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A smarter war on drugs begins with selective punishment.

Washington has more demands—and Tehran has more leverage.

Why Beijing has failed to exploit Trump’s missteps,

The prospects for Tajik-Russian cooperation in science and education will largely depend on both parties’ ability to transition to a comprehensive, programmatic, and targeted model of interaction—one focused on creating a shared scientific and technological space, developing an innovative economy, and training a highly qualified new generation of specialists, writes Guzel Majtdinova.

For Central Asia, the 2025–2026 Middle East crisis has not only become a source of external challenges, but has also turned into a test of the region’s capacity to articulate its own framework for action—from diplomacy to infrastructural adaptation. For a landlocked region surrounded by major centres of power, such an approach acquires tangible, practical […]

High approval ratings abroad are a valuable foreign policy asset, but should not be an end in themselves. Moreover, as the contrasting examples of Central Asia and the Balkans demonstrate, such ratings arise not from the projection of soft power, but through effective economic integration in one case and a strong historical memory in the […]