publications

Book

Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence Markowitz, The Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus: Mapping Security Threats and State Responses in Central Asia (forthcoming with Columbia University Press)

Articles

Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence Markowitz, “Does Drug Trafficking Impact Terrorism? Afghan Opioids and Terrorist Violence in Central Asia,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, published online February 20, 2018. doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1434039

Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence Markowitz, “Disciplined and Undisciplined Repression: Illicit Economies and State Violence in Central Asia's Autocracies”, forthcoming in Post-Soviet Affairs.

Policy Briefs

Mariya Y. Omelicheva, “U.S. Security Assistance to Central Asia: Examining Limits, Exploring Opportunities", PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #487, October 2017.

Lawrence P. Markowitz, 2017. “State Responses to the Terrorism-Trafficking Nexus in Tajikistan: Short Term Advances, Long Term Risks”.

Lawrence P. Markowitz, 2017. “State Responses to the Terrorism-Trafficking Nexus in Kyrgyzstan: Short Term Risks, Long Term Prospects”.

Mariya Y. Omelicheva, “Eurasia’s CSTO and SCO: A Failure to Address the Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #455, January 2017.

Mariya Y. Omelicheva, 2017. “Islamist Activity in Kazakhstan,” American Foreign Policy Council’s World Almanac of Islamism.

Mariya Y. Omelicheva, “A Trafficking-Terrorism Nexus in Central Asia,” 30 June 2016 The Diplomat.

Conference Papers

Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence Markowitz, “What Explains Low Levels of Non-State Violence? Illicit Economies and the State in Eurasia,” presented at the annual meeting of ASN, Columbia University, New York, May 2018

Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence Markowitz, “When the Crime-Terror Nexus Does Not Materialize: Drug Trafficking, Militants and the State in Russia”, presented at the annual security conference, Crime-Terror Nexus and Intelligence-Led Responses, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 2018

Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Clayton Webb, “Economic Crises and Socio-Political Instability: An Analysis of Security Contingences of Economic Recession in Russia”, presented at the annual meeting of ISA, San Francisco, April, 2018

Lawrence P. Markowitz, 2017. “The Crystallization of State Security Institutions In Tajiksitan and Kyrgyzstan,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities

Lawrence P. Markowitz, 2017. “How the Terrorism-Trafficking Nexus Has Shaped Security Apparatuses in Central Asia,” Central Asian Security Workshop, Central Asia Program, IERES, George Washington University. (Video of the presentation)

Mariya Y. Omelicheva, 2016. “Mapping the Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus in Central Asia,” presented at the Central Eurasian Studies Society annual meeting.

Lawrence P. Markowitz, 2016. “Assessing State Responses to Security Threats in Central Asia,” presented at the Central Eurasian Studies Society annual meeting.