Edward Lemon

Edward Lemon is the DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow, Daniel Morgan Graduate School in Washington DC. His research examines security, Islam, migration and politics in Tajikistan and Eurasia.

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Tajikistan’s Crackdown in the Pamirs: Causes and Implications

06.01.2022 Edward Lemon

The second half of May saw the worst violence in the Pamir Mountain region of Tajikistan since the end of the civil war in 1997....

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Afghanistan

Tajikistan Breaks From Neighbors in Policy Toward Afghanistan

09.10.2021

Confronted with the new Taliban government in Afghanistan, adjacent Tajikistan has broken from its Central Asian neighbors, which have largely adopted a conciliatory posture, and...

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A Thaw Between Tajikistan and Iran, But Challenges Remain

07.10.2019 Edward Lemon

“Welcome to your second homeland,” President Emomali Rahmon told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani upon his arrival in Tajikistan for the fifth summit of the...

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Central Asia

The Transformation of the Uzbek-Tajik Relationship

03.12.2018

On March 9, Shavkat Mirziyoyev landed at Dushanbe airport, the first president of Uzbekistan to conduct a state visit to Tajikistan since 2000. Embraced by...

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