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Luca Anceschi

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Professor in Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow

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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Job! Our department just advertised a 4-year Lectureship in Eurasian Studies at Glasgow University. This is a rare opportunity to join one of Europe's top Area Studies departments, building up our expertise on Central Asia or the Caucasus. More details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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Lecturer in Eurasian Studies
Job Purpose The School of Social and Political Sciences is seeking to appoint a fixed-term lecturer in Eurasian Studies with specific expertise in one or more countries of the post-socialist Eurasi...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
V much looking forward to contributing to this intriguing workshop later on this week. www.unior.it/en/node/2754
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“Beyond Moscow? Theories and Research Methodologies" - international workshop
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Interesting job opening at CERI Sciences-Po. Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science: Foreign and/or Security Policy of Russia. Good to see language knowledge mentioned as a desirable skill for potential applicants. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI263/a...
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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science: Foreign And/or Security Policy Of Russia at Sciences Po
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science: Foreign And/or Security Policy Of Russia is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and ...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Looks like @europe-asia.bsky.social has landed on @bsky.app. Follow our account to stay updated about online articles, the publication of new issues, and much more!
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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
On 5 March, we will host an interdisciplinary workshop 'Migration, Mobilities, and Borders in Eurasia' at Manchester. We invite paper proposals on any aspect of migration & borders in Eurasia in historical or contemporary perspective. Deadline 31 January & CfP here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ETY6...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Call for Proposals: Graduate Student Conference on #СentralAsia at @harvard.edu's Davis Center. CfP to close on 31.01, with conference held 18-20.04. Of interest to all students pursuing doctoral projects with a focus on Central Asia. More details: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/insights/cal...
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Call for Proposals: Graduate Student Conference on Сentral Asia
Are you a graduate student writing about Central Asia? Submit your application for the Davis Center Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia by Jan. 31, 2025!
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Felix Wiebrecht @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Get your papers in order for the next @apsgworkshop.bsky.social Authoritarian Politics Conference in June 2025! This time even bigger and better!
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Perfect scapegoat: a pro-Ukraine, Central Asian migrant.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Was on Radio 3 Mondo earlier on to discuss the arrest of an Uzbek citizen charged w/ the assassination of General Kirillov. I talked about Uzbekistan's role in Eurasia's polarised geopolitics & the precariousness of Uzbek migrant communities as the war continues: www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2024/1...
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Radio3 Mondo | S2024 | Bomba a Mosca, l'intelligence ucraina e il ruolo dell'Uzbekistan | La situazione sul campo di batta | Rai Radio 3 | RaiPlay Sound
Bomba a Mosca, l'intelligence ucraina e il ruolo dell'Uzbekistan | La situazione sul campo di batta - Radio3 Mondo - Il tenente generale russo Igor Kirillov, capo dell'unità di Difesa radiologica, chi...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
As part of the UKRI-funded Network + Shifting Global Polarities: Russia, China, Eurasia in Transition, which includes the University of Glasgow alongside colleagues in Birmingham, Oxford, Manchester, I'm pleased to announce an initial round of funded opportunities made available by the network. 1/
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
V long, and typically detailed, @vlastkz.bsky.social feature on social policy in post-Qantar Kazakhstan. Nice to see my views included here alongside those of distinguished colleagues. A must-read to make sense of what’s going on in Kazakhstan. vlast.kz/obsshestvo/6...
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Два года ожидания социальной справедливости Токаева - Аналитический интернет-журнал Власть
25 ноября 2022 года Касым-Жомарт Токаев был переизбран президентом Казахстана. Тогда он пообещал миллионам казахстанцам справедливое распределение доходов и борьбу с олигополистическим капитализмом. ...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Call for applications for the 2025 Aleksanteri Visiting Fellowship is open until 23.12. The institute is an ideal place to work + a key centre for the study of Eastern Europe & Eurasia. And Helsinki is one of Europe's coolest cities. Consider apply if you can: www.helsinki.fi/en/aleksante...
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Call for proposals | Aleksanteri Institute | University of Helsinki
The Aleksanteri Institute welcomes applications for its visiting fellowships for April – December 2025. The Aleksanteri Institute is the Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European stud...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:
Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Some shocking nonsense from France here. No one gets immunity from an ICC arrest warrant because they're in office - not Netanyahu, not Putin, no one. See Article 27 of the Rome Statute: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
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Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My book is out! I’m grateful for the many people in Jordan, Tunisia, Stanford, and elsewhere who helped it reach this point. If you’re interested in why some autocrats stay popular or why ruling monarchs are so durable in today’s world, this book is for you! www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
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The King Can Do No Wrong
Cambridge Core - Middle East Government,Politics and Policy - The King Can Do No Wrong
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Mihra Rittmann @mihrarittmann.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It is horrendous. Just FYI - this report says Achilova has since been released from forced hospitalization. timesca.com/turkmen-huma...
