Academic Articles, Policy Papers, and commentaries
on Central Asia

SLAVIC REVIEW.JPG — Doing the Democracy Dance in Kazakhstan: Democracy Development as Cultural Encounter

Slavic Review. 71(2):308-330 (Summer 2012)

NAN Resignation 2019.png — President Nazarbayev’s Resignation: Commentary by Jones, Junisbai, McGlinchey, Roberts, and Schatz

(with Pauline Jones, Azamat Junisbai, Eric McGlinchey, and Edward Schatz)
PONARS Eurasia (March 2019)

GEORGETOWN ASIAN AFFAIRS.png — The Perils of the Autocratic Developmental State Leadership and Presidential Succession in Kazakhstan

Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs
(Winter 2016)

Ukraine crisis and CA.png — The Ukraine Crisis and the Future of Kazakhstan’s Multi-Vector Foreign Policy

PONARS Eurasia, Policy Perspectives (September 2015)

War of Lapels.png — How to Understand the Post-Soviet ‘War of Lapels’

(With Robert Orttung)
The Monkey Cage in The Washington Post
(8 May 2015)

Ukraine Crisis and Central Asia.png — Why Ukraine’s Crisis Keeps Central Asian Leaders up at night

(With Marlene Laruelle)
The Monkey Cage in The Washington Post
(7 March 2014)

Kazakhstan Succession Crisis.png — Resolving Kazakhstan’s Unlikely Succession Crisis

PONARS Eurasia, Policy Perspectives (September 2012)

Kazakhstan and US.png — Kazakhstan and the United States: Twenty Years of Ambiguous Partnership

Atlantic Council Issue Brief (January 2012)

What's Ethnicity Got to do with it.png — What’s Ethnicity Got To Do With It? Healing the Wounds of Uzbek-Kyrgyz Violence in the Ferghana Valley

(PONARS Policy Memo No. 106)
Kyrgyzstan: Recovery and Reformation, Policy Perspectives. (August 2010)

Century Foundation. 2009.png — Saving Democracy Promotion from Short-Term Foreign Policy Interests in Central Asia

A Century Foundation Report
(Century Foundation 2009)

In case you are looking for posts from my old blog (Roberts Report on Central Asia and Kazakhstan - 2006-2010), the archive is accessible below…

Roberts Report Archive