April 8, 2016 The two countries have diverging views on boosting their military efforts.
Keep readingApril 7, 2016 Among major Latin American oil producers, Mexico has best dealt with the plummeting prices.
April 6, 2016 An alliance between the two massive powers would challenge U.S. global dominance.
April 5, 2016 The country has been at the center of major crises that threaten to destabilize the European Union.
April 7, 2016 Understanding a nation’s strategy requires an unbiased view of its objectives and constraints.
April 6, 2016 Outside of Syria and Iraq, the threat of IS is most potent in Saudi Arabia.
April 5, 2016 The dynamics of the Turkish president’s visit to the U.S. underscore Turkey’s current geopolitical position.
April 4, 2016 For Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and India, the long-established dynamics are changing.
April 4, 2016 The dispute over territory has potential to draw in major powers.
April 1, 2016 Seemingly rash actions can be better understood through empathetic analysis.
April 6, 2016 This week’s graphic shows the geography of the Central Asian states, as well as the distribution of various ethnic groups. Centuries of invasions and foreign rule contributed to the emergence of weak states with deep internal vulnerabilities in Central Asia. We have discussed how Europeans, through the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, created artificial borders in the Middle East, thus laying the groundwork for the disintegration of Syria and Iraq that we are seeing today. Central Asia’s modern-day borders were also drawn by outsiders, though in this case it was Soviet planners in the 1920s and 1930s. Today’s borders are thus not organic and do not strictly reflect ethnic or national divisions. About 23 percent of Kazakhstan’s population, for example, is made up of ethnic Russians. Ethnic Uzbeks make up about 14 percent of Kyrgyzstan’s population and over 13 percent of Tajikistan’s. Central Asia is thus a region where ethnic and regional tensions abound and threaten the unity of the modern states.
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