WITH SADULAEV AND BASAYEV KILLED, GENERATION CHANGE IN THE CHECHEN LEADERSHIP NEARS
By Emil Souleimanov (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Doku Umarov was born in 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy of the mountainous South-Eastern Chechen Shatoy district. He comes from the Mulkkhoy teyp (clan) and is an adherent of Sufi Islam, the Qadiriyya brotherhood of sheik Kunta-Haji. A graduate of the Oil Institute in Grozny, he was involved in business in western Siberia until 1994.THE BATTLE OF FORUMS: TRANSFORMATION OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN EURASIA
By Taleh Ziyadov (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On June 22-23, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) held its summit in Minsk. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin transferred the chairmanship of the Council to Alexander Lukashenka of Belarus. In addition, Uzbekistan officially re-joined the club that it had left in 1999, increasing the number of member states to seven.UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR KYRGYZSTAN’S DRUG CONTROL AGENCY
By Johan Engvall & Kairat Osmonaliev (6/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In the wake of the political upheavals in March 2005, the influence of drug trafficking on the political system in Kyrgyzstan has expanded and reached unprecedented levels. A number of contract killings of high-level public figures have allegedly been connected to the illegal narcotics industry. The country is a preferred route for drug smuggling, with an estimated 15-20 percent of the opiates produced in Afghanistan transiting its territory.GEORGIA NEARING NEXT STEP TOWARD NATO MEMBERSHIP
By David J. Smith (6/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Former President Eduard Shevardnadze initiated Georgia’s first steps toward NATO. In 1998, Georgia invited the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) to offer top-down recommendations for comprehensive national security sector reform. In 2002, the United States began training the Georgian Armed Forces (GAF) in the Georgia Train and Equip Program (GTEP).Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.