Associate Professor
Contact Information
emcglinc@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-2960
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 313
4400 鶹 Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4
Personal Websites
Biography
Eric McGlinchey is an associate professor of politics and government and director of the undergraduate International Relations Policy Task Force at George Mason 鶹’s Schar School of Policy and Government.
McGlincheyis the author of Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (2011). Grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the International Research & Exchanges Board, the Social Science Research Council, and the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Defense have funded his research. McGlinchey has published widely in academic journals and the popular press and has contributed to U.S. government studies on China's reception in Central Asia, Political Party Assistance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and Violence and Insurgency in Central Asia.
He received his PhD from Princeton 鶹
Curriculum Vitae
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Associate Professor of Government
Director,InternationalRelations PolicyTaskForce
ScharSchoolofPolicyandGovernment
George Mason 鶹
GeorgeMason鶹,341ResearchHall
4400鶹Drive, Fairfax,VA22030
703-993-2960
emcglinc@gmu.edu
ACADEMICEMPLOYMENT
GeorgeMason 鶹,Fairfax,VA
Associate Professor of Government and Politics, August 2011-Present. AssistantProfessorofGovernmentandPolitics,August 2005-August2011.
IowaState鶹,Ames,IA
AssistantProfessorofPoliticalScience, August2003-July 2005.
Stanford鶹,Stanford,CA
PostdoctoralFellow inCentral AsianStudies,August 2002-July2003.
EDUCATION
Princeton鶹,Princeton,NewJersey
Ph.D.inPolitics,January 2003.
VassarCollege, Poughkeepsie,NewYork
B.A.withHonors inPoliticalScience (PhiBetaKappa, GeneralHonors),1995.
Yaroslavl’ State 鶹, Yaroslavl’, Russian Federation
VisitingStudent,1993-1994.
BOOK
2011.Chaos,Violence andDynasty:Politics andIslam inCentral Asia(鶹of Pittsburgh Press).
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2020.“GDZԲԳandorder-makinginCentralAsia: fromilliberalismtoDz-?” Central Asian Survey39:3 (Fall 2020), co-authored with Philipp Lottholz, John Heathershaw, Aksana Ismailbekova, Janyl Moldalieva, and Catherine Owen.
2016.“LSuccession, GreatPowerAmbitions,andtheFutureofCentralAsia, ”Central Asian Affairs3:3 (July).
2014.“FastForwardingtheBrezhnevYears: OshinFlames,”RussianHistory41(3). 2012.“FǰPolicyandAgingCentral AsianAutocrats,”Demokratizatsiya 20(3).
2011.“EǰԲRegimeInstability andEthnicViolenceinٲ,”AsiaPolicy12(July). 2009. “Searching for Kamalot: Political Patronage and Youth Politics in 쾱ٲ,” Europe-AsiaStudies 61(7):1137-1150.
2009.RevivalismandStateFailure inٲ,”ProblemsofPost- Communism56(3): 16-28.
2007.“A徱ԲtheInternet inCentralAsia, ”withEricaJ.Johnson, Democratization14(2):273- 288.
2006.Leaders in쾱ٲ,”AsiaPolicy1(1):123-144.
2006.“TMakingofMilitants:TheStateandIslam inCentral,” ComparativeStudies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East25(3): 554-566.
2004.“KyrgyzstanCountryReport, ”inCountriesattheCrossroads:ASurveyofGovernance, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law in 30 States(Freedom House): 1-18.
2000. “Contours of Discontent? Demographics and Perceptions of Governance in Kazakhstanandٲ,”JournalofCentralAsian Studies5(1):14-30.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND OTHER ACADEMIC ARTICLES
2021. “Contested Property and Local Power in Central ,” in D. Montgomery, ed., Central AsiainContext: AThematicIntroductionto theRegion(鶹ofPittsburghPress, forthcoming).
2012.“CԳٰ AsiaGrowsWobbly,” CurrentHistory(October).
2009.“CԳٰAsianProtest Movements,”inA.WoodenandC.Stefes, eds., ThePoliticsof Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus(Routledge).
2007.“CdzپԲIslams:TheEverydayStruggle forFaithin쾱ٲ,”inJ.Sahadeo &R. Zanca, eds., Everyday Life in Central Asia(Indiana 鶹 Press).
2005.“Aܳٴdzٲ,Islamists,andtheRiseofRadicalisminCentral,” CurrentHistory104 (October).
