INDIA\'S MOUNTING MILITARY PRESENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Stephen Blank (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: After 1991 India was jolted economically and politically into forging a coherent strategy for Central Asia. Indian analysts and officials began to discern not just the Islamic extremist threat orchestrated by Pakistan\'s ISI that could lead, and has since heightened the upsurge of separatist violence in Kashmir, but also perceived an increased sense that China and Pakistan were seeking enhanced influence in Central Asia to \'encircle\' India politically, strategically, and economically. The separatist and terrorist threat that steadily grew in 2000-2002 forcefully brought these dangers to India\'s attention even before September 11.THE U.S., RUSSIA AND IRAN: THE COMING CRISIS
By Ariel Cohen (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Last December, international media uncovered satellite imagery, which is interpreted to be two secret Iranian installations involved in uranium enrichment. According to senior U.S.IS THE PROPOSED RUSSIA-CHINA-INDIA PIPELINE FEASIBLE?
By Aftab Kazi (7/3/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Last month in Islamabad, the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan agreed to revive interest in the construction of a 890 mile long, $2bn gas pipeline that was once initiated by UNOCAL and proposed as the ‘Centgas’ pipeline. This pipeline would connect the gas fields of Eastern Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast. Soon after the Agreement was signed, India’s ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation-Overseas) announced a counter-proposal “Energy Highway” to construct a Russia-China-India (RCI) pipeline.KAZAKHSTAN DESIRES MILITARY BASES TOO
By Rafis Abazov (7/3/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Kazakhstan has since independence struggled to build a strategic balance in Central Asia. Its leaders have consistently supported the establishment of a multiple-level security system with as many international players as possible, although Kazakhstan has remained a member to the CIS Collective Security Treaty. However, the painful economic transformation has greatly undermined the economic and military potential of the state.Visit also
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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.