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This project seeks to tackle roadblocks to treatment adherence in tuberculosis (TB) treatment programs that are unique to the Ukrainian context, with special attention given to the concerns of TB/HIV co-infection. Rather than seeking to design or impose new health interventions, which are often met with resistance, this project seeks to identify current practices that could be altered, enhanced, or expanded in order to improve treatment adherence.

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Barriers to Treatment Adherence in Ukrainian Tuberculosis Control Programs (223 KB pdf)

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This study assesses the impact of think-tanks in Armenia primarily through qualitative interview-based research, focusing on three questions: First, what is the status of think tanks in Armenia? Second, what role do they play in policy formation? And third, how might they increase their relevance and influence? The study concludes that the think-tank field remains underdeveloped in Armenia and describes major obstacles to development.

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Think Tanks in Armenia: How the International Community Can Help (456 KB pdf)

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This survey sought to gather information regarding barriers impacting education for boys and girls around the world.

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Overview of the 2013 Teacher Survey

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Youth from Romania and Moldova gave voice to their personal stories of change in a participatory evaluation of the Youth Civic Engagement and Dialogue program. Using the Most Significant Change technique, more than 80 youth participated in an evaluation in which they gathered stories of change from each other and shared their recommendations for the future of the project.

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Formative Evaluation of the Youth Civic Engagement and Dialogue Program in Romania and Moldova (2 MB pdf)

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Russia needs to recruit more teachers, and pedagogical institutions can help. Nearly 80 percent of teachers in Russia have higher education, but this statistic hides a high level of variability. Most institutions deliver several forms of education: daytime, correspondence, evening, and non-residence. While correspondence teacher education is in high demand, empirical studies comparing the correspondence and daytime programs in Russia are rare.

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Pathways into Teaching: Policy, Practice, and Evidence from Russia (484 KB pdf)

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The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict continues to be one of the greatest obstacles to peace in the Caucasus region. Armenia and Azerbaijan both claim ownership of the territory. Despite the lengthy high-level official negotiation process that has yet to result in an agreement, initiatives at the grassroots or civil society level in the realm of education remain an underutilized resource in bringing peace to the Caucasus.

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Educating Peace: A Case Study of Peace Education Curricula in Armenia (528 KB pdf)

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While variation among the candidates for European Union (EU) membership in the Western Balkans is great, the main roadblock to progress is the same: entrenched elites for whom high quality institutional and economic reforms are costly. Croatia charts a relatively hopeful course. From his jail cell, former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader symbolizes the possibility that leaders of authoritarian parties will moderate party agendas and then overhaul state institutions in response to domestic and external pressure for reform.

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Enlargement in the Western Balkans: Can We Hope for “Sanaderization”? (454 KB pdf)

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My research examines the intellectual environment of the early twentieth-century Central Asia with a particular attention to the intellectuals of the Semirech'e oblast of Russian Turkestan. It investigates historical and social settings in which these intellectuals produced their works. It also examines cultural encounters and interactions among the intellectuals of Semirech'e and their Muslim counterparts in other parts of the Russian empire and looks at the ways different interactions shaped their views.

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Central Asian Intellectuals of Semirech’e Oblast of Russian Turkestan (430 KB pdf)

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After decades of providing economic aid to Afghanistan, following the 1978 April Revolution and its December 1979 invasion of the country, the Soviet Union sought to remake the Afghan state economy, and society. The experience of the advisors who participated in these operations suggests that even the best attempts at development in Afghanistan will falter sans a new deal for the country’s ethno-confessional politics and a comprehensive trade and transit agreement with Pakistan and India.

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Soviet Economic Development Policy in Afghanistan (394 KB pdf)

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