BALUCH UNREST IN PAKISTAN: STRIFE BETWEEN RIGHTS AND RESOURCES?
By Naveed Ahmad (3/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:Spread over 350,000 square kilometers, Baluchistan remains extremely underdeveloped with only marginal access to education and health facilities, even in the major towns. The strategically placed energy-rich province bordering Afghanistan and Iran meets 40 percent of the country’s needs of natural gas. Marred by security threats from India and the absence of a consistent democratic regime, Pakistan has been mismanaged by successive governments since 1947.EFFECT OF THE RUSSIAN WAR ON CHECHEN CHILDREN: EXTREMISM IN THE YOUNG GENERATIONS?
By Murad Batal Shishani (3/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:the two wars in Chechnya affected the humanitarian situation there significantly. Chechens suffers from countless health problems, in part due to attacks by Russian forces with weapons containing highly toxic substances. It has been established that 86 percent of the Chechens suffer from psychological disturbances; this is 30 percent more than the number of people suffering from mental problems in the areas around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine following the 1984 explosion.KAZAKHSTAN’S INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN DISSARRAY
By Roger N. McDermott (3/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:On February 11 Sarsenbayev was stopped in a Toyota Camry car at around 9 PM in an Almaty district. He was kidnapped along with his driver and bodyguard, and taken to the city district known as Malaya Stanitsa. All three individuals were murdered shortly afterwards.PUTIN TRIES TO PULL AZERBAIJAN INTO SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
By Pavel K. Baev (3/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND:From the very start of his presidency, Putin sought to compensate the strong priority in Russia’s foreign policy granted to Armenia, a trusted military ally, with a new emphasis on building ties with Azerbaijan. Paying his first visit to Baku in January 2001, he sought to establish a personal rapport with President Heydar Aliyev, while never bothering to develop any ‘special chemistry’ with Kocharyan. Accentuating their common background in the KGB, Putin skillfully played on the age difference, assuring the ‘grand master’ of Azerbaijan’s politics that Moscow would have no objections whatsoever against his cherished plan for the transfer of power to his son Ilham.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.