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The Central Asia climate cards deck policy position paper

  • Climate Change
  • Hugh McLean, Saule Kalikova
  • August 11, 2026
The TURN IT AROUND! cards show that young people across Central Asia are already articulating clarity, urgency and moral imagination.
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Kazakhstan’s uranium bargain: Trading resources for technology

  • The Argument
  • Antoine Magnier
  • July 7, 2026
This paper maps the evolution of Sino-Kazakh nuclear cooperation, examines the interests that drive it, and considers the opportunities and risks that may emerge as the relationship deepens.
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Turkmenistan’s migration policies: Reshaping economy and society

  • The Argument
  • Gulshat Chmaisse
  • June 1, 2026
The feminization of migration in Turkmenistan is not a separate phenomenon running alongside remittance dependence and exit controls. It is what those two forces, in tension with each other, have produced.
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Two languages, two standards: AI and linguistic inequality in Kazakhstan’s public services

  • The Argument
  • Zhannat Bubekbayeva
  • April 30, 2026
A systematic test of Kazakhstan's eGov Mobile AI assistant finds that Kazakh-speaking citizens consistently receive less complete and less accurate information than Russian speakers, raising questions about language parity in the country's digital public services.
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