Once described as the ‘Balkans of central Asia’, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have managed ethnic and territorial tensions with great success.
- Professor of Political Geography, Newcastle University
- Mid-Career Fellow 2025-26, Independent Social Research Foundation
Eighty years ago, this remarkable event showed a rare glimpse of humanity on both sides of a bitter conflict.
If a peace deal isto be reached it’s important to understand why Russia wanted this war.
Nato began its life as a purely defensive alliance against the Soviet Union. But has that role changed over the years?
While the West fails to solve its border issues, countries in Asia and Africa have found a positive way forward.
Some ‘celebrity’ atheists espouse the very doctrines of violence that they accuse organised religon of.
The government is unveiling commemorative paving stones laid in the birth places of those members of the British Empire forces in World War I who received the Victoria Cross for their bravery. The government’s…
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