Kazakhstan’s domestic unrest: a new age of instability?
Kazakhstan’s recent wave of protests are different and signal that the government must draw up a new social contract with […]
Articles posted by John Heathershaw
Governance and development in Central Asia: challenges and opportunities
Knightly, University of Exeter 22 November, 2019 9am. Arrival /Coffee 9.15am. Welcome to Exeter / Introductions – Professor John Heathershaw […]
A global approach to corruption and anti-corruption
Flip the script: stop seeing corruption as a problem affecting exclusively, or mostly, developing countries, and instead recognise and investigate […]
Brexit’s Irish irreconcilable: lessons from (post-)Soviet nationalisms
In the latest in a series’ of blogs, John Heathershaw seeks to draw lessons from the Former Soviet Union for […]
A Crisis of Legitimacy
On the tenth anniversary of the publication of his book Post-conflict Tajikistan: the politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of […]
ESCAS 2019: thank you!
Dear colleagues, Thank you to everyone who participated in the European Society for Central Asian Studies 2019 conference at the […]
A reflection on the ESCAS conference
The 16th Biennial European Society for Central Asian Studies Conference was a vibrant and sparkling collation of people, ideas and […]
ESCAS Statement of concern over the indictment and imprisonment of Professor Andrei V. Kubatin, Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent
10 June, 2019 The European Society for Central Asian Studies expresses its deep concern over the indictment and continued imprisonment, […]
Transnational Politics of Central Asia and Beyond – 26 June, 2019
ESCAS 2019 Pre-Conference Workshop
ESCAS 2019 Pre-Conference Workshop Wednesday 26 June 2019 Upper Lounge at Reed Hall, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter This workshop […]
Professor Richard Foltz (Concordia University) presents “What is the meaning of ‘Tajik’?”
13 May 2019, 16:30, IAIS Building/LT1 – An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies seminar Open to everyone Richard Foltz […]
The Status of Tajikistan’s Political Opposition Abroad: An Event @ GWU
9 April, 2019 @ 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Central Asia Program, George Washington University WHERE: Room 505 1957 […]
Russian organised crime and money laundering – tackling ‘Vory’ and Moneyland
PROJECT LAUNCH With Oliver Bullough and Mark Galeotti 5.30-7.00pm, Wednesday 27 February, 2019 Location: Amory 128 Russian and Eurasian organised […]