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Can Kazakhstan Shed Its Kleptocratic Past?

Alexander Cooley
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The Winter of the Patriarch

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The East Turkestan Independence Movement, 1930s to 1940s

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Two Cheers for Expensive Oil

Leonardo Maugeri
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No Joke

Kenneth Neil Cukier
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Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise

Robert Legvold
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Central Asian Security: The New International Context; Jihadi Groups, Nuclear Pakistan, and the New Great Game

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OPEC as Omen

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