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Turkmen Human Rights Activist Soltan Achilova Released After Forced Hospitalization - The Times Of Central Asia
The journalist's release was reportedly facilitated by diplomatic interventions from several countries and pressure from international human rights
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Turkmenistan. Freedom of movement of citizens latest frontier in regime's ever expanding repressive strategy. Due to travel abroad to see her work recognised, journalist Soltan Achilova is forcibly hospitalised so that she can't leave the country. Simply horrendous. cpj.org/2024/11/turk...
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Turkmen journalist Soltan Achilova forcibly hospitalized, prevented from traveling abroad - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, November 25, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkmen authorities to end the ongoing oppression of veteran journalist Soltan Achilova, who was forcibly hospitalized and aga...
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CORUSCANT @coruscant-eu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Reminder: it's tomorrow! Helen Petrovsky will present her paper "Understanding Russian Space: An Essay in Structural Analysis". She will be discussed by Daria Petushkova. 27 November, 17-19:00 CET, Condorcet campus (Paris) and online. coruscant.therussiaprogram.org/tpost/77zdee...
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Seminar: Helen Petrovsky, "Understanding Russian Space: An Essay in Structural Analysis", 27 November, 17:00-19:00 (CET)
Wednesday 27 November, 17:00-19:00 (CET), room 2.001, Recherche Nord, Campus Condorcet (hybrid)
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Paul D. Williams @pdwilliamsgwu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
⭐Job Alert ⭐ GW's Elliott School & Political Science Dept are hiring a full-time, tenured Assoc/Full Prof. in security studies beginning Fall 2025. Seeking a strong track record of research, teaching & policy engagement in the field of security studies, broadly defined. www.gwu.jobs/postings/116...
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Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Security studies: The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and Department of Political Science invite applications for a full-time, tenured faculty position in securi...
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🚨 Few Days Left! 🚨 We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral fellow for our @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Fletcher project, “Securitization without Security: How Migration is Shaping the Global Order”, funded by Carnegie. #migcitsky 📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 📍 Location: Medford, MA apply.interfolio.com/157756
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Welcoming to this site the one and only @pannierb.bsky.social, who knows Central Asia like no one else and whose work has taught me so much through the years. A must-follow account if there is one. Hello Bruce!
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Dr Frank Maracchione - 马峰澜 @frankmaracchione.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I was interviewed by @radiofreeasia.bsky.social on the new report "Beyond the Silk Road: Navigating the Complexities of Central Asia's Public Opinion on China" for Central Asia Barometer written with J.Neafie, R.Gabdulhakov, I.Supyaldiyarov and K.Sheraliev. www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewer...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Another case wherein an European government is complicit in wave of repression going on in Central Asia. Deported from Germany where his asylum application was denied, opposition activist Dilmurod Ergashev is now in a jail in Tajikistan. Read @hrw.org's account: www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
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Tajikistan: Tajik Activist Deported from Germany Jailed
Dilmurod Ergashev, a Tajik opposition activist deported from Germany on November 6, 2024 after being refused asylum, is reported to have been provisionally detained for two months by a city court in D...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hello to all my new followers! I study personalism + personalist forms of authoritarian rule w/ particular reference to Central Asia. I'm currently writing a book that studies how pandemic politics became an instrument of authoritarian consolidation for regimes in Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Nice to be in Genova today to present some of my work on Russia-Central Asia relations at the DISPI conference presenting the findings of our joint project on Central Asia geopolitics led by Prof Mara Morini.
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Andrea Pirro @andreapirro.it · 19/11/2024
‼️ I am looking for a ECR/postdoc working at the intersection of protest event and social network analysis. This is a 2-year position part of the Horizon EU ProTest project. The successful candidate will work with me (mostly) on the Italian case. Deadline: 11 December. bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse...
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Assegni di ricerca
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My first contribution to ISPI's Osservatorio Russia Caucaso + Asia Centrale is out. Here, I reflect on implications of the referendum on nuclear energy recently held in #Kazakhstan, considering its peculiar role in current dynamics of authoritarian policy making: www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...
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Kazakhstan in the Middle: The Hidden Politics of the NPP Referendum  | ISPI
The NPP referendum crystallised the difficult juncture that Kazakhstan needs to navigate when rethinking the role of nuclear power
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Latest issue of Central Asian Affairs features an intriguing round table on @togzhankassenova.bsky.social's Atomic Steppe. Please to have contributed to this discussion on one of the most influential books on Central Asia published across the last decade. More here: brill.com/view/journal...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Powerful, wee exhibition of exiled Belarusian artists at Palazzo D’Accursio, Bologna’s stunning town hall.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Post a banger that is not in English youtu.be/73Ns52Cb7_A?...
