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Central Asia

From Osh, ICG covers the five Central Asian states - Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - focusing on the region’s main security challenges: drug smuggling, border and resource disputes, corruption, extremism and heavy-handed repression of opponents.

Our Central Asian reports are listed below, starting with the most recent. You can also find reports on specific Central Asian countries by clicking on the relevant country box on the right. You can search for relevant reports using the search box in the top right hand side of this page.

Articles, op-eds, speeches and media releases can be found under the media section.

Recent reports & briefings  
Youth in Central Asia: Losing the New Generation, report, 31 October 2003
Central Asia: Islam and the State, report, 10 July 2003
Radical Islam in Central Asia: Responding to Hizb ut-Tahrir, report, 30 June 2003
Central Asia: Last Chance for Change, briefing, 29 April 2003
Tajikistan: A Roadmap for Development, report, 24 April 2003
Uzbekistan's Reform Program: Illusion or Reality?, report, 18 February 2003
Cracks in the Marble: Turkmenistan's Failing Dictatorship, report, 17 January 2003
Central Asia: The Politics of Police Reform, report, 10 December 2002
The OSCE in Central Asia: A New Strategy, report, 11 September 2002
Kyrgyzstan’s Political Crisis: An Exit Strategy, report, 20 August 2002
Central Asia: Water and Conflict, report, 30 May 2002
Central Asia: Border Disputes and Conflict Potential, report, 04 April 2002
The IMU and the Hizb-ut-Tahrir: Implications of the Afghanistan Campaign, briefing, 30 January 2002
Tajikistan: An Uncertain Peace, report, 24 December 2001
Central Asia: Drugs and Conflict, report, 26 November 2001
Central Asian Perspectives on 11 September and the Afghan Crisis, briefing, 28 September 2001
Kyrgyzstan at Ten: Trouble in the "Island of Democracy", report, 28 August 2001
Central Asia: Uzbekistan at Ten – Repression and Instability, report, 21 August 2001
Central Asia: Fault Lines in the New Security Map, report, 04 July 2001
Incubators of Conflict: Central Asia’s Localised Poverty and Social Unrest, report, 08 June 2001

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