Casey Michel
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:30
The Kazakhstani government claims that it’s managed to identify the country’s citizens – some 300, at the last official estimate – who have uprooted to fight with ISIS.
Monday, October 6, 2014 - 07:40
Wildly overstating the threat Islamic State poses to the region justifies calls for more curbs on civil liberties.
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 07:29
For all the questions about the SCO’s purpose, it has brought at least one unlikely pair together.
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 06:59
There’s a peculiar belief currently coursing intellectual circles in Moscow. Combining the bubbling traits of nativism and Islamophobia, and playing squarely into the hands of those seeking to amp the region’s security structures, certain circles have begun pumping up the terror and tenor of the threat posed by the Islamic State.
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 08:44
Termination of a key US military base in Kyrgyzstan highlights the superpower's declining influence in the region.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 10:32
Nearly 13 years after the US arrived, and following the cycling of more than five million servicemen through Afghanistan, geopolitics in Central Asia are shifting - and the United States has just ceded its most substantial asset.
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 08:07
Since convincing – since blinkering – Western countries as to the promised democratic reforms, Kazakhstan has seen one of the most pronounced shifts toward autocracy the former Soviet space has recently provided.