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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Kazakhstan</title>
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   <title type="html">C. Asia&apos;s Great Game</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2007/03/05/UPI.html</id>
   <published>Mar 5, 2007</published>
   <updated>Mar 5, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">Published commentary by RAND staff: C. Asia&apos;s Great Game, in United Press International.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Central Asia&apos;s Other &apos;Turkmenbashis&apos;</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/commentary/2007/01/15/PS.html</id>
   <published>Jan 15, 2007</published>
   <updated>Jan 15, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">Published commentary by RAND staff: Central Asia&apos;s Other &apos;Turkmenbashis&apos;, in Project Syndicate--an association that distributes commentaries to 291 newspapers in 115 countries.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Economic Development in Central Asia is a Long-Term Security Concern</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB188.html</id>
   <published>Jul 27, 2006</published>
   <updated>Jul 27, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief assesses the economic dimensions of security in post-Soviet Central Asia and considers their implications for the role of the United States.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Asian Countries Are Divided About U.S. Security Intentions in Central Asia</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB196.html</id>
   <published>Jun 6, 2006</published>
   <updated>Jun 6, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief highlights the nature of Asian states&apos; interests and influence in Central Asia, as well as their interpretations of U.S. intentions in the region, as a starting point for shaping future U.S. policy in Central Asia.</summary>
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   <title type="html">U.S. Military Has Important but Limited Long-Term Role in Central Asia</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB173.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2004</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2004</updated>
   <summary type="html">This research brief analyzes the implications of economic, political, and social trends in Central Asia and examines the U.S. military role in the area.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Ukraine and the Caspian: An Opportunity for the United States</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP198.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1999</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1999</updated>
   <summary type="html">The author examines the various options for Caspian oil export and argues that the United States should support a pipeline route through Ukraine to Europe.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Value of Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR978.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1998</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">Family planning programs have been highly successful over the past 30 years in providing women in development countries with desired access to contraceptive services and helping to reduce fertility rates. </summary>
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   <title type="html">Family Planning in Developing Countries: An Unfinished Success Story</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP176.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1997</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1997</updated>
   <summary type="html">If global fertility has declined so sharply, should the United States and other donor countries continue to invest in overseas population assistance programs, particularly family planning? </summary>
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   <title type="html">The Unwilling State: Exploring Kazakhstan&apos;s Resistance to Economic Autonomy in the Post-Soviet Period</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD111.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1994</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1994</updated>
   <summary type="html">This dissertation explores the alternatives available to Kazakhstan as it chooses between participation in an economically integrated arrangement with other former republics and charting a more autonomous path.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Impressions and conversations in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, September 1988</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7646.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1989</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1989</updated>
   <summary type="html">This paper describes the author&apos;s experiences as a Study Leader for a Smithsonian group that traveled across Soviet Central Asia in September 1988. Speaking both Russian and Turkish, the author had many revealing conversations with people of both the...</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Effect of Weather on Soviet Wheat Production</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2614.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1979</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1979</updated>
   <summary type="html">To estimate the effect of climate on Soviet wheat production, this study devises formulas that calculate variability of wheat production in three major areas: Southwest Ukraine, South Ukraine, and Kazakhstan-West Siberia.</summary>
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   <title type="html">[The Possible Influence of Additional Evaporation from Reservoirs and Irrigated Tracts on Precipitation] by A. S. Grigoryeva.</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3826.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1967</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1967</updated>
   <summary type="html">A brief summary of the findings of Soviet studies on the influence of additional evaporation from reservoirs and irrigated tracts, projected through 1980, on the precipitation over two large territories in which the principal irrigation networks and ...</summary>
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