This piece is the second of Glimpse’s “Regional Check-In Series.” To read about Latin America, click here. To read about Southeast Asia, click here. The former Soviet republics occupying the Caucasus and Central Asia have been out of the limelight this ...

Guest Contributor: James V. Mersol Uzbek President Islam Karimov and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev are arguably the two most successful dictators of the 21st century. Consider that both leaders have weathered the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ...