AZERBAIJAN UNDER IRANIAN AND RUSSIAN PRESSURE ON RELATIONS TO U.S.
By Fariz Ismailzade (11/3/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Since the independence of Azerbaijan was restored in 1991, the political leadership of the country has followed a foreign policy course toward integration with Western political, economic and security institutions. This has particularly intensified since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, after which Azerbaijan joined the U.S.FINANCING RUSSIA’S CENTRAL ASIAN EXPANSION
By Gregory Gleason (11/3/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: More than a decade of experience of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) demonstrates the substantial barriers facing integration among the Eurasian countries. The CIS was originally established in 1991 for two purposes—to contribute to the collective security of the post-Soviet countries and to maintain the “common economic space” of the Soviet period. The CIS’s economic purpose proved more challenging than its framers anticipated.ARE AFGHANISTAN’S ELECTIONS A WATERSHED?
By Stephen Blank (10/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:Many of the fears cited above remain valid, even if the conclusion they seemingly pointed to has not taken place. NATO still does not have enough troops outside of Kabul and members are stalling on effecting major command reforms that would unite this force with the American led force and thus ensure unity of command, as well as multiplying those forces’ strike and peace support capabilities. There seems to be no good reason for this stalling and undoubtedly NATO secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is tired of going around with a begging bowl, to use his words, to get members to contribute to a commitment which they freely made.RUSSIAN MILITARY BASE IN TAJIKISTAN INAUGURATED
By Hooman Peimani (10/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:The Soviet Union’s fall ended Russia’s military presence in most of the Central Asian and Caucasian countries. Moscow maintained some of its bases in Georgia and Armenia, while keeping a small number of troops in the Central Asian countries, excluding Uzbekistan, to guard their international borders as their respective military forces in-formation were unable to perform the task. As a result, Russia ended up with a limited degree of military presence in its former Asian republics in the early 1990s.Visit also
Staff Publications
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.