Author Archive for Jonathan Hillman

Mr. Jonathan E. Hillman is a fellow with the Simon Chair in Political Economy and director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at CSIS.

Happy Birthday, Kyrgyzstan: Central Asia’s Island of Democracy Turns 25

by Jonathan Hillman • September 1, 2016 • 0 Comments

By Jonathan Hillman — For the first time in a long time, perhaps ever, Kyrgyzstan was trending on Twitter this week, and for all the wrong reasons. On August 30, a suicide bomber drove into the Chinese embassy in Bishkek,…