2004.“PܲOpinion Research inKazakhstanandٲ,”inJohnG.Geer,ed.,
PublicOpinion andPollingAround theWorld(ABC-CLIO).
COMMISSIONEDSTUDY (PEER-REVIEWED WITHIN THE US GOVERNMENT)
2019.“China’sMixedReception inCentralAsia, ”in ChineseStrategicIntentions:ADeepDive into China’s Worldwide Activities(Department of Defense Strategic Multilayer Assessment White Paper).
2013.“VDZԳExtremismandInsurgencyinTajikistan:ARiskԳ,”(USAID- commissioned study).
2013.“VDZԳExtremismandInsurgency inKazakhstan:ARiskԳ,”(USAID- commissioned study).
2013.“VDZԳExtremismandInsurgency inCentralAsia:ARiskԳ,”(USAID- commissioned study).
2007.AStudyof PoliticalParty Assistancein EasternEuropeandEurasia,co-author (USAID-commissioned study).
OPINIONARTICLES ANDPOLICYPAPERS
2021.“Tpopulistandnationalistthreat tohumanrights in ٲ,”ForeignPolicy Centre (March2021).
2020.“Tlimits of²ԲٴDz’sStaying Powerin Central,”CrossroadsPolicy BriefNo. 3-2020 (June2020). Russian languageDz:“ПѶеделыВозможностей Вашингтона Сохранять Позиции в Центральной Азии.”
2019.“QuestioningSinophobiainCentralAsia, ”PONARSEurasiaPolicyMemono.630, (December).
2019."ExplainingGreatPowerStatusinCentralAsia:UnfamiliarityandپDzԳٱԳ,”Minerva Owl in the Olive Tree Post (October), co-authored with Marlene Laruelle.
2019. “Kazakh President Nazarbayev Has Resigned,” Washington Post(20 March 2019).
2018.“TChangingLandscapeofUncivilSociety inٲ,”TheForeignPolicy Centre (July).
2018.“ĘUTerrorism’ andtheLogicalInconsistenciesofExtremeVetting, ”PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 500 (January)
2017.ԱɾԲEUandUSSoftPowerinCentral ,”EUCAMCommentaryNo.28 (October, with Marlene Laruelle)
2016.“FǰPolicy ConsequencesofHomegrownEurasianپDzԲ,”PONARSEurasia
PolicyMemoNo.418,(February)
2015.“CԳٰAsia’s Autocrats: GeopoliticallyStuck,Politically,”PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 380 (August)
2013.“States ofProtestinCentral,” PONARSEurasia PolicyMemoNo.299(September).
2013.“Eurasia 2014: Into Thin Air,” Central Asia Policy Brief No. 10, Central Asia Program, GeorgeWashington鶹Elliot SchoolofInternationalAffairs(June)
2010.“Running inCircles inٲ,” TheNewYorkTimes(Op-Ed,April10)
2009. “ThreePerspectivesonPoliticalIslam inCentral,” PONARSEurasiaPolicyMemo No. 76(September)
2008. “AnOpeningin쾱ٲ,”PONARSEurasia PolicyMemoNo.14(August)
2008. “Food,ProtestandPoliticalInstabilityinCentralAsia, ”GlobalStudiesReview(Summer)
2008. “Patronage,Islam,andtheRiseofLocalisminCentralAsia, ”PONARSEurasiaPolicy MemoNo.2 (March)
2007. “LinkingInternationalDevelopmentandPoliticalParty BuildinginCentralAsiaandthe Caucuses,” GlobalStudiesReview(Summer)
2005. “Avoiding the Great GameandDomesticUnrestinEurasia,”PONARSPolicyMemoNo. 402,CenterforStrategicandInternationalStudies (December)
2005. “RevolutionsandReligioninCentralAsia, ”PONARSPolicyMemo364 (June)
2005. “KyrgyzDemocracyGets SecondChance,”RadioFree Europe/Radio Liberty(April8)
2003. ForLife: LeadershipSuccessioninPost-Soviet CentralAsia, ”PONARSPolicyMemo 312 (November)
2000. “Powerlessinٲ,”RadioFree Europe/Radio Liberty(July)
BOOKREVIEWS
2019.,Society,andPoliticsinCentralAsia, ”PaulineJones,ed.,reviewed inSlavic Review, Volume 77, Issue 4 Winter 2018: pp. 1090-1093.
