A summary of over a decade of working on this and a first public piece (!!) with Noah, someone with whom I have been working closely for seven years

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"...the US diplomats’ memoirs offer a unique, frank, and fresh take on the history of the region." Can't agree more! Thank you, Nurbek Bekmurzaev and Global Voices!

All this happened in the last 3 months for Chinese decarbonization policy. Can't think of the last time I saw so many major documents released in such a short period time...feels like 2024 is turning out to be a major year for China's energy policy. Quick summary thread: 🧵

If you are in Almaty tomorrow and want to learn about Peter Frankopan’s magisterial book “The Earth Transformed”, join the author and us Central Asian Policy Studies:

Huge thanks to John Kerry for the kind and inspiring video message he sent to our (Central Asian Policy Studies) conference on climate change education in Central Asia! So grateful to Peter Frankopan for making this happen!

Wonderful to see #EarthTransformed out now in #Kazakh thanks to Central Asian Policy Studies Nargis Kassenova #AidaAidarkulova and more !

Washington and Beijing are strategic narcissists. Often, they refract rule making through the prism of their parochial strategic competition while third countries also set standards and write rules. My latest in Forbes Markets on fragmentation in Asia. forbes.com/sites/evanfeig…

Come and discuss with regional experts trade prospects in #CentralAsia!

I am thrilled to present this new essay in our (Davis Center and Eurasianet) series "American Diplomats in Central Asia" - "U.S.-Kazakhstan Diplomacy during the 9/11 Crisis. No Miracles, but Substantial Achievements", Part 1, by Amb. Larry Napper: eurasianet.org/memoir-us-kaza…

We are so pleased to welcome the new director of our Program on Georgian Studies! Natia Chankvetadze is a peace-building scholar-practitioner acclaimed for her work promoting peace education in her native 🇬🇪. Learn about her and the program’s work as she takes the helm.

And here's Part 2 of Amb. Larry Napper's exciting memoir covering Galymzhan Zhakiyanov's arrest and James Giffen's arrest/"Kazakhgate" affair: eurasianet.org/memoir-dethron… - the latest publication in our (Davis Center and Eurasianet) series "American diplomats in Central Asia."

И хамско-высокомерное обращение на "ты" очень характерное...

какой же крутой поступок 💔 Журналисты сегодня во время пресс-конференции задавали свои вопросы от имени журналистки Жании Уранкаевой, которой закрыли доступ в дом правительства.

Big congratulations, Maximilian Hess! Very well deserved 👏👏👏

can't keep up with all the new amazing music coming out of Kazakhstan, but I'm floored by SAMRATTAMA. Goosebumps every time I listen youtube.com/watch?v=ne_9Fb…

"China held its first ever public security ministers’ meeting with Central Asia as Beijing looks to protect Belt and Road interests. China’s Minister of Public Security met his counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan" scmp.com/news/china/dip…

Central Asia Barometer, long a valuable resource to researchers such as myself, says it is suspending operations due to threats. I don’t know anything further about what’s going on but a very worrying development. ca-barometer.org/en/news/cab-st…

Kyrgyzstan is losing its best assets - vibrant, independent and highly professional NGOs that helped the country overcome crises and made it look good internationally. I hope the suspension of activities by Central Asia Barometer will be temporary. It single-handedly filled such a gap.

📢NEW DEADLINE -30 September📢 OSCE Academy in partnership with NUPI Indra Overland, is offering 2 full-time Post-Doctoral Researcher positions in Bishkek! #Research in #energy, #climatechange, #geopolitics, etc. Learn more: shorturl.at/nknt6