Azatlyk, May 2014 -- TKM Roundtable

RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, Azatlyk, organized a roundtable on the situation in Central Asia and Afghanistan, now and after January 1, 2015. Moderator: Azatlyk director Muhammad Tahir. Guests: Alex Cooley from Columbia University, author of “Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas” and “Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia"; Artyom Ulunyan, head of the Balkan, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Center of the General History Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Joshua Kucera, long-time writer about Central Asia and security matters for EurasiaNet (blog “The Bug Pit”); and Professor Wazir Safi of Kabul University.