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.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.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.