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Roberts Associate Professor in the Practice of International Affairs Director, International Development Studies Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University (GWU) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603772986383-BGL3OWLTN515FWMU5VZ3/Waiting+for+Uyghurstan+title+card.png Home - Waiting for Uighurstan (Documentary, 1996) I made this film as an MA student in Visual Anthropology in 1996. While it is a bit dated technologically as well as in terms of content, it continues to serve as important historical documentation of the borderlands Uyghur culture that developed between the Uyghur region of China and former Soviet Central Asia during the 1990s. It can be watched at a low resolution by clicking the button below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603773165263-FRA5RX6FJZEQX4ULN1PA/Kashgar.jpg Home - Articles on Uyghurs Here you can find links and titles for various articles I have written about the Uyghur people since the early 1990s. These include academic articles, chapters in academic edited volumes, and more popular and policy oriented essays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603772678070-CCBE12X4N6YU2XEETUKZ/Princeton.jpg Home - The War on the Uyghurs (Book, 2020) The War on the Uyghurs tells the story of how the People’s Republic of China employed the US-led Global War on Terror as a means to justify the increased repression of Uyghurs inside China, ultimately culminating in the acts of cultural genocide being committed against this people since 2017. 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There’s Reason to Doubt That Chris Buckley & Stephen Lee Myers The New York Times (9 August 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/00520337-0ed3-4d98-9ce5-17f25cdcdc87/logo-type.png Media Appearances - Demanding an End to Uyghur Oppression: An Interview with Sean R. Roberts Interview by Matthew Byrd Jacobin (29 April 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603770329221-B62XF3PX2ZCVZGWYRRD5/The+Diplomat+logo.png Media Appearances - Urumqi 2009 and the Road to Xinjiang Re-education Centers Michael Clarke The Diplomat (11 July 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603770062293-TV9FBL9OYP5GVQGLYSC5/nyt-logo.png Media Appearances - China’s Prisons Swell After Deluge of Arrests Engulfs Muslims Chris Buckley The New York Times (31 August 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603769979670-Q86PWYADHJ769V3TLZ0Z/East+Asia+Forum+logo.png Media Appearances - Governmentality and the politics of exclusion in Xinjiang Michael Clarke East Asia Forum (17 September 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603769805554-GCAANGNFJFVUO5WMHS37/washington-post-logo.jpg Media Appearances - She survived a Chinese internment camp and made it to Virginia. Will the U.S. let her stay? Emily Rauhala and Anna Fifield The Washington Post (17 November 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603769900424-0P3A6AK9JGP90BPUAJ71/Eurasia+Review+logo.jpg Media Appearances - Uighurs: The Victims Of Hanification – OpEd Habib Siddiqi Eurasia Review (13 October 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603771494308-KMJ0L23HF1P6E8XN28QE/Foreign+Affairs+Inbox+GWU.png Media Appearances - Uighurs in China: A New Kind of Ethnic Cleansing GWU Foreign Affairs Inbox (Podcast) (21 March 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603772382871-NO8VWP78LYXHCQCU816G/RFE-RL+logo.png Media Appearances - Majlis Podcast: The Repercussions Of Beijing’s Policies In Xinjiang Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (9 December 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/06588b61-0d82-442b-85c9-0c43693af8ff/throughline_tile-art_sq-b72bcfb6d8705d7761d4f421f0be3047631b709c.jpg Media Appearances - Five Fingers Crush the Land Throughline (NPR) (May 13, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603772446719-1X9F64C8ERAU2TAAB9Z2/cnn-logo-white-on-red.jpg Media Appearances - 'Cultural genocide': How China is tearing Uyghur families apart in Xinjiang CNN International (15 November 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603771416400-L1ZJMM80G7LM0U36XMDQ/Top+of+Mind.jpg Media Appearances - China’s Mass Incarceration of Muslim Uyghurs May Be a New Form of Ethnic Cleansing, Top of the Mind (BYU Radio) (5 August 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1611286065929-7FIYP7BN0PEZS1F95RIX/cnn-logo-white-on-red.jpg Media Appearances - Uyghur Scholar on trial for ‘Seperatism’ Interview with Kristie Lu Stout CNN International (September 18, 2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1611286065929-7FIYP7BN0PEZS1F95RIX/cnn-logo-white-on-red.jpg Media Appearances - Protests in Kazakhstan Interview with Ivan Watson, CNN International (January 8, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603772264820-6RKXUCYYAYPZD2MXYCAD/cnn-logo-white-on-red.jpg Media Appearances - Uyghur refugee tells of death and fear inside China's Xinjiang camps CNN International (21 January 2019) https://seanrroberts.squarespace.com/thewarontheuyghurs daily 0.75 2024-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1584060688761-AZZYSTKV2TV0A5Q06AV5/The+War+on+the+Uyghurs+-+Princeton.jpg The War on the Uyghurs - Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1625067358052-6V8ZY6HDZYZEYWW4EXGE/Screen+Shot+2021-06-30+at+11.34.45+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Book Review: The War on the Uyghurs: China’s internal campaign against a Muslim m inority By Adeeb Khalid Central Asian Survey June 1, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1610913288113-OH022VWWWWFVNE4O49G8/Screen+Shot+2021-01-17+at+2.53.30+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - The