WILL AZERBAIJAN JOIN THE WAR ON IRAQ?
By Gulnara Ismailova (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: During the fall of 2002, the American pressure on Iraq increased gradually to a point where the probability of a military campaign being launched only several hundred kilometers from the Caucasus is extremely high. As late January, with the report of UN inspectors on Iraq, appears increasingly to be the moment of truth regarding an invasion of Iraq, the Caucasian states are pondering how to relate to this development. Georgia and Azerbaijan already strongly aligned themselves with the U.IRAN\'S CASPIAN POLICY: TIME TO MAKE A DECISION?
By Nasib Nassibli (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In the aftermath of the Soviet Union\'s collapse, Iran confronted the appearance of new states on its northern borders with concern. Iran launched unprecedented diplomatic activity to protect its national security interests and to prevent undesirable geopolitical developments. Specifically, Iran initiated the signing of a plethora of bilateral and multilateral agreements to induce cooperation between the Caspian littoral states.INDIA\'S MOUNTING MILITARY PRESENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Stephen Blank (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: After 1991 India was jolted economically and politically into forging a coherent strategy for Central Asia. Indian analysts and officials began to discern not just the Islamic extremist threat orchestrated by Pakistan\'s ISI that could lead, and has since heightened the upsurge of separatist violence in Kashmir, but also perceived an increased sense that China and Pakistan were seeking enhanced influence in Central Asia to \'encircle\' India politically, strategically, and economically. The separatist and terrorist threat that steadily grew in 2000-2002 forcefully brought these dangers to India\'s attention even before September 11.THE U.S., RUSSIA AND IRAN: THE COMING CRISIS
By Ariel Cohen (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Last December, international media uncovered satellite imagery, which is interpreted to be two secret Iranian installations involved in uranium enrichment. According to senior U.S.Visit also
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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.