UZBEKISTAN’S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: GLASS HALF-FULL OR HALF-EMPTY?
By Aftab Kazi (2/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On December 26, 2004, official figures registered approximately 85% of the 14.32 million registered voters in Uzbekistan voting to elect the 120-member Legislative Chamber of the reformed bicameral Oliy Majlis (Parliament) and Kengashes (Councils). A total of 527 candidates from different parties filed applications.TOWARDS A BI-PARTY SYSTEM IN AZERBAIJAN?
By Fariz Ismailzade (2/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In August 2002 the national referendum, held at the initiative of then President Heydar Aliyev, put forth 29 questions to be decided by voters. Among them was the abolishment of the proportional system of elections to the Parliament. The voters overwhelmingly supported the idea, thus transforming Azerbaijan’s electoral system from ‘mixed’ to ‘majoritarian only.RUSSIA PUNISHES THE OSCE – AND PUTS PRESSURE ON GEORGIA
By Pavel K. Baev (2/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: For most of its history, the OSCE was Moscow’s favorite among European organizations, praised by Gorbachev as a key structure of his ‘all-European house’ and portrayed by Yeltsin as an alternative to NATO enlargement. Russia’s most cherished idea about this all-inclusive body has always been to create a top executive body shaped after the UN Security Council, with a few permanent members and veto rights. The majority of member-states, however, see no good reason for granting Russia such privileged status, so Moscow by the late 1990s had practically lost interest in the OSCE’s activities.HOW WILL BUSH’S NEW FOREIGN POLICY TEAM HANDLE CHECHNYA?
By Erin Mark (1/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The most recent war in Chechnya, though launched as a counter-terrorism operation, has done little to reduce the threat of violence. Conversely, it has spurred increasingly violent attacks and widened the chaotic space in which radicals can recruit and operate. Beslan was the most brutal illustration of this while simultaneously provoking an exception to the rule of ongoing international neglect of Chechnya.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.