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LIBERATO - NOVE MAGGIO
YouTube video by LIBERATO
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Stazione di Bologna. Time has stopped so that we don’t stop remembering.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The latest issue of Europe-Asia Studies has just been published. This month, we present our readers with 7 full-length articles on #Russia #EasternEurope #Eurasia + loads of book reviews. Check our homepage for more info: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ceas20/c...
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Europe-Asia Studies
Volume 76, Issue 9 of Europe-Asia Studies
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Very excited to be travelling to Forlì tomorrow to present some of my work on personal rule in Central Asia to staff + students in the MIREES - East European and Eurasian Studies, at the University of Bologna. Details on this semester's Seminar Series: corsi.unibo.it/2cycle/miree...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
TKM migrants living abroad entangled in latest wave of repression perpetrated by Berdimuhamedov regime. As Turkmenistan announces refusal to renew passports of its citizens living abroad to trigger mass wave of returns. @hrw.org's latest report looks into this: hrw.org/news/2024/11...
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Severe Hardship for Turkmens Arbitrarily Denied Passport Renewal Abroad
Turkmen authorities’ refusal to renew passports of its citizens abroad interferes with their right to freedom of movement and imposes serious hardships, the Turkmenistan Helsinki Foundation for Human ...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I am going to post on Bluesky more often from now on. For those of you who do not know me, I am an Area Studies scholar whose research focuses on Eurasia. I have a forthcoming book on the interaction b/w pandemic politics & authoritarian consolidation in Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Dictatorsky, Polisky Rise of personalism transformed Central Asia presidencies into something v similar to Gulf emirates. In Uzbekistan, for instance, criticism of president became off-limits as media landscape supposedly liberalised, v much a Kuwait-like situation. www.rferl.org/a/uzbeistan-...
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Off-Limits: Uzbeks Jailed, Sent To Psychiatric Wards For Online Criticism Of President Mirziyoev
At least three people are currently serving prison terms in Uzbekistan for criticizing the country’s president, and one man has recently had his forcible “treatment” extended at a psychiatric wa...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Dictatorsky Coming out in 2024: Personalism & Personalist Regimes looks into origins, development, characteristics + demise of personalist regimes. More details, including ToC + contributors’ list here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Dictatorsky Personalisation of politics in #Uzbekistan entails transformation of president into untouchable figure. Similar dynamics already at play in Gulf states, where public mentions of emirs or sheikhs are limited to glorification of leadership. eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-t...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Dictatorsky Turkmenistan. impact of kleptocracy on food security remains ongoing, as food deliveries are allocated to specific regions to fulfil gov’t authoritarian agenda. Important to note shortages are consequences of budget mismanagement to begin with. www.rferl.org/a/turkmenist...
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Back To Reality: Food Shortages, Price Hikes Return To Turkmen Resorts As Holiday Season Ends
Food prices have gone up again and subsidized staples have all but disappeared from state stores in Turkmenistan's Balkan region on the Caspian Sea since the summer holiday season ended.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Dictatorsky Consolidation of Tajikistan’s kleptocracy continues on as new evidence suggest that state budget supported President Rahman’s daughter in building healthcare empire. www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan...
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How The Tajik President's Daughter Built A Pharma Empire (With A Little Help From Dad)
Parvina Rahmonova, the fifth daughter of authoritarian Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, has a virtually nonexistent public footprint. But thanks in part to millions in government contracts, a pharmaceu...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Dictatorsky In 2022, Turkmenistan completed a dynastic succession from Berdimuhamedov sr to his son Serdar, who took up the presidency after a typically fraudulent election. This piece shows pitfalls of dynastic succession, as familial cleavages erode elite cohesion. eurasianet.org/turkmenistan...
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Turkmenistan: Father and son
Turkmenistan has not one leader, but two: a father-son tandem. This makes it difficult to know who is truly running the show. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Dictatorsky Kazakhstan publishes list of media organisations that apparently receive foreign funding. Gov't states list is meant to enhance transparency; regional use of such instruments points to repression. Trajectory of Toqayev regime suggests latter more likely. cpj.org/2023/09/kaza...
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Kazakhstan publishes ‘foreign agent’ register with names of journalists and media outlets - Comm...
New York, September 21, 2023—The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern over Kazakhstan’s publishing of the names of journalists, media outlets, press freedom organizations, and inform...
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Dictatorsky Viktor Hramov, éminence grise of the Turkme regime, retires. As the main architect of Turkmenistan's often v eccentric propaganda, he shaped local political behaviour like no other official since independence. His system, unfortunately, survives him. en.turkmen.news/spotlight/vi...
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Viktor Hramov, Éminence Grise of Turkmen Politics, Retires - turkmen.news
Viktor Hramov, Turkmenistan president's long-standing assistant, has retired after suffering a stroke. He left his post in August.
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Hello everyone @ Dictatorsky! I study personalism + personalist forms of authoritarian rule w/ particular reference to Central Asia. I'm currently writing a book that studies how pandemic politics became an instrument of authoritarian consolidation for regimes in Kazakhstan Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan
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