Central Asia Security Report -2018

The report “Religious education in Kyrgyzstan: Madrasah system in urgent need of reform”

Guljigit Sooronkulov: “Only 40% of our schools are provided with books”.

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SIPRI: Trends in international arms trade

Photo: Street action at the opening of the Conference of State parties to the ATT in Geneva, August 2016. Amnesty International Switzerland Accoring to the report published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2012–16 was 8.4 per cent higher than in 2007–11. This was ...

Dialogue on Armed Drones

RAND Report on Drones

The research report published by RAND says that regardless of U.S. or global policies concerning the export of UAVs of various sizes, these systems posing an incremental but growing threat to U.S. and allied military operations. Major potential adversaries—China, Russia, and Iran—recognize the utility of this capability and are producing many types...

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The Next Drone Wars

Sarah Kreps and Micah Zenk, Foreign Affaires The U.S. drone program has the greatest reach. Since 2008, the United States has conducted more than 1,000 drone strikes in Afghanistan. From 2008 to 2012, the United States conducted 48 drone strikes in Iraq; in 2011, it launched at least 145 drone strikes in Libya. The use

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Turkey`s Comeback to Central Asia

Bayram Balci* and Thomas Liles* Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey emerged as an influential player in the Muslim and ethnically Turkic republics of Central Asia. Despite an unrealistic initial policy approach aimed at creating a wide-spanning Turkic union, Turkey reoriented its foreign policy toward the region and since the mid-199...