Memoir: Clinching the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline A former US Caspian energy envoy recalls the ups and downs of getting a key post-Soviet energy export route built. Steven Mann Jan 3, 2024
Memoir | Thirty years of Kazakhstan: A prelude to an epilogue A former American ambassador to Kazakhstan examines lessons learned since first visiting the country weeks after independence. John Ordway Mar 11, 2022
Memoir | Diplomatic tradeoffs in Central Asia A senior American official describes trying to square two Bush administration priorities: human rights and the Global War on Terror. George Krol Sep 17, 2021
Memoir | 9/11 shifted the world. In Central Asia, diplomatic frenzy ensued Behind the scenes with an American negotiator who helped forge a radical new level of U.S. engagement in Central Asia after 9/11. Richard E. Hoagland Sep 10, 2021
Memoir | Turkmenistan vignettes 1992-95 While encouraging educational exchanges and agricultural innovation, Washington's first ambassador to Turkmenistan found government suspicion overwhelming. Joseph S. Hulings III Sep 3, 2021
Memoir | 9/11: The American discovery of Tajikistan The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe became a frenetic staging post for the Afghan war in late 2001. Franklin P. Huddle, Jr. Aug 27, 2021
Memoir | In the Court of Turkmenbashi The former U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan describes close interactions with a paranoid and shortsighted dictator. Steven Mann Aug 20, 2021
Memoir | Through the diplomat’s looking glass When it set up its first Central Asia missions in the early 1990s, the State Department had no regional experts. George Krol Sep 16, 2020