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ICG, 3 Feb 11: Central Asia: Decay and Decline

FIIA, 15 Dec 10: Controlling Borderlands? New Perspectives on State Peripheries in Southern Central Asia and Northern Afghanistan

ICG, 15 Dec 09: Central Asia: Islamists in Prison

SSI, 1 Jun 09: Challenges and Opportunities for the Obama Administration in Central Asia

SSI, 11 Feb 09: Kazakhstan's Defense Policy: An Assessment of the Trends

CACI, 20 Feb 08: The Changing Dynamics of State-Crime Relations in Kyrgyzstan

CACI, 6 Jan 08: State Propagated Narratives About a National Defender in Central Asian States

Complete 14 page paper at the link.

The Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor, 18 Sep 07:

Kazakhstan's Cadets Prefer Belarus to America

ICG, 24 May 07: Central Asia's Energy Risks

SSI, Mar 07: US Interests in Central Asia and the Challenges to Them

A piece of the "big picture" that requires consideration when looking at Afghanistan...

CACI, Oct 06: State Weakness, Organized Crime and Corruption in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Sheesh, talk about old news. Or maybe I should say the writer is trying to make a tired line interesting by massaging a bit more currency into it...the "Great Game" in the context of post-Soviet...