Field Reports
EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION SIGNED AND SECURITY DISCUSSED IN ASTANA
By Maria Utyaganova, student in the International Relations Department, American University-Kyrgyzstan (10/25/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
From October 10-12 the leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tadjikistan met in Astana, Kazakhstan to negotiate and sign a document establishing the Eurasian Economic Union. This newly formed international organization is intended to solve the problems of external trade and customs policies by establishing common trade laws on goods and services. The new payment system and new single order of currency control and regulation is hoped to be more effective than its Customs Union predecessor which did not lead to the successful and effective economic integration of its members.
MACHINATIONS MAR UZBEKISTAN’S BANKING SYSTEM
By Farangis Said, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The banking system of Uzbekistan experienced significant changes recently when Acting Chairman of the National Bank of Uzbekistan (NBU), Zaynutdin Mirkhodjaev, and his first deputy Georgi An were removed from office at their "own request" according to President Karimov’s decree. But soon Georgi An was charged with "financial machinations" and according to rumors is currently a fugitive from justice. The NBU is the country’s largest bank with USD $400 million and four billion Uzbekistan soms in capital.
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA FOUNDED BY AGA KHAN FOUNDATION
By Konstantin Parshin, Dushanbe, Tajikistan (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The University of Central Asia, the world’s first university dedicated exclusively to education and research on mountain regions and societies, has been launched by the Aga Khan Foundation and will be built in Khorog city. Khorog is the administrative centre of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of Tajikistan. On 31 August, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, the Aga Khan, and the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed a treaty to establish the university.
UZBEKISTAN’S MILLENNIAL COTTON HARVEST
By Jennifer Balfour, educator in Central Asia (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
"Hamma Paktaga!" The road block said it all. Get out there everyone. There’s cotton to be picked! The first cotton harvest of the new millennium continues as relentless as ever.
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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.