UZBEKISTAN’S REVERSIONISM, AMERICA’S REVISIONISM, AND RUSSIA’S REVANCHISM
By Farkhad Tolipov (3/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The reversion of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy since 2003 was in fact the acknowledgement of an old geopolitical concept, according to which Central Asia is a zone of exclusive Russian dominance. The Russian influence in the region, which had weakened after 1991, is now being rapidly restored. It is very clear that the previously increasing American influence in Central Asia is rapidly melting away.FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Talaibek Koichumanov (3/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: International experience demonstrates that higher income, investment and growth rates as well as higher life expectancy are evident in those countries that have efficient and fair governmental institutions, where job promotion is based on the personal merits of the candidate for promotion and clear and efficient regulations are available. In these countries, everyone is subjected to the law and the state is not captured by elite groups who pursue their personal interests. Moreover, in these states civil society and mass media have an independent voice, strengthening the accountability of the Government.AZERBAIJAN IN THE RUSSIAN-IRANIAN VISE
By Ariel Cohen and Conway Irwin (3/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On February 21-22, 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited President Ilham Aliyev in Baku to mark the start of the “Year of Russian Culture” in Azerbaijan. The two presidents discussed economic cooperation, a military-technical commission to facilitate Russian military sales to Azerbaijan, and, presumably, Azerbaijan’s position on Iranian nuclear enrichment. Some analysts believe that Putin is pressuring Aliyev to support Russia in opposing UN sanctions against Iran and to weaken U.TENGRISM: IN SEARCH FOR CENTRAL ASIA’S SPIRITUAL ROOTS
By Marlene Laruelle (3/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Tengrist movement appeared in the 1990s in Central Asia and in Russia. It particularly developed in Tatarstan, where, since 1997, the only Tengrist periodical, Bizneng-Yul, has been published. It later spread throughout Central Asia.Visit also
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.