2014.“UԱǴdzٲResourcesandUnrulyElites inCentralAsia, ”byLwarenceMarkowitz, reviewed in Central Asian Affairs1(2): 303-305.
2008.“Russia’s Islamicճ,”byGordonM.Hahn,reviewed in SlavicReview, Winter2008. 2006.“Modern Clan Politics: The Power of ‘Blood’ in Kazakhstan and Beyond,” by Edward
Schatz,reviewed in MiddleEastJournal60(4):805-807.
CONGRESSIONALHEARINGS AND BRIEFINGS
2010. “ARegioninCrisis–TheViolentConflictin ٲ,”CongressionalHearing, July1.
2010. “Corruption,Repression,ExtremisminCentralAsia: LookingBeyond ٲ,” CongressionalBriefing(Co-Sponsored:House ForeignAffairs CommitteeandRadio Free Europe/RadioLiberty),May19.
2009. “ApproachingtheOSCEChairmanship:Kazakhstan2010,”CongressionalHearing, May12.
2008. “Prospects forChangeinTurkmenistan,”CongressionalHearing,November19.
2008. “Uzbekistan:ThreeYearsAfter Andijan,”CongressionalBriefing,May13.
2006. “Democracy inTajikistan:Preview ofthePresidentialElection”CongressionalBriefing, October 26.
FACULTYRESEARCHGRANTS
2017-2019.U.S.DepartmentofDefenseMinerva Initiative,“TErosion ofU.S.SoftPowerin Central ,” Principal Investigator (Professor Marlene Laruelle, Co-Principal Investigator).
2015-2017.U.S.DepartmentofState,Embassy toGeorgia,“UԾٲPublicPolicy Research in Georgia,” Co-Principal Investigator.
2012-Present.U.S.DepartmentofState,Embassy toGeorgia“Gʴ-ѲDzPublic Administration Partnership,” Co-Principal Investigator.
2010-2013. U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education(FIPSE),Co-PrincipalInvestigator,“AUS-RussiaCollaboration:Reading Networked Societies.”
2008-2015.Soros/OpenSociety InstituteFellowship,Central AsianResearchand Training Initiative.
2010-2011.National AsiaResearchProgram, NationalBureauofAsian ResearchandWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
2003-2010.NationalScience FoundationFellowship,Co-PrincipalInvestigator,“TEffect of the Internet on Society: Incorporating Central Asia into the Global Perspective,” Award #0326101.
2009.SocialScience ResearchCenterFellowship,PrincipalInvestigator,Teaching Islam in Central Asia.
2007-2008.SocialScience ResearchCenterEurasiaTeaching Fellowship.
2006-2007.NationalCouncil forEurasianandEastEuropean ResearchFellowship,Principal Investigator, Islam and Social Mobilization in Central Asia.
2003-2004.IowaState鶹 FacultyDevelopmentGranttosupport researchonPolitical Islam in Central Asia.
2003-2004.IowaState鶹SmallResearchGranttosupportVisiting ResearchAssistant from the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences.
DEPARTMENTALANDUNIVERSITYSERVICE
2021-Present.Director, ScharSchoolInternationalRelationsPolicyTaskForce 2019-Present. Schar School Curriculum Committee
2021.PhDComprehensiveExamsComparativePolitics CommitteeChair 2020. 鶹 Fulbright Committee
2020. Stearns Center Online Course Development Primer, Faculty Co-Lead 2018-2019.PhDComprehensiveExamsComparativePolitics CommitteeChair 2016-2019. GMU Fulbright Selection Committee
2016.PhDComprehensiveExamsComparativePolitics CommitteeChair 2016. PhD Admissions Committee
2013-2015.Director of GraduateStudies,School ofPolicy,Government,&InternationalAffairs. 2011-2013. GMU Fulbright Selection Committee
2012. Center for Global Studies Working Groups Grant Selection Committee. 2010-Present.AliVuralAkCenterforGlobalIslamic StudiesSteeringCommittee. 2009-2011. Faculty Advisor, GMU Graduate Political Science Society.
2008.GraduateCurriculumCommittee.
2008,2011,2012.PhDQualifyingExamsCommittee,ComparativePolitics. 2008. Undergraduate Honors Program Admissions Committee.
2007. Graduate Program Executive Committee. 2007.GraduateProgram AdmissionsCommittee. 2007. Bio Defense Faculty Search Committee.
