The new normal is reglobalisation! In @thediplomat.com, I argue that the Global South is redrawing the world economy while the West struggles with moral crisis and protectionism, focus #Uzbekistan. 🔗Read: thediplomat.com/2025/10/the-... 🎓Based on: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CentralAsia

The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast hosts @nktpnd.bsky.social and @LadyPutz.bsky.social discuss recent geopolitical developments between the United States and Russia, India and China, and more.

Member highlight! Meet MWG member Katie Putz!(@ladyputz.bsky.social) milwritersguild.substack.com/p/member-hig...

As DOGE takes aim at the Peace Corps, the sudden cancellation of the June departure of new volunteers to Kyrgyzstan “is particularly cruel and inefficient," a former volunteer told The Diplomat.

Accidentally added to a White House Signal chat and now I'm leading Seal Team Six on an egg raid in Quebec

The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast hosts @nktpnd.bsky.social and @ladyputz.bsky.social discuss the Trump tariffs and the impact on U.S. foreign policy.

RFE/RL leadership has pushed back on the decision by its parent organization, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, to cancel its grants, calling the move outright “illegal.”

Pickers and Clusters: A Complex Array of Issues Confronts #Uzbekistan’s Evolving #Cotton Industry @thediplomat.com @ladyputz.bsky.social bit.ly/43TH3Xl

Last night I finished Italo Calvino's "Six Memos for the Next Millennium," a series of lecture intended for delivery at Harvard in 1985-86 on the qualities he believed should define literature in the new millennium, then 15 years away. Calvino died before he could give the lectures.

My latest: Trump’s executive orders on aid and immigration have effectively frozen the Afghan SIV program, stranding thousands of Afghans in the process of coming to the United States.

New from me: Letters obtained by The Diplomat suggest a failed effort to manipulate the U.S. sanctions system on the part of a well-connected Uzbek businessman. It's a twisty tale, buckle up.

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