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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.

Recent reports & briefings
Youth in Central Asia: Losing the New Generation, Asia Report N°66, 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 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 Central Asia : Islamist Mobilisation and Regional Security, report, 01 March 2001