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June 26, 2006
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
A newly obtained video of a May 2005 massacre of civilians in the Uzbek city of Andijan casts new light on an event that led to a marked decrease in U.S. influence in the region.
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June 26, 2006
Daily Analysis
Throughout the 1990s, Central Asia's Fergana Valley emerged as a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. A clash in the Fergana city of Andijan last year, variously described as a "massacre" or a "counterterrorist operation," caused a serious break in Uzbek-U.S. ties. Now, a new video has some questioning the facts of that event.
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February 2006
| Authors: | John C. K. Daly Kurt H. Meppen Vladimir Socor S. Frederick Starr |
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Must Read
The USIP-sponsored Silk Road Studies program has issued a report detailing the changing relationship between the United States and Uzbekistan between 2001 and 2005.
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September 30, 2005
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
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September 21, 2005
Nancy Lubin interviewed by Lionel Beehner
Interview
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July 26, 2005
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
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July/August 2005
| Author: | S. Frederick Starr |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Full Text
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March/April 2002
| Authors: | Pauline Luong Erika Weinthal |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
See more in National Security and Defense
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This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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