2005.FacultySearch Committee(American Foreign Policy).
2010.FacultyGrantCommittee,AliVuralAkCenterforGlobalIslamic Studies.
2010.PostdoctoralScholarSearchCommittee,AliVuralAkCenterfor GlobalIslamicStudies. 2009-Present. Center for Global Studies Steering Committee.
2009.GlobalAffairs FacultySearch Committee.
2009.OfficeofInstitutionalAssessmentAcademicProgram ReviewCommittee. 2009. Gorbachev 1989 Committee.
2008-Present. Global Affairs Faculty Steering Committee. 2008.SpiresofExcellenceCommittee(ProvostCommittee).
2008.GMU-Soros DoctoralFellowshipProgram, Candidateinterviews,Dushanbe,Tajikistan. 2007-Present. Eurasia Studies Program Steering Committee.
2007.GlobalAffairs DirectorSearch Committee.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2019. SelectionCommittee, OpenSocietyFoundationCivilSocietyScholar Awards Program
2015-2018.MemberofExecutiveCommittee,PONARSEurasia.
2014.Selection Committee International Research & Exchanges BoardIARO Fellowship.
2012.SelectionCommittee InternationalResearch&ExchangesBoardUSEmbassyPolicy SpecialistProgram.
2010-2012.Elected Member,BoardofDirectors,CentralEurasia Studies Society.
2010-2012.Member, EurasiaProgramAdvisory Board,SocialScienceResearch Council.
2010. SelectionCommitteeMember,EurasiaDissertation SupportFellowship,SocialScience ResearchCouncil.
2009. SelectionCommitteeChair, DiplomacyFellowshipinScience and Technology, AmericanAssociationforthe AdvancementofScience.
2008. Selection CommitteeMember,Diplomacy FellowshipinScienceandTechnology, AmericanAssociationforthe AdvancementofScience.
2008. SelectionCommitteeforBestGraduateStudentPaperAward, CentralEurasiaStudies Society.
2007. BookReviewEditor forCentralEurasianStudiesReview.
EditorialBoards:ProblemsofPostCommunism,CentralAsianAffairs
Reviewer: American Councils, American Political Science Review, Asia Policy, Comparative PoliticalStudies, ComparativePolitics,Cornell 鶹Press,Europe–AsiaStudies, Demokratizatsiya, Freedom House Freedom in the World & Nations in Transit, Governancel, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Terrorism, Oxford 鶹 Press, Problems of Post- Communism, National Science Foundation, Natinality Papers, Political Science Quarterly, Religion, State and Society, Slavic Review, Social Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilofCanada, 鶹ofPittsburgh Press, 鶹 of Washington Press, World Politics
ADDITIONALACADEMIC HONORS
2003.InternationalResearch &ExchangesBoard ShortTermTravelGrantawarded for summer field research in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
2001.SocialScience ResearchCenterResearchWorkshop,DzԴھܰԲRegions,Localities and Histories: Transformations of Central Asian and Caucasian Societies.”
1999-2000. International Research & Exchanges BoardIndividual Advanced Research OpportunitiesFellowshipfordissertationresearch(KazakhstanandKyrgyzstan).
1998-1999.PrincetonCouncil onRegionalStudies fellowshipfordissertationfieldresearch (Summer 1998, Kyrgyzstan; Uzbek Language Summer 1999).
1998.Mellon FoundationSummer Fellowship for dissertation research and methodology. 1997-1998.ForeignLanguage AreaStudiesFellowshipawarded forStudiesinRussian(1997-
1998,Princeton鶹;Summer1997,Nevsky Institute,St. Petersburg).
1996-1997.Princeton RussianStudiesFellow.
1996-2002.Princeton 鶹Fellowship(Full award,1996-1997,1998-1999,2000-2002). 1995-1996. Thomas J. WatsonNational Fellowship awarded for independent research (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,Turkmenistan,RussianFederation).
INVITEDTALKS
2021.USDepartmentofState,“Kٲ:Post-Third𱹴DZܳپDz,”March30.
2020.USDepartmentofState,“PپDzԲoftheUS,China,andRussia:Findings from Kazakh and Kyrgyz Focus Groups,” February 21.
