ASIAC Days in Central Asia
I contributed to organise ASIAC Days in Central Asia, the first ASIAC regional conference, which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 7-8 September 2026 I feel blessed for the week I spent with ASIAC – Association for Studies on Central and the Caucasus and CAPS Unlock organising and running the first edition of the ASIAC Days…
New publication on Post-Soviet Affairs – Central Asian public opinion on China
Neafie, Jessica, Maracchione, Frank, McGarry, Ciara and Aigerim Aibassova. (2026). Audiences, contexts, and cues: explaining divergent public perceptions of China in Central Asia. Post-Soviet Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2026.2715664 I am so happy to announce the publication on Post-Soviet Affairs of the first open access academic article of a series we are preparing on Central Asian public opinion…
BISA 2026 – New SPERI Live on ‘second China shock’, and other panels
In June, I joined the BISA annual conference 2026 in Brighton, where I convened a roundtable titled “The global impact of China’s technological leadership and offshoring: Towards a second China shock?”, hosted by the International Political Economy Working Group (IPEG), which was recorded for the SPERI Presents…LIVE podcast series. With Yvette To (Hong Kong Polytechnic) Shizhi…
