OVERFISHING OF STURGEON COULD HARM AZERBAIJAN’S CAVIAR EXPORT
By Gulnara Ismailova (6/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The environmental situation developing in the Caspian basin has been receiving increasing attention, in parallel to the discovery and extraction of large amounts of oil from the Caspian. If one of the reasons for the Caspian sea’s fame is oil, another is the fishing of valuable breeds of sturgeon, especially the Beluga. The Caspian Sea is the preserve of 90% of the world’s sturgeon population.A NEW SILK ROAD? TAJIKISTAN-CHINA BORDER CROSSING OPENS
By Sultonbek Aksakalov (6/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: China and Tajikistan established diplomatic relations a year after Tajikistan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, the two countries have strengthened bilateral cooperation in economy, security, anti-narcotic efforts and environmental protection, rendering support to each other in international affairs. Both Chinese and Tajik government have often claimed that the border between China and Tajikistan will become a site of peace and friendship between the two geographical neighbors, political allies and economic partners.YET ANOTHER ROSE REVOLUTION? GEORGIA’S “TWO BROTHERS” CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH OSSETIA
By Theresa Freese (6/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Georgian government’s strategy in South Ossetia is threefold. First, anti-contraband activities are meant to financially weaken the authorities and pro-Russian criminal figures governing South Ossetia and to provide security forces to the region. Second, Kmara and civil society activists are operating in Tskhinvali to attract revolutionary support from within the Ossetian community.COLLECTIVE SECURITY EXERCISES IN CENTRAL ASIA: WRONG MEDICINE?
By Aziz Soltobaev (5/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) of the Collective Security Treaty are designed to combat international extremist groups. This year, collective security exercises will be conducted in a different way than previously. Military units and observers of members states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will take part in massive scale tactical exercises, although they are not part of the CSTO.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.