CHECHNYA’S LATEST ECONOMIC INITIATIVE: THE POLITICS OF AUTONOMY
By Kevin Daniel Leahy (10/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:Early this September, the pro-Moscow Chechen parliament submitted a bill to the Russian State Duma, entitled “On Special Conditions for Entrepreneurial Activity in the Territory of the Chechen Republic”. This document proposes that Chechnya be exempted from paying customs tariffs; that investors in the republic be exempt from tax; and, perhaps most importantly, that jurisdiction over natural resources should reside with the Chechen government. None of these proposals was in the least bit surprising.THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION AS AN “ENERGY CLUB”, PORTENTS FOR THE FUTURE
By Stephen Blank (10/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:Kazakhstan is flirting with the United States in anticipation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s September, 2006 visit to America and Washington is trying to develop gas pipelines from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, or alternatively from just Afghanistan to India. In other words, the connection between energy, foreign relations, and security is growing closer and the rivalry for influence among the great powers and Central Asia’s neighbors continues apace. In conjunction with these trends recent Russian, Iranian, and Uzbek proposals that the Shanghai Cooperation organization become or create within it an “energy club” take on a new meaning.KAZAKHSTAN’S BOLASHAK PROGRAM: SHORT TERM FIX OR LONG TERM PROGRAM?
By Rafis Abazov (10/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:Kazakhstan entered independence on terms quite different from that of many developing countries. Unlike some states in Africa and Asia, the literacy rate in Kazakhstan was about 99 percent, and was backed up by the vast Soviet state-controlled network of schools and about 100 tertiary education institutions. The educational institutions trained professional cadres for the country largely free of charge and their network reached every corner of this vast republic.CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS IN UZBEKISTAN: A CHANCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT?
By Douglas L. Tookey (9/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:Uzbekistan faces a number of threats to the environment. The government, either because of a lack of resources or a lack of political will, often responds less than effectively to these challenges. In the past, mahallas (local community associations) and, more recently, civil society organizations have helped to fill the gap.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.