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Eric McGlinchey

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Associate Professor

Contact Information

emcglinc@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-2960
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 313
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4

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Biography

Eric McGlinchey is an associate professor of politics and government and director of the undergraduate International Relations Policy Task Force at AV’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 University

Curriculum Vitae

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Associate Professor of Government
Director,InternationalRelations PolicyTaskForce
ScharSchoolofPolicyandGovernment
AV

GeorgeMasonUniversity,341ResearchHall
4400UniversityDrive, Fairfax,VA22030
703-993-2960
emcglinc@gmu.edu

ACADEMICEMPLOYMENT

GeorgeMason University,Fairfax,VA
Associate Professor of Government and Politics, August 2011-Present. AssistantProfessorofGovernmentandPolitics,August 2005-August2011.

IowaStateUniversity,Ames,IA
AssistantProfessorofPoliticalScience, August2003-July 2005.

StanfordUniversity,Stanford,CA
PostdoctoralFellow inCentral AsianStudies,August 2002-July2003.

EDUCATION

PrincetonUniversity,Princeton,NewJersey
Ph.D.inPolitics,January 2003.

VassarCollege, Poughkeepsie,NewYork
B.A.withHonors inPoliticalScience (PhiBetaKappa, GeneralHonors),1995.

Yaroslavl’ State University, Yaroslavl’, Russian Federation
VisitingStudent,1993-1994.

BOOK

2011.Chaos,Violence andDynasty:Politics andIslam inCentral Asia(Universityof 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.“L𲹻󾱱Succession, GreatPowerAmbitions,andtheFutureofCentralAsia, ”Central Asian Affairs3:3 (July).

2014.“FastForwardingtheBrezhnevYears: OshinFlames,”RussianHistory41(3). 2012.“Fǰ𾱲PolicyandAgingCentral 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(UniversityofPittsburghPress, 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 University 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 of²󾱲ԲٴDz’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.“Fǰ𾱲Policy 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, GeorgeWashingtonUniversityElliot 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𲹳,”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.IowaStateUniversity FacultyDevelopmentGranttosupport researchonPolitical Islam in Central Asia.

2003-2004.IowaStateUniversitySmallResearchGranttosupportVisiting ResearchAssistant from the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences.

DEPARTMENTALANDUNIVERSITYSERVICE

2021-Present.Director, ScharSchoolInternationalRelationsPolicyTaskForce 2019-Present. Schar School Curriculum Committee

2021.PhDComprehensiveExamsComparativePolitics CommitteeChair 2020. University 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 UniversityPress,Europe–AsiaStudies, Demokratizatsiya, Freedom House Freedom in the World & Nations in Transit, Governancel, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Terrorism, Oxford University 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, UniversityofPittsburgh Press, University 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,PrincetonUniversity;Summer1997,Nevsky Institute,St. Petersburg).

1996-1997.Princeton RussianStudiesFellow.

1996-2002.Princeton UniversityFellowship(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. YaleUniversity,“BetweenAnarchyandthePoliceState: Geopoliticsand International DevelopmentinCentralAsia, A Roundtable,”January25,New Haven,CT.

2015. Foreign ServiceInstitute,“CԳٰAsianAuthoritarianism,”April20,Arlington,VA.

2015. GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,KeynoteSpeech,TrackingFactorsofChange in TajikistanConference,“Using a Wide LenstoAssess theNarrowRiskofRadicalIslam inղᾱ쾱ٲ,”March10,Washington,D.C.

2015. GeorgetownUniversity,25thAnnualNavai’i-NalleAnnual Lecture,“Negotiating Crisis inCentral,” February26,Washington,D.C.

2014. Foreign ServiceInstitute,“State, Society,andReligioninCentralAsia, ”October15, Arlington, VA.

2014. TheOhioState University, KeynoteSpeechforthe2014MidwestSlavicConference “A TheftSoNice, TheyDiditTwice:FleecingLocalPopulationsandForeignInvestorsin Central,”March28,Columbus,OH.

