IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM MODIFIES TURKISH STRATEGY AND POLICY
By Stephen Blank (4/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Turkey has stated that it has sent messages to Iran asking it to desist from building nuclear weapons. Indeed, as an aspirant to membership in the EU it could do no less without enraging Brussels, and the key members of the EU who are leading the negotiations with Iran. But it has a delicately balanced relationship with Iran.BETWEEN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND HARASSEMENT: CHRISTIAN CONVERTS IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Anara Tabyshalieva (4/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The first historical movement of Christians in Central Asia was the Nestorian Church in the fourth century. Nestorian Christian successfully converted a number of Turks to the new faith in the medieval ages. The second migration was related mostly Orthodox Christian during Russia’s colonization of the region in the nineteenth century.KAZAKHSTAN’S MILITARY ARMAMENT PRIORITIES
By Roger N McDermott & Col. Igor Mukhamedov (4/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Astana’s new sense of confidence in its own defense industries was much in evidence on February 10 when Galym Orazbakov, President of Kazakhstan Engineering National Company, explained in Astana, “We expect the export of the company’s special products to double in 2006,” comparing with its record in 2005. This will be most notable in Kazakhstan’s future exports to the Indo-Pacific region. “Recently, we held talks with our partners in India and Egypt who are planning to hold tenders for the purchase of arms.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.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.