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Kazakhstan's Winter of Discontent
Feb 9, 2012
By Sung In Marshall
Tit-for-Tat: The Evolution of Non-Cooperation over the Rogun Dam
Feb 1, 2012
By Stephen Weil

Resource conflicts have become important flashpoints across the globe, including in Central Asia, where Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have been embroiled in a major dispute over life's most precious resource: water. Uzbekistan contends that the proposed Rogun Dam would destroy their agricultural system; Tajikistan counters that increased hydroelectric energy production is essential to its economic growth. How can these neighbors arrive at a mutually beneficial arrangement?