TURKMEN-CHINESE ENERGY RELATIONS LIKELY TO CAUSE GROWING TENSION IN REGIONAL POLITICS
By Hooman Peimani (9/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:Having the world’s fourth largest economy, China’s steady economic growth has gradually turned it into the world’s second largest fossil energy importer. Its seemingly unstoppable economic growth will further increase its energy requirements in the foreseeable future. As a consequence, the Chinese have been seeking multiple energy suppliers since the late 1990s.WHAT SERGEY IVANOV AND RUSSIA’S ‘PARTY OF POWER’ THINK
By David J. Smith (10/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Writing as the leaders of the world’s seven industrial democracies winged their way to the G-8 Summit in Saint Petersburg, Ivanov’s immediate purpose was to discourage the guests from dwelling on matters that might embarrass Russian President Vladimir Putin in his hometown. Russia would brook no criticism. “One of the main democratic values,” writes Ivanov, “is the right to the sovereignty of a people in making independent decisions without any outside pressure.CAN THE KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS BE SAVED?
By Blanka Hancilova (9/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: As no elections are scheduled either in Armenia or Azerbaijan in 2006, the OSCE and its Chairman-in-Office, Belgium, considered that it would be politically feasible to reach a breakthrough in a resolution to the long-standing Karabakh conflict. The Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan discussed a one-page document listing basic principles for a settlement of the conflict at the February summit in Rambouillet, France, but failed to reach an agreement on two of nine principles. The Presidents met once more in June in Bucharest on the margins of the Black Sea Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation and again no progress was registered.THE ARMISTICE IN WANA: WILL IT LAST?
By Rizwan Zeb (9/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Since September 11, 2001 and the American attacks on Afghanistan, many have claimed that Pakistan’s Tribal areas, and especially Waziristan, right across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, is a readily available hideout for Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. Since the beginning of the on-going war against terror, Pakistan is a frontline state and a major U.S.Visit also
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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.
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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.