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Machiavelli in Russia’s near abroad

Fikret Elma (Celal Bayar) and Sarvar Gurbanov (Qafqaz): Central Asia in the Globalization Process: Comparative Analysis of Human Development and Socio-Economic Situation. Raj Kumar Kothari (Vidyasagar): Russia’s Policy towards Central Asia in the Post Soviet Years. Kalman Kalotay (UNCTAD): FDI in the Former Soviet Periphery in Six Charts. Peter Rozic (Santa Clara): Religion Matters: Quantifying the Impact of Religious Legacies on Post-Communist Transitional Justice. Mukesh Kumar Mishra (UNESCO) and Sanjeev Anand (Alberta): US Policy and Interest in the Post-Soviet Caspian Region. Max de Haldevang on Kyrgyzstan and the Uzbeks. Karakalpakstan — the name sounds made up, but it's a real place; essentially, a forlorn, windswept, ecodisaster-ridden corner of Central Asia. From World Affairs, dispatch from Armenia: Katya Cengel on the not so frozen war; and dueling narratives: Lincoln Mitchell on storytelling and spin in Georgia. An excerpt from Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia by Martin Demant Frederiksen. Kevork Oskanian on Kant versus Machiavelli in Russia's near abroad. James Surowiecki on Putin’s power play: Brandishing the gas weapon. What is motivating Putin? Joshua Tucker on four different possible explanations with different implications for the future. Galymzhan Kirbassov on why the leaders of Kazakhstan are not (yet) losing sleep over Crimea. Vladimir Putin, international lawyer: Eric Posner annotates Putin’s speech to the Duma on Crimea. Paul Berman on how the revolutions of 1989 are not over — and neither is the resistance to them. Edit war rages on Wikipedia surrounding status of Crimea. Britt Peterson on the long war over the Ukrainian language: Don’t call it Little Russian — why the Ukraine’s lingua franca is a hot point.