2017. ForeignServiceInstitute,“AmericanNegotiatingCrisis inCentral,”August29, 2017.
2016. ForeignServiceInstitute,“CԳٰAsian:Regional Trends,”May16,Arlington,VA.
2016. Yale鶹,“BetweenAnarchyandthePoliceState: Geopoliticsand International DevelopmentinCentralAsia, A Roundtable,”January25,New Haven,CT.
2015. Foreign ServiceInstitute,“CԳٰAsianAuthoritarianism,”April20,Arlington,VA.
2015. GeorgeWashington鶹,KeynoteSpeech,TrackingFactorsofChange in TajikistanConference,“Using a Wide LenstoAssess theNarrowRiskofRadicalIslam inղᾱ쾱ٲ,”March10,Washington,D.C.
2015. Georgetown鶹,25thAnnualNavai’i-NalleAnnual Lecture,“Negotiating Crisis inCentral,” February26,Washington,D.C.
2014. Foreign ServiceInstitute,“State, Society,andReligioninCentralAsia, ”October15, Arlington, VA.
2014. TheOhioState 鶹, KeynoteSpeechforthe2014MidwestSlavicConference “A TheftSoNice, TheyDiditTwice:FleecingLocalPopulationsandForeignInvestorsin Central,”March28,Columbus,OH.
2014. 鶹 ofPittsburgh,“Hands Off!PropertyRights and PredatoryCentralAsian States,”March22,Pittsburgh,PA.
2013. 鶹ofWisconsin,“CDz,Violence,Dynasty andCentralAsianSociety:The UntoldStory,”October3,Madison,WI.
2013. Bowdoin College, andState SovereigntyinCentral,”February28, Brunswick, ME.
2013. 鶹 ofPittsburgh,KeynoteSpeechforthe10Annual REES /GOSECA Graduate StudentConference,“GeopoliticalThreats:PerceptionandRealityinCentral,” February22,PittsburghPA.
2011. WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholars,“CDz,Violence,Dynasty:Politics andIslaminCentralAsia, ”BookPresentation,WashingtonDC,November17.
2011. National Defense鶹,“PerspectivesonCentralAsian Islam,”Washington,DC, November 7.
2011. Wesleyan鶹,“Fast ForwardingtheBrezhnevYears:Oshin Flames,” Middletown,CT,October21.
2011. American 鶹ofCentralAsia,ternationalChallengestoCentralAsian Security,” Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan, June15,2011.
2011. USStateDepartment,“TPoliticsofUzbekPresidentialSuccession,March28.
2010. SocialScienceResearchCouncil,“DoesKyrgyzstan Matter?”Webinar,May24.
2009. OpenSocietyInstitute,“Implications ofUSSecurityPoliciesforPoliticalReformand HumanRights intheRegion,”Washington,D.C., June24.
2009. 鶹 ofToronto,“FridaysinAndijan:LocalizedIslamandtheErosionof CentralizedAutocracy,”March13.
2008. USStateDepartment,Kazakhstan,“PDZپParty Formation inCentral,”Astana, Kazakhstan,May27.
2008. 鶹 ofLondon,School of Oriental and African Studies, “Patronage, Islam and the FadingCentralAsian State,”April24.
2008. 鶹ofMichigan,“TBlurredBorders ofStateandIslaminCentral,” Ann Arbor,MI, January 9.
2007. American鶹ofCentralAsia, “EvolvingIslamicIdentitiesinCentral,” Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan,November28.
2007.StateDepartmentBriefingonPolitical PartyAssistanceinEasternEurope andEurasia, Washington, D.C., October 9.
2007.CentralEuropean鶹,“PDZپScienceApproachestoStateandReligionin Central ,” Budapest, Hungary, August 14 & 15.
2007.GeorgeWashington鶹NationalSecurityStudies Program,“TԻinCentral Asian ʴDZپ,” Washington, D.C., June 15.
2007.GeorgeWashington鶹WorkshoponPost-Communism,ԨdzܳٳMobilization and the Future of Uzbek ʴDZپ,” Washington, D.C., May 4.
2007. Texas A&M,andUzbekʴDZپ,”College Station,TX,April30.
2007.RadioFreeEurope,Radio Liberty, Activists andSovietAutocrats:Negotiating Myth and Reality in Central ,” Washington, D.C., April 26.
2007.CentreforOSCEResearch,鶹ofHamburg, “ApproachesandResults ofUSAID Democratization Assistance,” Hamburg, Germany, January 31.
