Contact:
Tel: +46-18-471-16-93
jengvall /a/ silkroadstudies.org

Ongoing Projects at the Program:

- Narcotics, Organized Crime and Security in Eurasia

Johan Engvall
Nonresident Research Fellow

Johan Engvall is a Nonresident research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center. His expertise is in state-building, nondemocratic regimes, security politics and transnational organized crime, with a particular focus on Central Asia. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Government from Uppsala University, as well as degree in Political Science from Stockholm University.

Publications

Johan Engvall, The State as an Investment Market: An Analytical Framework for Interpreting Politics and Bureaucracy in Kyrgyzstan, Uppsala University, 2011.

Johan Engvall, Flirting with State Failure: Power and Politics in Kyrgyzstan since Independence, Silk Road Paper, July 2011.

Johan Engvall, "Kyrgyzstan’s Revolt: Prospects for Stability in a Failing State", Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 14 April 2010.

Johan Engvall, "Efter transtitionen: Kirgizistans postsovjetiska politiska system [After Transition: Kyrgyzstan’s Post-Soviet Political System], Nordisk Ostforum [Nordic Journal of East European Studies], Volume 22, No. 3-4 2008, pp. 247-270.

Johan Engvall, "Kyrgyzstan: Anatomy of a State", Problems of Post-Communism, Volume 54, No. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 33-45

Johan Engvall and Kairat Osmonaliev, " The Dismissal of Minister Suvanaliev and the Struggle against Organized Crime in Kyrgyzstan" Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 21 February 2007.

Johan Engvall, "The State under Siege: The Drug Trade and Organized Crime in Kyrgyzstan," Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 6, September 2006.

Johan Engvall and Kairat Osmonaliev, "Uncertain Future for Kyrgyzstan’s Drug Control Agency" Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 21 February 2007.

Op-Eds

“Ny demokratiseringsvåg”, Uppsala Nya Tidning, 1 April 2005.

”Svensk utrikespolitik bär en del av skulden”, Expressen, 30 April 2005.