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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Central Asia</title>
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		<title>Linked Conflicts from the Caucasus to Central Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/16/linked-conflicts-from-the-caucasus-to-central-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Foreign Policy, Paul Quinn-Judge outlines a scenario in which &#8220;the fighters of the Caucasus Emirate link up with their jihadi allies in Central Asia, turning much of the southern rim of the former Soviet Union into a zone of low-intensity warfare.&#8221;
He writes that &#8220;The absolute worst-case scenario &#8212; a gradual linking-up of insurgents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for the post-American age</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/05/tips-for-the-post-american-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/05/tips-for-the-post-american-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New World Order, offers some tips for a new US president in the October issue of Wired, in an article by Daniel Pink.

The United States can avoid decline by &#8220;tightening trade and energy ties to the rest of the hemisphere, pursuing economic innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming instability in Uzbekistan</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/31/coming-instability-in-uzbekistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/31/coming-instability-in-uzbekistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a new report on the Central Asian country, the International Crisis Group offers these forecasts for Uzbekistan:

&#8220;While 69-year-old President Islom Karimov shows no signs of relinquishing power, despite the end of his legal term of office more than half a year ago, his eventual departure may lead to a violent power struggle.&#8221;
&#8220;Little can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmenistan: the lid comes off?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/24/turkmenistan-the-lid-comes-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/24/turkmenistan-the-lid-comes-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The death of brutal (and comically megalomaniacal) dictator Saparmurat Niyazov makes the future of the tightly controlled Central Asian nation suddenly uncertain.
Says a Russian expert in the Christian Science Monitor, &#8220;We might see a military coup, or an extended period of clashes among the elite.&#8221;
Another Russian expert adds, &#8220;Basically, there is no predictable script for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A warning on Uzbekistan</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/13/a-warning-on-uzbekistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/13/a-warning-on-uzbekistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2006 22:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Financial Times, the International Crisis Group warns:
Diplomatic pressure may, however, be too late to prevent upheaval. As with other brutal yet brittle regimes facing an increasingly hostile population with less and less to lose, its end is as inevitable as it will be turbulent. But the international community can try to moderate any [...]]]></description>
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