TURKMENISTAN AND UZBEKISTAN – FRIENDS INDEED OR FRIENDS IN NEED?
By Maral Madi (12/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On November 19, 2004, Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov paid an official visit to Uzbekistan at the invitation of President Islam Karimov. Niyazov landed not in Tashkent, but in Bukhara which signaled the locality of the issues discussed. Their last meeting took place in September 2000, and subsequently relations became increasingly tense, given the Turkmenistan’s neutrality stance, its relations with the Taliban regime, increasing nationalism and discrimination of ethnic Uzbeks, and frequent border clashes since 2002 spiraling down a vicious circle of mutual accusations.A YEAR PAST GEORGIA’S ROSE REVOLUTION: A TURNING POINT IN RUSSIA’S CAUCASIAN STRATEGY?
By Khatuna Salukvadze (12/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Coinciding with the continual developments in Georgia’s secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, bold steps in military cooperation with NATO and the U.S. mark the first anniversary of Georgia’s Rose Revolution.THE EXPANSION OF CACO: A RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE OR A CENTRAL ASIAN SURRENDER?
By Farkhad Tolipov (12/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Only days after the dismantlement of Soviet Union, the five newly independent Central Asian states – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – launched their own re-unification experiment. (After the proclamation of its neutrality, Turkmenistan discontinued participation in the Central Asian summits, though it did not withdraw officially). They slowly attempted to advance their own Commonwealth vis-à-vis the CIS and applied different titles to their formation.POLITICAL PARTIES, REGIONALISM AND PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Aya Telekova (11/17/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Most political parties in Kyrgyzstan identify themselves either as in opposition or as centrists. In the early independence the main opposition parties had been set up by southerners. Absamat Masaliev, Adakhan Madumarov, Omurbek Tekebaev and other southern opponents are affiliated to the different opposition political parties.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.