Frederick Starr's guest appearances

Frederick Starr

The John Batchelor Show

Rumi Forum Podcast

Jargal DeFacto

Westminster Institute talks

Hoshimov Iqtisodiyoti (Hoshimov's Economics)

Michael Doran

Parag Khanna

Daniel Green

Robert Spencer

John Moore

Bill Gertz

Jeff Moore

Mark Helprin

Sebastian Gorka

Ben Hodges

Nathan Lean

Diana West

Robert Spalding

Michael Fitzgerald

Robert McFarlane

OwlTail

Dr. S. Frederick Starr is the author of Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, which chronicles a forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. The book has been translated into 13 languages. He is the founding Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Instituteand Silk Road Studies Program, a joint transatlantic research center affiliated with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington (where he is a Research Professor). His research on the countries of Greater Central Asia, their history, development, internal dynamics, as well as on US policy towards the region has resulted in twenty-two books and 200 published articles. His most recent book is The Ferghana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia. Dr. Starr is a frequent commentator on the affairs of the region, and the author of numerous articles in journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Review, Far East Economic Review, and op-eds in various leading American and international newspapers. During the past decade he has returned repeatedly to the challenge of reopening continental-wide transport passing through Central Asia and Afghanistan, which he sees as a key to success in Afghanistan itself. Dr. Starr was the founding Chairman of the Kennan Institute in Washington, and served as Vice President of Tulane University and President of the Aspen Institute and of Oberlin College (1983-94). He was closely involved in planning the University of Central Asia and the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy and is a trustee of the Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. He earned his PhD in History at Princeton, MA at King’s College, Cambridge, and his BA at Yale, and holds four honorary degrees.

Dr. S. Frederick Starr is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Enlightenment-Central-Conquest-Tamerlane-ebook/dp/B00F8MIJMQ/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane</a>, which chronicles a forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. The book has been translated into 13 languages. He is the founding Chairman of the <a href="https://www.silkroadstudies.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Central Asia-Caucasus Institute</a>and <a href="https://www.silkroadstudies.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Silk Road Studies Program</a>, a joint transatlantic research center affiliated with the <a href="https://www.sais-jhu.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies</a>, Johns Hopkins University in Washington (where he is a Research Professor). His research on the countries of Greater Central Asia, their history, development, internal dynamics, as well as on US policy towards the region has resulted in twenty-two books and 200 published articles. His most recent book is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ferghana-Valley-Central-Studies-Caucasus/dp/0765629984" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Ferghana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia</a>. Dr. Starr is a frequent commentator on the affairs of the region, and the author of numerous articles in journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Review, Far East Economic Review, and op-eds in various leading American and international newspapers. During the past decade he has returned repeatedly to the challenge of reopening continental-wide transport passing through Central Asia and Afghanistan, which he sees as a key to success in Afghanistan itself. Dr. Starr was the founding Chairman of the Kennan Institute in Washington, and served as Vice President of Tulane University and President of the Aspen Institute and of Oberlin College (1983-94). He was closely involved in planning the University of Central Asia and the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy and is a trustee of the Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. He earned his PhD in History at Princeton, MA at King’s College, Cambridge, and his BA at Yale, and holds four honorary degrees.

Dr. S. Frederick Starr: What Was Islamic Culture and What Happened to It?

Төв Ази, бүс нутгийн институтийн үүсгэн байгуулагч1. САМСА-д Монгол яаж орсон бэ?2. САМСА - ийн сургалт ба монголын залуучууд3. Хятадын ардчиллын хязгаарлалтын тухай4. Оросын улс төр ба "Коммунизмын шарталт" үргэлжилж байна5. Бүс нутгийн аюулгүй байдлын тухайОгноо: 2018.07.29

Төв Ази, бүс нутгийн институтийн үүсгэн байгуулагч 1. САМСА-д Монгол яаж орсон бэ? 2. САМСА - ийн сургалт ба монголын залуучууд 3. Хятадын ардчиллын хязгаарлалтын тухай 4. Оросын улс төр ба "Коммунизмын шарталт" үргэлжилж байна 5. Бүс нутгийн аюулгүй байдлын тухай Огноо: 2018.07.29

Др.Фредрих Старр (Dr. S. Frederick Starr)

For half a millennium Central Asia was the center of the world, with a booming economy, vital urban life, and an intellectual life that bridged antiquity and the Renaissance.  For half a millennium Central Asia was the center of the world, with a booming economy, vital urban life, and an intellectual life that bridged antiquity and the Renaissance. Because most of its scientists and thinkers wrote in Arabic it has been generally assumed that they were Arabs, and the specifically Central Asian setting of their lives and work ignored. Basing his presentation his new book, LOST ENLIGHTENMENT:CENTRAL ASIA'S GOLDEN AGE FROM THE ARAB CONQUEST TO TAMERLANE, FrederickStarr will present the main features of this lost golden age and consider what significance, if any, it has for the present.  S. Frederick Starr is the chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at SAIS. A former president of Oberlin College and the Aspen Institute, he was also founding chairman of the Kennan Institute in Washington and established the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the principal non-governmental funder of post-Katrina recovery in that city. He began his career in classical archaeology and has published 22 books. He is a trustee of the Nazarbayev University and was involved in planning four other universities in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

For half a millennium Central Asia was the center of the world, with a booming economy, vital urban life, and an intellectual life that bridged antiquity and the Renaissance. For half a millennium Central Asia was the center of the world, with a booming economy, vital urban life, and an intellectual life that bridged antiquity and the Renaissance. Because most of its scientists and thinkers wrote in Arabic it has been generally assumed that they were Arabs, and the specifically Central Asian setting of their lives and work ignored. Basing his presentation his new book, LOST ENLIGHTENMENT:CENTRAL ASIA'S GOLDEN AGE FROM THE ARAB CONQUEST TO TAMERLANE, FrederickStarr will present the main features of this lost golden age and consider what significance, if any, it has for the present. S. Frederick Starr is the chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at SAIS. A former president of Oberlin College and the Aspen Institute, he was also founding chairman of the Kennan Institute in Washington and established the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the principal non-governmental funder of post-Katrina recovery in that city. He began his career in classical archaeology and has published 22 books. He is a trustee of the Nazarbayev University and was involved in planning four other universities in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Central Asia's Golden Age: What Was It and What is Its Meaning Today? with S. Frederick Starr