Monthly Archives: November 2018

“Helsinki’s counterintuitive effect? OSCE/ODIHR’s election observation missions and solidification of virtual democracy in post-communist Central Asia: the case of Tajikistan, 2000–2013,” Central Asian Survey, Sept. 2017.

Foroughi & Mukhtorova_Helsinki s Counterintuitive Effect_2017 (Finnish Parliamentarian Kimmo Kiljunen, Dushanbe, 2006)

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“Tajikistan: Nationalism, Ethnicity, Conflict, and Socio-Economic Disparities—Sources and Solutions,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 22 (1): 39-61, 2002.

Foroughi-TAJIKISTAN-NATIONALISM-CONFLICT+SOCIOECON-DISPARITIES-2002 (Photo: The Guardian/Eurasianet)

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“The Helsinki Final Act Four Decades on—Critical Reflections on the OSCE in Eurasia,” Special Issue of the “Central Asian Survey” 36 (3), Sept. 2017.

Central Asian Survey Special Issue Helsinki Final Act Oct 2017

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“Central Asia and Counterterrorism: The Contrasting Cases of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy, eds. Scott N. Romaniuk et al. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 553-571, 2017.

foroughi & bekmurzaev_tajikistan, kyrgyzstan and counterterrorism_2017

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“NATO’s Raison d’Être After the Cold War,” by Yrys Abdieva, MA Thesis, 2007, 81 pp.

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“Religion and the Burden of the ‘Homo Sovieticus’: An Archival-based Study of Soviet Policy on Religion in Kyrgyzstan, 1917-1991,” MA Thesis, G. Kolodzinskaia, December 2017, 98 pp.

PDF: KOLODZINSKAIA Galina MA Thesis OSCE Academy 2017 (Osh, Kyrgyz SSR/foto: Sputnik)

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“A New Cold War? Dissecting the Causes of Hostility Between the U.S. and Russia in the 21st Century,” MA Thesis, Aziz Isa, December 2017, 86 pp.

[PDF] (Kuwait Times)

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