UZBEK PRESIDENT KARIMOV VISITS PAKISTAN
By Asma Shakir Khwaja (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Uzbekistan were established on May 10, 1992, and as a result Pakistan established its embassy in Tashkent in June 1992. Pakistan had an early interest, sending a 23-member delegation to Uzbekistan in December 1991. Relations have not been unproblematic, though.KAZAKHSTAN BUILDS PARTNERSHIP WITH GERMANY
By Roger N McDermott (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev has designated Germany as the country’s leading partner in Europe. During talks in Berlin on May 18, he noted the depth of shared interests and perspectives between Germany and Kazakhstan. “Kazakhstan considers Germany its key partner in Europe.PUBLIC CONFIDENCE, TRUST AND PARTICIPATION IN POST-SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA
By Timur Dadabaev (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In the majority of Central Asian countries, what is desired by the population is often assumed based on the views of governmental officials. This leads to the lack of public confidence in their respective governments. The Asia Barometer survey in the fall of 2005 registered that in most Central Asian countries (except Turkmenistan) the public trusts their central government only to a degree.RUSSIAN CHECHNYA POLICY: “CHECHENIZATION” TURNING INTO “KADYROVIZATION”?
By Emil Souleimanov (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Even with Vladimir Putin having made, as it turned out retroactively, a strategic wager on the Kadyrov clan, it appears that Moscow has never abandoned its tried and true system of checks and balances. For instance, Bislan Gantamirov, perhaps the most noteworthy “opposition leader” in modern Chechen history, along with some pro-Russian political figures, was long kept in Chechnya as a trump card that could be played as needed if the former mufti, Ahmad Kadyrov, were to become unmanageable. They had been promised a brilliant future in politics, but were told that their time simply had not yet come.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.