2014. University ofPittsburgh,“Hands Off!PropertyRights and PredatoryCentralAsian States,”March22,Pittsburgh,PA.

2013. UniversityofWisconsin,“C󲹴Dz,Violence,Dynasty andCentralAsianSociety:The UntoldStory,”October3,Madison,WI.

2013. Bowdoin College, andState SovereigntyinCentral,”February28, Brunswick, ME.

2013. University ofPittsburgh,KeynoteSpeechforthe10Annual REES /GOSECA Graduate StudentConference,“GeopoliticalThreats:PerceptionandRealityinCentral,” February22,PittsburghPA.

2011. WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholars,“C󲹴Dz,Violence,Dynasty:Politics andIslaminCentralAsia, ”BookPresentation,WashingtonDC,November17.

2011. National DefenseUniversity,“PerspectivesonCentralAsian Islam,”Washington,DC, November 7.

2011. WesleyanUniversity,“Fast ForwardingtheBrezhnevYears:Oshin Flames,” Middletown,CT,October21.

2011. American UniversityofCentralAsia,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. University ofToronto,“FridaysinAndijan:LocalizedIslamandtheErosionof CentralizedAutocracy,”March13.

2008. USStateDepartment,Kazakhstan,“PDZپParty Formation inCentral,”Astana, Kazakhstan,May27.

2008. University ofLondon,School of Oriental and African Studies, “Patronage, Islam and the FadingCentralAsian State,”April24.

2008. UniversityofMichigan,“TBlurredBorders ofStateandIslaminCentral,” Ann Arbor,MI, January 9.

2007. AmericanUniversityofCentralAsia, “EvolvingIslamicIdentitiesinCentral,” Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan,November28.

2007.StateDepartmentBriefingonPolitical PartyAssistanceinEasternEurope andEurasia, Washington, D.C., October 9.

2007.CentralEuropeanUniversity,“PDZپScienceApproachestoStateandReligionin Central ,” Budapest, Hungary, August 14 & 15.

2007.GeorgeWashingtonUniversityNationalSecurityStudies Program,“TԻinCentral Asian ʴDZپ,” Washington, D.C., June 15.

2007.GeorgeWashingtonUniversityWorkshoponPost-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,UniversityofHamburg, “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.YaleUniversity, “ConstructingMilitantOpposition: AuthoritarianRule and Political IslaminCentral ,”CentralAsiaandtheCaucasusinaGlobalizedWorldLecture Series, April 6.

2004.NorthwesternUniversity,“AܳٳǰٲRuleandMilitant IslaminCentral ,” Comparative Politics Lecture Series, April 19.

2002.StanfordUniversity,“CԳٰ Asia:Democracyٱ,”StanfordUniversityCenterfor Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 19.

CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS

2020. “T Limits of ²󾱲ԲٴDz’s Staying Power in Central ,” Hollings Center for International Dialogue Conference, “Thirty Years of Central Asia’s International Relations:Taking StockandLooking Forward,”AmericanUniversityofCentralAsia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, March 4.

2019.“CԳٰAsiainDzԳٱ,”CentralEurasian StudiesSociety AnnualConference, Washington, October 10, 2019.

2019.“G𲹳PowerInfluence 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, University of Exeter, June 29.

2019.“PDZٲintheCentralAsianDzԳٱ,”16th BiennialConferenceoftheEuropean Society for Central Asian Studies, University of Exeter, June 27.

2018.“G𲹳PowerConnectionsinCentral,”STIX:Science, Technology,andInnovation Exchange,Basic ResearchOfficeof the Department ofDefense,USInstituteforPeace, December 11.

2018.“USoftPower: TheViewfromٲ,”Central EurasianStudiesSociety Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, October 25.

2018.“TErosionofU.S.SoftPowerinٲ,”Associationfor theStudyof Nationalities, New York, NY, May 5.

2018.“ĘCԳٰAsianTerrorism’ andtheLimitsofExtreme Vetting,”CentralAsianSecurity Workshop, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., March 20.

2018.“Presidential Transitions and the Implications for US Soft Power in Central ,” CentralAsianSecurityWorkshop,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,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 University, Washington, D.C. April 20.

2014.ٳٰٱ𲵾forCircumventingAuthoritarianDzԳٰDZ,”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.“C󲹴Dz,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,“T𳦳ԴDZDz,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 University 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.“Fǰ𾱲AidandICTPolicy 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,”NorthwesternUniversity,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.“W𲹰States,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 University, April.

1999.“Kٲ:ACaseofState DecentralizationinPost-SovietCentral,”Sixth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, 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

Affiliations