MAKING SENSE OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION’S ASTANA SUMMIT
By Stephen Blank (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Sources disagree as to who was behind the summit’s communiqué concerning the bases, attributing the initiative either to Karimov, Russian President Vladimir Putin or to China’s President, Hu Jintao. However it is clear that several weeks if not months of Sino-Russian pressure upon Central Asian governments lay behind it. Russia has consistently and publicly sought to limit the duration of the U.RUMSFELD IN KYRGYZSTAN: HALTING AMERICA’S FALTERING POSITION IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Erica Marat (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: This was the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s second visit to Kyrgyzstan since the ouster of the former Akaev regime on March 24.THE UNOCAL-CNOOC-CHEVRON TRIANGLE DRAMA: BUSINESS AS USUAL OR POLITICAL DOMINATION?
By Niklas Swanström (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Chevron is seven times larger than CNOOC, but as CNOOC is a state-owned enterprise, it has the backing of China’s foreign currency reserve, dwarfing Chevron’s economic turnover and for that matter the economic value of all US oil companies together. It has been noted in the U.S.GEORGIA’S POLITICS REMAIN CRISIS-PRONE
By Blanka Hancilova (7/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The opposition and the ruling party representatives engaged in a fist-fight in the parliament on July 1. This confrontation followed the overnight riots which broke out in a courtroom as the Tbilisi City court decided on three-month pre-trial detention of two wrestling champions detained on extortion charges. The riot police broke up the rally after protesting friends and relatives blocked the main thoroughfare of the city, Rustaveli Avenue.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.