By Stephen Blank (5/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: NATO’s difficulties are well known and are part of the larger set of issues plaguing the Transatlantic relationship among the allies. Nevertheless, it has consistently evolved since the 1990s into an organization whose main functions are crisis management, collective security, and peace and stability operations. This transformation is abundantly clear in NATO enlargement, the ongoing operations in the former Yugoslavia, and the military reforms taking place at varying speeds within the members’ armed forces.By David Darchiashvili (5/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Georgia has become a focus for U.S. policy in Eurasia not only in terms of spreading the ideals of freedom and democracy, but also in terms of geo-economics and geo-strategy.By Andrew McGregor (5/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On April 3, 2003, the man who claims the leadership of Russia\'s twenty million Muslims brandished a sword at a rally of 4,000 people in Ufa, Bashkortostan, and declared a jihad against U.S. forces and U.By Aftab Kazi (5/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Regional economic and political pressures as well as strategic payoffs by the United States prevented the emergence of the RCI grouping so far. The American-British victory in Iraq and disagreements over the U.S.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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