Aijan Sharshenova

Join our IPPA webinar on Civil Society & Think Tanks in Central Asia Wed, 17 Sept.
I’ll present on state–civil society relations in Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan, and Dr. Vera Axyonova (Univ. of Birmingham) will discuss think tanks in Kazakhstan.

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I'm back to Bluesky just for #UACES2025 updates 😅

See you in #Liverpool!

Highly recommend @donnachadcu.bsky.social Unfinished Empire pub’d by @agendapub.bsky.social Clear eyed & perceptive contextual analysis of Russian imperialism, fascinating tour thru Ukraine, Caucasus, Moldova & Belarus. Concise & very accessible, will be staple on Int Rels reading lists for many yrs

The mass party is dead, right?

Not so fast.

Our new book, "Populist Radical Right Parties in Action" explores the puzzle of why several of Europe's most prominent populist radical right parties are successfully reviving this "outdated" model.

The book is completely Open Access 👇

Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 3 - 1 Qatar 🇶🇦

Huge home win for Kyrgyzstan in the World Cup qualifiers even though their chances of qualifying are beyond slim

26 March 2025 - Transnational repression in the UK - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 14:00 - Room 5, Palace of Westminster

FPC’s Director, @skcoughtrie.bsky.social, is speaking tomorrow at an evidence session at @ukparliament.parliament.uk on Transnational repression in the UK

🗓️ Wed 26 March
⏰ 2:15pm
➡️ committees.parliament.uk/event/23773

Gulf States Offer Development Assistance in Central Asia as Western Donors Step Back — Bourse & Bazaar Foundation Engaging in development assistance in Central Asia provides the GCC with an opportunity to boost its influence in the region.

From @aijanco.bsky.social Gulf States Offer Development Assistance in Central Asia as Western Donors Step Back
www.bourseandbazaar.org/articles/202...

Gulf States Offer Development Assistance in Central Asia as Western Donors Step Back — Bourse & Bazaar Foundation Engaging in development assistance in Central Asia provides the GCC with an opportunity to boost its influence in the region.

As Western donors pull back, Gulf states are stepping up aid and development programmes in Central Asia. What is driving this shift?

@aijanco.bsky.social explores the impact for our blog.

Read more here: www.bourseandbazaar.org/articles/202...

#CentralAsia #GulfStates #foreignaid #development

To Russia With Waning Love: Changing Migration Dynamics in Central Asia Russia and Central Asia have been mutually shaped by decades of labor migration, but these long-running ties have begun to fray.

Russia and Central Asia have been mutually shaped by decades of labor migration, but these long-running ties have begun to fray.

@hulegu.bsky.social fyi

Gulf States Offer Development Assistance in Central Asia as Western Donors Step Back — Bourse & Bazaar Foundation Engaging in development assistance in Central Asia provides the GCC with an opportunity to boost its influence in the region.

The cuts to US development aid will be widely felt among grantees in Central Asia, but leaders from the region are eyeing support from other, more neutral donors. As @aijanco.bsky.social explains, the Gulf states are emerging as development donors of choice.
www.bourseandbazaar.org/articles/202...

Three years on: Are sanctions finally hitting home in Central Asia? - The Foreign Policy Centre Last year, on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury published yet another list of sanctioned companies and in...

Meanwhile, caught in the middle, Central Asian governments continue to play a balancing game between China, Russia & the West.

FPC Senior Fellow @aijanco.bsky.social explores this dynamic, with a focus on the impact of sanctions on the region. 5/5

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Postdoctoral Research Position at the Institute of International Studies - INTERFER Project | IMS - Institut mezinárodních studií The Institute of International Studies announces an open call for a postdoctoral research position within the project INTERFER, focused on foreign interference and national and international reactions...

#Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz #Postdoc #AcademicSky
“Foreign Policy Adaptation to the Threat of Foreign Interference in the #EuropeanUnion and #NATO.”
ims.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/post...

Job! Our department just advertised a 4-year Lectureship in Eurasian Studies at Glasgow University.

This is a rare opportunity to join one of Europe's top Area Studies departments, building up our expertise on Central Asia or the Caucasus. More details:

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Good luck at the new place of work!

New article alert!
@adridelrio.bsky.social & Masaaki Higashijima examine at
@cpsjournal.bsky.social the relationship between elite divisions within authoritarian governments and democratization prospects.Check it out!
#OpenAccess #Dictatorsky #comparativesky #CivMilSky #PolSci tinyurl.com/bdf6ryws

“responsible statecraft” 🤨

Central Asia for beginners list Introduction to Central Asia: Beginner's list Last updated: December 2024 Author: Anna Jordanova, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, CzechiaContact (tips for new entries are welcome!):...

Besides the previous reading list on #Afghanistan, we have also one (much larger) on #CentralAsia: including books, podcasts, institutions, language learning... Here too I would be grateful for your tips for new entries! #academicsky
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I applied to this position and didn’t get it - very happy to know that I’ve lost to you! Congratulations!

I had an unpaid internship at a certain nation’s development agency office in Bishkek after my Master’s. They got me busy arranging old newspapers in chronological order. After about a week I quit and applied to PhD scholarship 🤷🏻‍♀️

📢 Publication alert: as part of a special issue on climate dis/misinformation, I published an article comparing the way Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen mobilised environmental issues in their programmes for the presidential campaign.

The article is open access! 🙌

doi.org/10.15847/obs...

Yep, I think it was 2010 - it must have gotten a lot of citations 😬

Romania hit by major election influence campaign, amid Russian cyber-attacks Romania's intelligence service reveals details of what it says is an attempt from abroad to meddle in the country's presidential election.

A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign...
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reactionary Democracy cover

If you like all the new op-eds on the mainstreaming of the far right by gatekeepers and big names, you should read the book ...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Dear academic friends and colleagues, please join us in signing our open letter with the RUTA Association and expressing our support and solidarity with Georgian students and scholars in their ongoing fight for academic freedom, sovereignty, democracy and justice ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

Tulips in Bloom This book comprises five sections: oral literature; pre-Revolutionary written literature; Soviet literature through the Stalin era; Soviet literature

this sees the light of day soon and along with all the other contributors I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the editors

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

ECPS Report

Koskina, Stavroula. (2024). Populism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in the Southern Caucasus. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). November 26, 2024. doi.org/10.55271/rp0...

🚨 Few Days Left! 🚨
We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral fellow for our @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Fletcher project, “Securitization without Security: How Migration is Shaping the Global Order”, funded by Carnegie. #migcitsky
📅 Deadline: 1 Dec
📍 Location: Medford, MA
apply.interfolio.com/157756

Don't miss our new @empirepoduk.bsky.social double bill-

The Foundations of The Mughal Empire:
From Samarkand and Kabul to the Gates of Delhi

Nearly 40% of young Americans get their news from influencers. Many of them lean to the right, study finds | CNN Business Young American adults are increasingly getting their news from social media influencers, a majority of whom are men and lean to the right, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

Young American adults are increasingly getting their news from social media influencers, a majority of whom are men and lean to the right, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.