But the vexing questions about security, ideology, and nationalism will continue to bedevil the Tajikistan-Taliban relationship. Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert.

Scarborough unpacks some of the assumptions that come with the standard narrative, assessing the impact of glasnost, democratization and nationalism in feeding Tajikistan’s post-independence crisis.

Protesters demanded the resignation of the government and the nationalization of property held by Tajikistan's Communist Party. 3 As the Soviet Union crumbled, Tajik nationalism surged and ...

A group of more than 20 people, some shouting nationalist slogans, are reported to have attacked a Tajik train crossing Russia. The attack took place at midnight on October 26, Asia-Plus news agency ...

an identity – that challenge the hegemonic Tajik nationalism bred by authoritarian President Emomali Rahmon in faraway Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital. People have also learned how to stave off ...

“Nationalism” is one of those words that tends to appear in print after a modifier. Nationalism can be “ethnic” or “economic.” It can be “white,” “black” or “Christian.” It ...

Is there a corner of the world untouched—or as some would put it, unsullied—by nationalism? Our own president-elect has called himself a nationalist, a most un-American locution, when you ...