercive Energy Policy: Russia and Post-Soviet Space. These are the model citizens of Europe’s last dictatorship. After years of being overshadowed by Russia and the Russian language, many Belarusians are now taking an increased interest in their native language to assert their country's identity. L.J.M. Seymour (Amsterdam): Pathways to Secession: Separatist Trajectories in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya and Kosovo. Georgians from the would-be state of Abkhazia have spent decades trying to rebuild their lives after conflict forced them from their homes — but today, the wounds of war still feel fresh. Azerbaijan must stop its suppression of civil society. Filippo Costa Buranelli (King’s College): “May We Have a Say?” Central Asian States in the UN General Assembly. John Heathershaw (Exeter) and David Montgomery (Pittsburgh): The Myth of Muslim Post-Soviet Radicalization in the Central Asian Republics. Richard C. Foltz on Islamic communities in Central Asia. Is there any way to solve the border dispute between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan? Katarzyna Kaczmarska investigates. Hardly an oasis: Kazakhstan turns geography to advantage as China builds a “New Silk Road”. Can minor languages make revolution? Sarah Kendzior on Uzbekistan and the codes of activism on the Internet. Stan'd if you do, Stan'd if you don't: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan want to drop the pesky Persian suffix that’s been frustrating Central Asia for generations — here’s why that’s a bad idea.
