This program, consisting of three separate projects (see below), launches a comprehensive assessment of political, economic, and educational developments in contemporary Azerbaijan and Central Asia.
This project explores how traditional relationships among groups who share languages, histories, religions, and economic relationships are shaping the formal and informal structures and processes that constitute the political culture in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan, respectively. The research produces insights into how the evolving political sub-structures may influence regime stability and leadership transition in these countries.
This project creates a “state of the region’s infrastructure” assessment of the five republics, documenting infrastructure investment programs, priorities, and impact on each country’s current and potential economic development. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how economic policies and infrastructure development programs pursued today in Central Asian states may produce stabilizing or destabilizing outcomes.
This project tracks and assesses the state of the public and private educational infrastructure in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. It includes an analysis of trends in secular and religious educational institutions, and addresses one of the most urgent issues facing these states and the international community: the prospects that failing public educational institutions are creating a vacuum in educational opportunities in Azerbaijan and Central Asia, and the vacuum is being filled by religious-based schools and institutions that promote Islamist extremist agendas.
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