Author Archive: Zhulduz Baizakova and Niels Terpstra
Zhulduz Baizakova is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security and Cooperation Issues and Lecturer of the International Relations Faculty at Al Farabi Kazakh National University.
Niels Terpstra is a PhD Researcher in Conflict Studies at the History of International Relations section at Utrecht University.
Central Asian Security Challenges: Religious Extremism and Uncertainty in the Afghan Borderlands
In the study of International Relations we tend to understand the problems in Afghanistan as a result of the world’s great powers, quite similar to the dynamics of the ‘Great Game’ in the 19th Century. What tends to remain overlooked in this perspective is how instability in Afghanistan itself has influenced its current neighbors to…
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