ARMENIA’S RULING COALITION UNRAVELS
By Grigor Hakobyan (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On May 29th, Artur Baghdasaryan officially relinquished his position as the Chairman of National Assembly of Armenia. His resignation was caused by growing differences between his party and the presidential administration, as well as its partners in the coalition, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and the Republican Party of Armenia. To some external political observers, the history of disagreements between the outspoken Chair of National Assembly, often accused by his opponents for engaging in populism, began last year.THE “CARTOON CRISIS” IN IRANIAN AZERBAIJAN: IS AZERI NATIONALISM UNDERESTIMATED?
By Emil Souleimanov (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The matter of this unfortunate caricature is not an isolated affair. Indeed, it cannot be viewed simply in the context of Persian national folklore, in which the image of an “Azerbaijani” is depicted as the embodiment of rural stupidity, headstrongness and craftiness, as feeling lost in an urban environment and as speaking with a comical accent. The roots of the current crisis run much deeper.FOREIGN POLICY RE-ORIENTATION & POLITICAL SYMBOLISM IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Yaşar Sarı & Süreyya Yiğit (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The past couple of months have seen increased activity in Kyrgyz foreign policy. In April, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev visited Moscow on his first official state visit. It was also in April that the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry issued a statement declaring that the rent paid for the Manas Ganci air base used by the United States needed to be renegotiated.SPAT WITH RUSSIA HAS SAAKASHVILI NARROWING DOWN PRIORITIES
By Jaba Devdariani (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Saakashvili administration has set itself an ambitious agenda. Its priorities include changing the format of the Russian-dominated peacekeeping operations in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, setting the country firmly on a course towards NATO and the EU, and rectifying Georgia’s decrepit infrastructure and economy. Now, the Georgian leadership finds that all of these priorities are impossible to pursue simultaneously.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
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Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 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.