2007.U.S.CommissionOnInternationalReligious FreedomBriefing andtheCenterfor Strategic and International Studies, “State Policy and Islam in ٲ,” Washington D.C., January 11.
2006.InternationalInstituteforStrategicStudies, “NewPartnerorNewProblem: USViews toward the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,” London, January 27.
2006.WoodrowWilson InternationalCenterforScholars,“After Andijan:Authoritarianism, Islam, and Social Mobilization in Central ,” Washington, D.C., January 17.
2005.IREXStateDepartmentBriefingonKyrgyz PresidentialElections,Washington,D.C., July 26.
2005.CenterforStrategicandInternationalStudies CongressionalBriefing onCentralAsia, Washington, D.C., June 14.
2004.Yale鶹, “ConstructingMilitantOpposition: AuthoritarianRule and Political IslaminCentral ,”CentralAsiaandtheCaucasusinaGlobalizedWorldLecture Series, April 6.
2004.Northwestern鶹,“AܳٳǰٲRuleandMilitant IslaminCentral ,” Comparative Politics Lecture Series, April 19.
2002.Stanford鶹,“CԳٰ Asia:Democracyٱ,”Stanford鶹Centerfor Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 19.
CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS
2020. “T Limits of ²ԲٴDz’s Staying Power in Central ,” Hollings Center for International Dialogue Conference, “Thirty Years of Central Asia’s International Relations:Taking StockandLooking Forward,”American鶹ofCentralAsia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, March 4.
2019.“CԳٰAsiainDzԳٱ,”CentralEurasian StudiesSociety AnnualConference, Washington, October 10, 2019.
2019.“GPowerInfluence inCentral,”MinervaMeetingand ProgramReview, Washington, September 18.
2019.“QuestioningSinophobiainCentralAsia, ”PONARS Eurasia/CSIS,Washington, September 12.
2019.“Between participation, patronage and coercion: Exploring varieties of governance and order-making inCentral Eurasia,”16thBiennial Conferenceof theEuropean Societyfor Central Asian Studies, 鶹 of Exeter, June 29.
2019.“PDZٲintheCentralAsianDzԳٱ,”16th BiennialConferenceoftheEuropean Society for Central Asian Studies, 鶹 of Exeter, June 27.
2018.“GPowerConnectionsinCentral,”STIX:Science, Technology,andInnovation Exchange,Basic ResearchOfficeof the Department ofDefense,USInstituteforPeace, December 11.
2018.“USoftPower: TheViewfromٲ,”Central EurasianStudiesSociety Annual Conference, 鶹 of Pittsburgh, October 25.
2018.“TErosionofU.S.SoftPowerinٲ,”Associationfor theStudyof Nationalities, New York, NY, May 5.
2018.“ĘCԳٰAsianTerrorism’ andtheLimitsofExtreme Vetting,”CentralAsianSecurity Workshop, George Washington 鶹, Washington, D.C., March 20.
2018.“Presidential Transitions and the Implications for US Soft Power in Central ,” CentralAsianSecurityWorkshop,GeorgeWashington鶹,Washington,D.C., March 6.
2017.“U.S. Soft Power in Central ,” PONARS Eurasia, Washington, D.C., September 16. 2015.“ViolenceinKazakhstanandղᾱ쾱ٲ,”AssociationfortheStudy ofNationalities,New York, NY,April24.
2015.,SecularismandSecurityinٲ,”British CouncilBridgingVoices Workshop, George Washington 鶹, Washington, D.C. April 20.
2014.ٳٰٱforCircumventingAuthoritarianDzԳٰDZ,”AmericanPolitical Science Association, Washington, D.C, August 29.
2014.ٱٳٱԲScoresinCentralAsia, ”AssociationfortheStudyofNationalities,NewYork, NY, April 25.
2013.“TStateofSocialMobilizationinCentralAsia, ”CentralEurasianStudies Society Annual Conference, Madison, WI, October 4.
2012.“CDz,ViolenceandDynasty:Politics andIslamin Central,”BookPanel, Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY, April 20.
2012.“T Timid Autocratic: Domestic Might and International Stage Fright in Central Asian ForeignʴDZ,”MidwestPolitical ScienceAssociationAnnualConference,Chicago, IL, April 15.
2011.“GDZԲԳinCentral Asia’sStatelessձٴǰ,”MidwestPoliticalScience Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2.
