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Necessary nationalism? Kyrgyzstan’s relations with the West

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Shairbek Dzhuraev, University of St Andrews   Executive Summary Kyrgyzstan’s relations with the Western countries and international organizations took an interesting twist since the latest regime change in 2010. The country cancelled the major bilateral cooperation treaty with the USA and downgraded its cooperation with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). It has…

Turkmenistan: The 2016 Constitutional Reform

Chiara Loda
By Petra Stykow This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here During the last couple of years, presidents of authoritarian regimes in Central Asia and the Caucasus have been busily engaged in constitutional reforms. Praised as major steps toward the “perfection” and “further democratization” of the political system, such reforms are mostly cosmetic. However,…

Georgia – Proposed constitutional reforms

Chiara Loda
By Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili (@TsurtsumiaA ) This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here Draft amendments to the Constitution of Georgia are currently undergoing nationwide public discussions before being voted on in parliament. Among other significant amendments, the proposed draft foresees moving to a parliamentary form of government with the introduction of indirect presidential elections and changing the electoral system to…

Restricted Data on Development Assistance: The Case of Healthcare Interventions in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan

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by Gulnaz Isabekova Ph.D. candidate at the the Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen PDF file available here: Gulnaz Isabekova Restricted DevelopmentData   Executive Summary The transparency of development assistance is essential to its effectiveness and sustainability. Access to data contributes to better coordination of development programmes, whereas limited information exchange may…

A smooth succession: Uzbekistan’s second president

MariaAD
by Shairbek Dzhuraev , PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews Uncertainty seemed the only certainty when president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov fell critically ill on August 28, 2016. Some feared the regime succession might go awry, bringing different elite factions into open conflict. Others thought of the end of the harsh authoritarian regime.…

The Paradox of Presidential Power under Authoritarianism: Studying the Institutionalization of Russia’s Presidential Administration 1994 – 2012

Chiara Loda
By Fabian Burkhardt (@fa_burkhardt) This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here Rulers cannot rule alone. This simple wisdom is oftentimes forgotten with regard to Putin’s Russia. This blog post summarises a paper presented at the BASEES Annual Conference in Cambridge that attempts a systematic inquiry into the institutionalization of Russia’s ‘institutional presidency’ – the Presidential…

Presidential proxies: Cloaked law-making in contemporary Russia

Chiara Loda
By Ben Noble  (benjamin.noble@politics.ox.ac.uk, @Ben_H_Noble) This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here The Russian newspaper Vedomosti recently reported something that may strike many as rather odd. Drawing on a range of internal sources, the paper claimed that the Russian Presidential Administration was increasingly using members of the Federation Council – the upper chamber of the Federal Assembly,…
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