Uyghur Factor: China Perceives Afghanistan as a Threat By Chienyu Shih January 16, 2021 The Sunday Guardian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1610395992389-506JLDJ1R5IX44YLRUVM/Dissent The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Repression in Xi’s China Comparisons of repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang reveals new consolidation of authority in Xi’s CCP, intent on stifling any signs of nonconformity By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Dissent Magazine Winter 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1605111303406-NI9CJQCX3BPLOKFEA8W8/Screen+Shot+2020-11-11+at+11.14.03+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - The U.S. war on terror made life worse for China’s Uighurs By Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian November 10, 2020 AXIOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603120432051-L46V6U68HNP5QAFNLBMZ/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+11.11.17+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - China’s Crackdown on the Uighurs: A Carefully researched study of Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang By Christian Shepherd The Financial Times October 19, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1607574161303-H4754W4MUL030Y7E5UCU/Screen+Shot+2020-12-09+at+11.21.48+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - War on terror or Islamophobia? Book Review of The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Campaign Against Xinjiang’s Muslims By Hasan Suroor Business-Standard (India) December 2, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1608764800036-F5GK1YVWZTRHHH7LR06P/Screen+Shot+2020-12-23+at+6.04.46+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Taking this Islamic movement off terror list was a good thing for Uyghurs, not so much for China By Kyle Haddad-Fonda December 23, 2020 Responsible Statecraft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1607573757801-2TK2WFJK2TA9L44NL6JT/Screen+Shot+2020-12-09+at+11.15.23+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - How Syria’s Civil War drew Uygur Fighters and shaped the separatist group TIP in China’s crosshairs By Amy Chew November 29, 2020 South China Morning Post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1607572608398-IDGNYCU6H9F6BJNE9C2A/Screen+Shot+2020-12-09+at+10.56.01+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Cultural Genocide with Professor Sean Roberts The Burn Bag Podcast November 30, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1613510353684-D1WF7TYX9B780DR3FVML/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+4.14.30+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Capsule Review: The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority By Andrew J. Nathan Foreign Affairs March/April 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1605111020231-4IUZJY71CVOBJQCIPFC2/Screen+Shot+2020-11-11+at+11.08.42+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - How the CCP Manipulated the “War on Terror” for its own “War on the Uyghurs” By Ruth Ingram Bitter Winter November 4, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1629831852517-L92W5MWLYQY4H4F4F95N/Screen+Shot+2021-08-24+at+2.57.06+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority - Book Review By David Brophy Australian Foreign Affairs July 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1625604681318-OZYGT1CUZ4V3HC3NGOEN/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+4.49.28+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - China watches Afghanistan anxiously as the US Withdraws By Stephanie Findlay, Christian Shepherd, & James Kynge July 5, 2021 Financial Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1625067102835-TKYY0B5ZYV27MDA1LSZR/Screen+Shot+2021-06-30+at+11.29.18+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Their Uyghur relatives are imprisoned in China. From Virginia, they plead for help By Meagan Flynn March 19, 2021 Washington Post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1624920128598-3A49KBMYRKYW2LG3XR6A/Screen+Shot+2021-06-28+at+6.41.12+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - These Uyghurs were locked up by the US in Guantanamo. Now, they’re being used as an excuse for China’s crackdown in Xinjiang By James Griffiths May 15, 2021 CNN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603121221785-KWAA8TH42PHV3724DMJ7/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+11.26.15+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Sean R. Roberts on China’s War on the Uyghurs By Catherine Putz September 1, 2020 The Diplomat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603121947797-HM56NZHCHWL6H97340FW/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+11.38.23+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Night Images Reveal Many New Detention Sites in China’s Xinjiang Region By Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy September 24, 2020 The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1607572177981-7L2XS5BI0TVYUTRP4S10/Screen+Shot+2020-12-09+at+10.49.00+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - China: How an Authoritarian Regime Exploited the War on Terror By Shireen Qudosi November 23, 2020 Clarion Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1611859888482-B1V2T55BKBCHXEB16KEM/Screen+Shot+2021-01-28+at+1.50.14+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - «Сохранит санкции», «продолжит давление». Чего ждут от Байдена в связи с репрессиями в Синьцзяне? Айгерим Толеуханова и Нуртай Лаханулы January 28, 2021 