Unrest in Kyrgyzstan: Popular Uprisings in the 21st Century

Friday, November 13 at 1 pm (CT)

Featuring:

Eugene Huskey (Stetson University)

“Comparing Kyrgyzstan’s Popular Rebellions of 2005, 2010, and 2020”

Erica Marat (National Defense University)

“Kyrgyzstan’s Cycles of Contention: From Authoritarianism to Street Protests”

Colleen Wood (Columbia University)

“Institutional Design and Political Unrest in Kyrgyzstan”

Chaired by Kristoffer Rees (Indiana University East)

Eugene Huskey is Professor Emeritus at Stetson, where he held the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at Stetson University from 1999 until his retirement from teaching in 2019. He received the PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications range across three areas: the Russian executive, Soviet and post-Soviet law, and politics of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of 60 academic articles and has written or edited five books, including Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World: A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Erica Marat is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Regional and Analytical Studies Department of the National Defense University. She has previously directed Homeland Defense Fellowship Program at CISA. Dr. Marat’s research focuses on violence, mobilization and security institutions in Eurasia, India, and Mexico. She has authored three books, including most recently The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press 2018). Her articles appeared in Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Eurasanet, and Open Democracy. Dr. Marat is currently focused on completing a book on mobilization against violence in India and Mexico. She is also engaged in a research project on China’s and Russia’s provision of public services for illiberal governances in 15 countries across five continents.

Colleen Wood is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in comparative politics at Columbia University. Broadly, her research explores the relationship between the state, information, and identity. Her dissertation considers the conditions under which Central Asian states outsource elements of their education system, and in turn how education reform shapes citizens' sense of responsibility to the government.

Kristoffer Rees is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Program Coordinator for International Studies at Indiana University East