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Shirin Akiner, PhD, is a Fellow of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, University of Cambridge, UK.
Vinod Anand is a Brig. (retd) and Senior Fellow with the United Service Institute of India-Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation.
Luca Anceschi is Lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and Research Associate at the La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue.
David A. Anderson, PhD, is a Professor of Strategic Studies, and Odom Chair of Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Operations, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University, USA.
Svetlana Ancker is a graduate of the Health, Population and Society postgraduate program at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK.
Anna Aseeva is a graduate of Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland.
Farhad Atai is Associate Professor of Regional Studies at the School of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran.
Luba Azarch is a Research Fellow at the Russia/Eurasia Program of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, Germany.
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Pavel K. Baev is a senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
Alyson J.K. Bailes is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. From July 2002-August 2007 she was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Mahmoud Balooch is Research Scholar at the Defence and Strategic Studies Department, Pune University, India.
Nick Bartlett is a consultant at the Open Society Institute, U.S.
Robert E. Bedeski is Visiting Aung San Suu Kyi Endowed Chair in Asian Democracy, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
Saltanat Berdikeeva is Senior Research Analyst at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Washington D.C., United States and contributing security analyst for Exclusive Analyst, London, UK.
Timur Berkeliev is a scholar and environmentalist from Turkmenistan.
Christofer Berglund is a PhD. Candidate at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Ilan Berman is Vice President for Policy at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC, U.S.
Stephen Blank is Research Professor of National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, USA.
James Bosbotinis is a UK-based analyst specializing in military and strategic developments, in particular with regard to Russia and China. He is an Associate Member of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, King’s College London, UK.
Alan Lee Boyer is a Military Professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, in the U.S.
Martin Brownbridge is advisor to the Governor, Bank of Uganda.
Scott Brunson is a career U.S. Navy officer. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and has a Master's degree in Internationals Relations from Webster University, USA.
Daniel Burghart, PhD, is a Professor of National Security and Eurasian Studies at National Defense Intelligence College, USA.
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Šárka Cabadová Waisová is the Head of Department of Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Kent Calder is Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University - School of Advanced International Studies, U.S.
Sudharshan Canagarajah is Lead Economist, The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA. All the views expressed here are done in the authors’ personal capacity.
Samuel Chan is at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.
Didier Chaudet is Lecturer on Security Affairs in Greater Central Asia at the Institute of Political Studies ("Sciences Po") in Paris, France.
Ariel Cohen is Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security at the Sarah and Douglas Allison Center of the Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation in the United States.
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Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy is a geographer and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) research fellow in Paris, France.
Chien-peng Chung is Assistant Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics and Sociology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Gaye Christoffersen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Soka University of America, U.S.
Michael Clarke is Research Fellow at Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia.
Svante E. Cornell is Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program. He is also Senior Advisor for the China and Eurasia Forum.
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Bruno de Cordier is with the Conflict Research Group of Ghent University, Belgium.
Nicolás de Pedro is a researcher and consultant based in Madrid, Spain.
Mahesh Ranjan Debata is an Assistant Professor at the Central Asian Studies Programme, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Arthur S. Ding is Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations (IIR) at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, where he previously served as Director of China Politics Division.
Vyacheslav Dodonov, PhD, is a Senior Associate at the Kazakhstan Institute for
Strategic Studies in Kazakhstan.
Asel Doolotkeldieva is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science, Paris, France (Sciences-Po Paris).
Malia K. Du Mont is an Asian analyst at CNA Corporation, and former Associate Editor and Co-Founder of the China and Eurasia Forum.
Carol Dumaine is Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, U.S. Department of Energy, USA.
Ramakant Dwivedi is Associate Fellow at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India.
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Kyrre Elvenes Brækhus is a Mandarin Language Scholar at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Evan A. Feigenbaum is U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
Vladimir Fenopetov is the former Chief of Europe and West/Central Asia Section of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria, where he worked from 1982 to 2006.
Peter K. Forster teaches political science at Penn State University in the U.S. and helps coordinate the University's homeland security initiatives.
Robert O. Freedman is the Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science at Baltimore Hebrew University and is a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, United States.
Alexander Frost is a Masters graduate of the Department of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Jen-kun Fu is Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Central Asian Studies, Ching Yun University, Taiwan.
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Isabel Geiger is career U.S. Army officer with the rank of Major. She is a recent graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, where she earned a masters degree in International Relations.
Brandon J. Gentry is a research analyst at the Strategic Assessment Center of Hicks and Associates, Inc., in McLean, Virginia, United States.
L. Sergio Germani is Director, Eurasia Strategy: Center for Strategic Research on Eurasia, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy.
