Central Asia

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Billboard of Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, 2015.
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the Democratization Shell Game
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.
Who are the Taliban?
Herd of horses on desert-steppe
A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva
A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan
Book cover of Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
3/30/2015: Hot off the Presses: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
Cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith.
Between the East and the West
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.
A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404
A marooned boat on what used to be the shore of the shrinking Aral Sea. After their 1991 independence, there was a guarded optimism surrounding the five countries of Central Asia. Today, despite the region's strategic and petroleum importance, the future of these new states appears beached by struggling economies, corruption, authoritarian politics, and the global drug trade.
Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order