Hello, Central Asia Watchers, and welcome! This quotation comes from the Say It In Kazakh Web page of the Kazakhstan Embassy to the United States and Canada.
Click here for a table of Central Asia Flash Facts; go to the “Worth Reading” Page of this blog for a kind of running bibliography of non-Internet source material.
The first week or so on the Central Asia Web log ("blog") for the Foreign Policy Association will be devoted to new Central Asian developments paired with significant Background Information, for those of you that might be newly interested in this important and fascinating region. One intermittent series of posts, starting this week, will look at Kazakhstan's very active First Family.
The Foreign Policy Association has dedicated certain months to each issue area covered in the Great Decisions series for 2007. Therefore I will also be posting with emphasis on children's issues, migration, and other of these issues, and may draw your attention to great entries in other FPA Web logs that relate to Central Asia and its many, interesting concerns.
Also, for those of you who unfailingly count down the minutes to the weekend, I'll be including an intermittent "Casual Friday"‚ because not everything that is important about Central Asia is included in international relations theory or economics . . . . some of the most important aspects of Central Asia are cultural‚ cuisine, dress, manners, jokes, literature, fine and applied arts, and architecture‚ that which makes us happy, elevates us, and sustains friendships in an otherwise empty world.
A few months ago, I wrote about the early stages of the conflict in Ukraine through the lens of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. While it appears likely that the war will carry on into the foreseeable future, enough time has passed for us to make an honest assessment of each side’s relative […]
The Ukrainian Army has made dramatic strides in the last few weeks. Ukraine’s tactical commanders have outfoxed their Russian counterparts, and by issuing a feint towards the south the UA has been able to earn substantial gains in the north of their country. The impact of these efforts have been compounded by the steady stream […]
In mid-May the Irish political party, Sinn Féin, won the plurality of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Many American readers might not fully understand the significance of Sinn Féin’s political victory- but rest assured that subjects of the United Kingdom and a wide range of political movements the world over have heard the message […]
The first wave of the Russian offensive in Ukraine has fallen short of Russian autocrat Vladmir Putin’s ambitions. Most analysts deduced that Putin had hoped to achieve a decapitation strike of the Ukrainian government- taking Kiev and replacing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zolinski with a pro-Kremlin voice. Kiev has been threatened repeatedly through the course of […]
On the weekend of March 26th, the notorious MS-13 gang went on a massive killing spree in El Salvador which left more than 70 people dead by Sunday. Even for a country where powerful gangs hold massive sway, this recent tragedy stands out considering that it was the bloodiest day on record since the civil […]