Gene Germanovich is a defense consultant at a Washington, D.C.-based firm, United States.
Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Richard Giragosian is a Washington-based analyst specializing in international relations and military security in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
Rohan Gunaratna is the Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Singapore.
Guo Xuetang is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of International Politics at Tongji University, China.
Elias Götz is a Ph.D. Candidate at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Kathleen J. Hancock, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, USA.
Selbi Hanova is a Junior Professional Officer at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Gavin Hayman is Campaigns Director, Global Witness, London, UK.
Faredun Hodizoda is National Coordinator for the Project ‘Dialogue on Resource Management in Tajikistan’ run by International Alert, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Sophie Hohmann is an Associated Scholar with the at the Centre d’Etudes des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen (CERCEC), (CNRS/EHESS, Paris), France.
Slavomír Horák is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Hu Jian is Deputy Director of the Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
Chin-Hao Huang is a Research Assistant with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC.
Eugene Huskey is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida.
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Sadykzhan Ibraimov is an Independent Researcher based in Kazakhstan.
Alisher Ilkhamov is Research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.
Masoud Imani-Kalesar is Visiting Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France.
Fabio Indeo holds a PhD in Geopolitics. He is Research Fellow at the University of Camerino, Italy.
Irina Isakova is Associate Fellow at RUSI, London, UK.
Fariz Ismailzade is Director of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku. He is also a regular contributor on the South Caucasus for the Eurasia Daily Monitor and Central Asia – Caucasus Analyst.
Vladimir I. Ivanov is Senior Economist and Director of ERINA's Research Division in Japan.
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Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan is Director of Blue Banner, a Non-Governmental Organization in Mongolia.
Kakha Jibladze is a freelance reporter and translator based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Liu Jinqian is a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science’s Institute of Euro-Asian Studies, China.
Thomas H. Johnson is a Research Professor of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, United States.
Michael Jonsson is a Ph.D. Candidate at Uppsala University and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paul Quinn-Judge is Central Asia Project Director and Russia Adviser at the International Crisis Group, and is based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Togzhan Kassenova, a Kazakh, is Senior Research Associate, Center for International Trade and Security, Washington D.C., USA.
Mushtaq A. Kaw is Professor at the Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Alisher Khamidov is PhD Candidate at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, United States.
Simbal Khan is Policy Analyst from the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ablat Khodzhaev is Senior Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan
Maria Kielmas is a London based journalist and energy consultant, U.K.
Ingolf Kiesow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden. .
Heidi Kjærnet is a Research Fellow at the Energy Programme at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).
Alexander Knyazev is Research fellow at the Institute for CIS countries and Director of the Alexander Knyazev Public Foundation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Elaheh Koolaee is Professor of Regional Studies Department and Director of Central Eurasia Program of University of Tehran, Iran.
Yevgeniya Korniyenko is an Economic Analyst at the EBRD.
Libor Krkoska is a Senior Economist at the EBRD.
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Christian Nils Larson is an independent consultant on AML/CFT issues in the former Soviet Union.
Marlene Laruelle is a Senior Research Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, United States/Sweden.
Alisher Latypov is a Research Student at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK.
Rensselaer Lee is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, U.S. and President of Global Advisory Services in McLean, VA, in the United States.
Christopher Len is Managing Editor of the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly.
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Li Lifan is Associate Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Deputy Secretary-General of the Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, China.
Yuhui Li is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA.
Xuanli Liao is Lecturer in International Relations and Energy Security at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland.
Bo Libert is Regional Adviser on Environment, UNECE, Geneva, Switzerland.
Li Lifan is Deputy Director of the Center for SCO Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China.
Hsiao-ting Lin is W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, C, U.S..
Johannes F. Linn serves as CAREC Special Adviser. He is Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution. He was previously Vice President for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank.
Steven E. Lobell, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.
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Heather Maki is a career U.S. Army officer currently serving in Afghanistan. She is a recent graduate of both the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and Webster University.
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch is Director of the International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD) at the Open Society Institute, U.S.
Erica Marat is Research Fellow at the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, United States/ Sweden.
Thrassy N. Marketos works at the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Athens, Greece).
Talat Masood (Lt. General) served in the Pakistani Army for 39 years, retiring in 1990 as Secretary for Defence Production in the Ministry of Defence.
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Artyom Matusov is a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, United States.
Tom Mayne is Energy Expert, Global Witness, London, UK.
Roger N. McDermott is Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC & Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Azganush A. Migranyan is Professor and Senior Expert at the Kyrgyz branch of the Institute of CIS, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.
