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2025: AI Transforms Emerging Markets Worldwide
In 2025, artificial intelligence underwent a transformative shift from scientific advancement to practical economic force multiplier. As technological capabilities developed, AI use rose exponentially. Much of the discourse around the new technology focuses on the major players and their political struggles. China and the U.S. see AI in geopolitical terms, as a tool to transform
Investment Booms In Eurasia After Abraham Accords Expand
When Kazakhstan’s president Kassym Jomart Tokayev announced, during a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, that Kazakhstan would join the Abraham Accords, markets rejoiced, and the decision was lauded in boardrooms and policy chanceries from Washington to Beijing and from New York to Shanghai. Kazakhstan’s joining transformed the process initiated by President Donald J.
Central Asia in the Global Nuclear Renaissance
Will Kazakhstan’s Uranium Fuel An AI Boom In Central Asia?
Governments are seeking to leverage AI investment to accelerate societal and economic development and bootstrap to the next level of economic development. While some observers express concerns that the growth of AI could widen the gap between the developed world and emerging markets, it also provides an opportunity for energy-rich developing countries to technologically leapfrog. Few
Dr. Cohen speaks at “Saltanat’s Law: Women’s Rights in Central Asia”
Dr. Ariel Cohen discusses the legal dimension of Saltanat’s Law, a measure recently passed in Kazakhstan following the high-profile domestic abuse case of a former minister, at an event hosted by The Jamestown Foundation and the International Tax and Investment Center. Watch the full panel here | Watch Dr. Cohen’s insights here
30 Years of Bilateral Ties: The Special U.S.-Kazakhstan Relationship
September 2021 | Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., James Grant, and Douglas Townsend | Download The fifth report from ITIC’s Energy, Growth, and Security (EGS) program illustrates, analyzes, and projects the condition of U.S.-Kazakhstan relationships, including the trajectory set forth by First President Nursultan Nazarbayev upon Kazakhstan’s independence 30 years ago.
Kazakhstan Referendum Will Reshape Nuclear Energy In Central Asia
Kazakhstan has employed the time-honored practice of obtaining societal feedback by holding a referendum on October 6th, 2024, to determine whether it should begin constructing a nuclear power plant. With 64% of registered voters in the country submitting ballots, the referendum passed. 71.12% of voters voted in favor of building the plant, according to the