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1613840464174-JM7ZVW02VAJ4W6SGN2JR/Screen+Shot+2021-02-20+at+11.59.41+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Saying ‘Not This’ to the Colonization of the Uyghurs By Darren Byler Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel February 18, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1624919418196-F5RABCA50H1E2UGBH35Y/Screen+Shot+2021-06-28+at+6.28.58+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - NS Recommends: New Books from Hard Kunzru, Susan Owens, Mieko Kawakami, and Sean R. Roberts New Statesman September 16, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1625067773798-L8LV9JH3U2YJO7EXZAM2/Screen+Shot+2021-06-30+at+11.41.12+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Islamophobia, Terrorism, and the Uyghurs: When Minorities in China Find Themselves on the Wrong Side of the Counterterrorism Discourse By Sarah Tynen Geopolitics June 1, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/259d4166-cc3a-4f4e-b0b6-29dedefc6cd2/Screen+Shot+2024-09-07+at+1.02.01+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Terrorwashing a Genocide: How the war on terror facilitated Communist China's repression of Uyghurs By Ben Mauk Reason December 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1630423538176-ULNSDZEGIQFKBRRUCX3A/Screen+Shot+2021-08-31+at+11.12.29+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - China in Afghanistan: Trade and Terrorism (Insights from Sean R. Roberts) By Mercy A. Kuo August 2, 2021 The Diplomat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1610724259508-TZW68JM7D1BIM2H6I0YE/Screen+Shot+2021-01-15+at+10.20.24+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - How the Left Can Oppose the Uyghur Genocide By Rebecca Ruth Gould January 14, 2021 Current Affairs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603641603720-483QFCVEJ9643BE2X81F/Screen+Shot+2020-10-25+at+11.58.58+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY) recommends ‘The War on the Uyghurs’ for policy makers on the congressional floor C-SPAN, September 22, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603122164498-HNY96F4BV7QZ0936MD88/Screen+Shot+2020-10-19+at+11.42.14+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Dismantling the counterterror narrative is long overdue The narrative used by US counter-terrorism has been harnessed by China against its Uighurs By Mobashra Tazamal October 15, 2020 Al-Araby (The New Arab) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1624919768542-ELJSOBZIGYFJHG4430QK/Screen+Shot+2021-06-28+at+6.35.24+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Demanding an End to Uyghur Oppression An Interview with Sean R. Roberts by Matthew Byrd April 29, 2021 Jacobin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1630423711036-87G7DWJQRUPQ2PM5L1L4/Screen+Shot+2021-08-31+at+11.27.08+AM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Afghanistan’s Uyghurs Fear the Taliban, and Now China Too By Joel Gunter August 28, 2021 BBC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603642797263-4UGEH7CTWDSU2O2RXBOE/Screen+Shot+2020-10-25+at+12.19.07+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Shan Roberts: ‘Uyghurlärlgha Qarshi Urush’ By Muhämmäd Uyghur The Uyghurs: The Magazine of the Uyghur Culture and Survival September-October, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1584061426036-MSMGZ2KWA5BJZDLLPWPT/War+on+the+Uyghurs-print.jpg The War on the Uyghurs - Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1624920517756-1Q88C1LFY9GFJ0BCBXYY/Screen+Shot+2021-06-28+at+6.47.18+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - What do Chinese People Think is Happening in Xinjiang? By Shannon Tiezzi May 29, 2021 The Diplomat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603119595054-WQQ3L9V3L93O460Q0RBJ/TLS+cover.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Terror and Territory: China’s Treatment of Uighur Culture and Identity By. Nick Holdstock The Times Literary Supplement (London times) September 25, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1611259651118-9HAEZLUFPVLIZTTX5HU0/Screen+Shot+2021-01-21+at+3.05.38+PM.png The War on the Uyghurs - Book - Book Review: The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Campaign Against Xinjiang’s Muslims by Sean R. 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Interview with Sean Roberts Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting (22 June 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1603750288595-DBXCU9BOQUCUMU6ZVMY3/Fair+Observer.png Uyghur Articles - Fear and Loathing in Xinjiang: Ethnic Cleansing in the 21st Century Fair Observer (17 December 2018) https://seanrroberts.squarespace.com/projects-1 daily 0.75 2020-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de55af26b779f2d5a36e726/1584032059879-6QLR4M8GDUSQ3080MSK0/Center+for+a+Public+Anthropology.jpg Projects - Book Project In 2018, my book proposal was one of two winners in the Center For A Public Anthropology International Competition. As a result, I will be writing a book about how the Global War on Terror (GWOT) has facilitated a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ in autocratic states as those states have actively repressed domestic opposition groups by labeling them as terrorists. In many cases, this has both bolstered the power of these regimes and helped to create more ‘terrorists’ for GWOT to fight. This book will build on the argument of my soon-to-be-published book, The War on the Uyghurs, but it will represent a comparative study. that includes the Uyghurs of China, the Tajiks of Tajikistan, the Uzbeks of Uzbekistan, and the Chechens of Russia. You can review my initial book proposal via the button below.