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Located at the American Foreign Policy Council, we provide expert analysis on political, economic, and security developments in Central Asia and the Caucasus regions, continuing a 25-year tradition of delivering cutting-edge content for policymakers
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Central Asia's Afghan Reality: What the U.S. Might be Missing (opens the original)
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The August 31–September 1 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek offered a revealing snapshot of Afghanistan’s changing role in the region. The massive SCO gathering brought together the leaders of China, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus. Its expanded SCO Plus meeting added Azerbaijan, Armenia, Egypt, Laos, Mongolia, Türkiye, Togo and Vietnam, alongside the UN and other organizations. U.S. Special Envoy for South and Cen
Pakistan, Central Asia, and The Transchina Trade Corridor (opens the original)
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Tashkent and Islamabad have agreed to expand bilateral trade through routes traversing China, as Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions and the war in Iran have disrupted existing trade links. Pakistan’s conflict with Afghanistan has made the prospects for trans-Afghan corridors connecting Central Asia with Pakistan increasingly uncertain. Meanwhile, renewed U.S.-Iran fighting has made trans-Iranian routes an unreliable option for Pakistan’s trade with Central Asia. Pakistan and Central Asian states such
How C5+1 Came to Be (opens the original)
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With the next meeting of the United States-sponsored C5+1 (likely soon to be expanded to C6+1) taking place in Samarkand, there has been much discussion about the origins of what has become America’s overarching strategic initiative in the broader region of Greater Central Asia. What and who gave rise to this project, which took so long to germinate but is now flourishing? And why did it arise when it did, so many years after the countries reclaimed their sovereignty?<a class="image-link image2
Kazakhstan's First Kurultai Under a New Constitution (opens the original)
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On August 23, 2026, Kazakhstan elected its inaugural session of the state Kurultai, following its establishment under Kazakhstan’s constitutional changes approved in the March 15 referendum. Adilet, the party into which the long-ruling Amanat (previously Nur Otan) merged, took 71.17 percent of the vote nationwide and 110 seats out of 145, a decisive supermajority. Kazakhstan’s constitutional changes created the post of Vice President, a new People’s Council, and the consolidation of the bicamera
The EU's New Opportunities in Central Asia and the Caucasus (opens the original)
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Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has triggered an ongoing and deepening decolonization process across the Caucasus and Central Asia. As part of this process local governments face multiple challenges stemming from Russian policies to restrict their economic or political independence and retain or regain their imperial privilege. These challenges, however, are presenting new opportunities for both local governments and the EU to confront them thereby strengthening their mutual ties, regional s
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