ANTI-TERRORISM AS PRETEXT: RUSSIA TAKING AIM AT THE SOUTH CAUCASUS?
By Miriam Lanskoy (2/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: This CIS summit differed from previous summits in the marked absence of public complaints against Russia. In the past, the presidents of the CIS member states used the forum to criticize the CIS and Russia's leadership within it, sometimes even predicting its imminent demise. This time however, the presidents exhibited restraint and deference by refraining from public discussion of the war in Chechnya and their very strained relations with Russia.
KAZAKHSTAN\'S NEW FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW
By Robert M. Cutler (2/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Discontent among Kazakhstan\'s leadership over foreign direct investment goes back to the early 1990s. According to Astana, the administration of President George H.W.KAZAKHSTAN-CHINA BORDER TRADE THRIVES AFTER DEMARCATION TREATY
By Claes Levinsson and Ingvar Svanberg (2/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In the 17th century the Kazakh territory became a buffer between Russia and China, the two expanding empires of the Eurasian continent. However, after the conclusion of the Protocol of Tarbagatai in 1864, the Kazakh borders were delineated between Russia and China. The Russians regarded the provisional guard posts the Chinese had established on the steppe to prevent the nomads from moving into the contemporary Xinjiang region, as the actual border.
ARIANA AND INDIAN HIJACKINGS: THE TALIBAN CONNECTION
By Julie Sirrs (2/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Although the two airline hijackings were similar in several respects, it is the differences between the two incidents that are more telling. Both planes made several stops before reaching their final destination and poor airport security, in Katmandu and Kabul, were largely to blame for allowing the hijackings to occur. But as to the differences between the two hijacking incidences, the most glaring was the Taliban’s response.
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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.