Michael Mihalka is Professor of Full Spectrum Operations (Strategic/Operational), US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
Saule Mukhametrakhimova is the Central Asian Project Manager & Editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), a London-based media development NGO.
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Nima Nasrollahi Shahri holds a Masters in International Commercial Law from Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran. He is completing another law degree on Petroleum Law and Policy (LLM) at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Tarique Niazi teaches Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, U.S..
Alexander I. Nikitin is Professor and Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia. He is also President of the Russian Political Science Association, as well as a member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.
Magnus Norell is a Research Analyst at the Swedish Defense Research Agency.
Nicklas Norling is former Managing Editor of the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly and Research Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program.
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Martha Brill Olcott is Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United States.
Olga Oliker is Senior International Policy Analyst at RAND Corporation, U.S..
Saodat Olimova is Vice-director of Sharq Analytical Center, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Matthew Oresman is the former Director and Founder of the China and Eurasia Forum.
Erkin Orolbaev is a consultant based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Indra Øverland is Director of the Energy Program at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway.
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Pan Guang is the Director of the Shanghai Center for International Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences where he is also a Professor. He is also Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai, and Senior Advisor at the China and Eurasia Forum.
Jagannath P. Panda is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India.
Cleo Paskal is Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, Chatham House, London, UK.
Renat Perelet is based at the Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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Kenneth George Pereire is a Research Analyst International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Singapore.
Sebastien Peyrouse is Managing Editor of the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly.
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Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics at University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Alan Rousso is the Lead Counsellor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
David W. Rycroft is based at the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, UK.
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Steven Sabol is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
Gulshan Sachdeva is Associate Professor T School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India.
Dosym Satpayev is a well known political commentator and analyst in Kazakhstan and director of Risk Assessment Group.
Zhanibek Saurbek is a trained lawyer with a Candidate of Legal Sciences degree in Kazakhstan.
Igor Savin, PhD, works at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia, and at the NGO, Dialogue, in South Kazakhstan.
Michael Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years before resigning in 2004. He served as the Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999.
Louise Shelley is a Professor in the School of International Service and the Founder and Director of the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at American University, U.S.
Simon Shen is Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education and Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA.
Yitzhak Shichor is Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel and Senior Research Fellow at the Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky is a Barrister from Middle Temple, London, UK.
Tobias Siegfried is Associate research scientist at The Earth Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, USA.
Gurpreet Singh Khurana is a Missile Warfare specialist of the Indian Navy and presently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India.
Peter Sinnott, PhD is an independent scholar.
Jan Šír is with the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Julianne Smith is Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at CSIS’s International Security Program
Song Gang is an M.A. graduate from Brandeis University and a Research Intern with the Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Martin C. Spechler is Professor of Economics at Indiana University in the United States.
Yuri Steklov is a consultant based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Daniel Stevens is based at the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK.
Robert Sutter is Professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, U.S.
Niklas Swanström is Program Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program. He is also Editor-in-Chief for the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly.
Konstantin Syroezhkin is Senior Research Fellow at Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KISI), Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Tian Guang is a Professor of Business Administration at Shantou University, China.
Farkhod Tolipov is Associate Professor at National University of Uzbekistan and Senior Advisor of the China and Eurasia Forum.
Stina Torjesen is a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Jacob Townsend is an independent analyst affiliated to the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program as a researcher.
Dmitri Trenin is Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia. He also serves as a Senior Advisor for the China-Eurasia Forum.
Nabijan Tursun is a U.S.-based specialist in Central Asian and Uyghur Studies currently working for the Uyghur Service , Radio Free Asia in Washington, DC, USA.
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Laurent Vinatier, PhD, Institute of Political Studies, Paris, France, is Research Fellow at Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Blaine N. Wales is a career U.S. Army officer. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and has a Master's degree in International Relations from Webster University, USA.
Kai Wegerich is based at the Irrigation and Water Engineering Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Richard Weitz is a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Future Security Strategies in the United States.
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Yang Shu is the Director of the Institute for Central Asian Studies, Lanzhou University, People’s Republic of China.
Yuasa Takeshi is Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
Galina M.Yemelianova is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, European Research Institute, The University of Birmingham, UK.
Marat Yermukanov is a reporter for the Russian-language Panorama Nedeli and a regional correspondent for the weekly magazine, Panorama, both based in Kazakhstan.
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Rizwan Zeb is a Senior Analyst at the Islamabad-based Institute of Regional Studies, Pakistan.
Zha Daojiong is Director of the Center for International Energy Security at Renmin University's School of International Studies in China.
Zhao Huasheng is Director of the Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies at Fudan University in China.
Amantur Zhaparov is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences of
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