2010. “PDZپ Discontent in Asia—Kyrgyz Chaos,” National Bureau of Asian Research and WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholars AsiaPolicyAssembly, Washington DC, June 17.
2010.ForeignServiceInstitute,USStateDepartment,“TԴDZDz,Internetand Communication Tools in Central ,” Arlington, VA, March 1.
2009.ForeignService Institute,USStateDepartment, “CԳٰAsiaandChallengesFacing Democracy Assistance,” Arlington, VA, October 21.
2009.“TԲپDzԲ2.0:TheInternet,PoliticalCulture and AutocracyinCentral ,” American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 5.
2008.“AܳٴdzپImplosion:Patronage,Islam andtheRiseofLocalism inCentral,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 22.
2008.“TStateofDiscourseortheState’s DiscourseonIslaminCentral Asia?”Princeton 鶹 Conference on Re-Thinking Sectarianism, Princeton, NJ, May 21.
2007.“FdzܲԻ岹پDzԲofKyrgyzstan'sIslamic Renaissance,”AmericanAssociationforthe Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, LA, November 17.
2007.“MԲShadesofGreen:VariationsinIslam-CenteredMobilizationinٲ’sNew Color 𱹴DZܳپDz,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 31.
2007.“A徱ԲPoliticalParties inCentralAsiaand the䲹ܳܲ,”InternationalStudies Association, Chicago, IL, March 1.
2006.Brookings-UNDPConferenceon“TChallengesandOpportunitiesofRegional Cooperation and Integration in Central Asia," Washington, D.C., March 27.
2006.ԨdzܳٳandUzbekʴDZپ,”American AssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavic Studies, Washington, DC, November 18.
2005.“FǰAidandICTPolicy inCentral,”(EricaJohnson,co-author),American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1.
2005.ԴڴǰپDzCommunicationTechnology(ICT) and Its EffectonPoliticalMobilization inCentralAsia, ”USDepartmentofStateConference, ԨdzܳٳinTransition:Eurasia and Central/East Europe,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., August 15.
2005.Leadersin쾱ٲ,”SocialScienceResearch CouncilSummerInstitute, “Teaching Islam in Eurasia,” Kazan, Russia, June 20-July 3.
2005.“TPatternsofStructuralCorruptioninCentral,”Northwestern鶹,Center for International and Comparative Studies Conference on “Identifying Self-Repairing Dynamics in Post-Conflict Societies: The Caucasus and Central ,” February 3-5.
2005.ྱٲDivide inCentral Asia:ComparingISPʴDZ,”Midwest PoliticalScience Association, Chicago, IL, April 7-10.
2004.“CԳٰ Asian Protest Movements: Domestic Forces and International Resources,” AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies, Boston,MA,December.
2004.“WStates,ImpoverishedSocietiesandRichRulers:TheMakingofAuthoritarian Rule in Eastern Europe and Central ,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, September.
2004.“Divided Faith:TensionsBetweenState andIslamin Central,”CenterforStrategic and International Studies Academic Conference, Seattle, Washington, May.
2004.“TMakingofMilitants:State andIslaminCentral ,”MidwestPoliticalScience Association, Chicago, April.
2003.ForLife: LeadershipSuccessioninPost-Soviet CentralAsia, ”CenterforStrategic and International Studies Policy Conference, Washington, DC, December.
2003.“Adzǻ岹پDzorRepression:StateResponsesto PoliticalIslaminCentral ,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Canada, November.
2003.“TǰԳorTransformation?TheFutureofOppositionMovements inCentral,” Central Eurasian Studies Society, Cambridge, MA, October.
2003.“CԳٰAsia:AuthoritarianSolutions FollowDemocraticԲپٳܳپDzԲ,”Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.
2002.“CdzԳToday, GoneTomorrow? ComparingKyrgyzandKazakhPolitical Change,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, November.
2001.“PDZپOrder inCentralAsiandzپ,”American AssociationfortheAdvancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., November.
2001.“C貹ٲorCollapse? NationBuildinginKyrgyzstanandٲ,”Associationfor the Study of the Nationalities, Columbia 鶹, April.
1999.“Kٲ:ACaseofState DecentralizationinPost-SovietCentral,”Sixth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana 鶹, March.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Comparative Politics Research Methods Central Asian Politics InternationalRelations
Areas of Research
- Central Asia
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Foreign Policy
- International Development
- International Migration
- International Relations
- Political Violence
- Qualitative Methods