HARD TIMES FOR PRESIDENT ALIYEV
By Anar Valiyev (4/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: During the commemoration of the Khojali massacre in late February, the Azerbaijani public was shocked by a pornographic scandal connected with Ganimat Zahidov, the editor-in-chief of the opposition Azadlig newspaper. On February 25, Zahidov and the Azadlig technical director Azer Ahmedov were both kidnapped and physically abused by a group of unknown people. During the press conference on the next day, Zahidov maintained that the kidnappers were beating him for publishing critical articles about President Aliyev.THE REVOLT IN KYRGYZSTAN AND TAJIKISTAN’S POLITICAL SITUATION
By Pulat Shozimov (4/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: One important implication of the Kyrgyz revolution was that it showed the political strength of the hitherto neglected southern regions of the country. The revolution may being southern forces to power, and has in any case strengthened the political power of the South. In this sense, the recent Kyrgyz events are reminiscent of the regionalism that characterized Tajikistan civil war in 1992-97.SAVING AFGHANISTAN: FROM POPPY TO PIPELINE
By Teymur Huseyinov and Hasanali Karasar (4/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The story of TAP is one of melancholy. Started in 1991 with the efforts of Bridas Corp., by the mid-1990s it was already a battleground between rival consortiums led by Unocal and Bridas with heavy Saudi involvement on both sides, including elements with ties to Osama bin Laden.GEORGIA AND UKRAINE: BUYING IRANIAN GAS?
By Hooman Peimani (4/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The idea of exporting Iranian natural gas via a pipeline Armenia and through it to Georgia and Ukraine emerged shortly after the Soviet Union’s disintegration. In search of consolidating their newly-achieved independence, reducing their heavy dependency on Russia and thus decreasing Moscow’s political influence in their countries, the three ex-Soviet states found importing oil and natural gas from Iran a feasible and inexpensive alternative to Russian energy. Tehran was very interested in such prospects as it was eager to increase its fuel exports and particularly its natural gas, whose exports at the time was next to nil despite having the world’s second largest gas reservoirs.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.