About: Jos Boonstra

Kazakhstan: Rising star or falling short of results?

Energy-rich Kazakhstan is a key country for the European Union as it seeks to diversify its energy supplies in Central Asia and the Caspian region, write Jos Boonstra and Tika Tsertsvadze.

Kyrgyzstan: En route to civil war?

Jos Boonstra, a senior researcher at Madrid-based think-tank FRIDE, draws up three scenarios for Kyrgyzstan after the country was rocked by violence last weekend.

Party politics is back in the Netherlands

The new Dutch government will have to come up with a tough economic reform policy and budgetary cut-back programme, while convincing the divided electorate that they are taking immigration seriously, writes Jos Boonstra, a senior researcher at Madrid-based think-tank FRIDE.