TAJIKISTAN REACTS TO INCREASING UNREST IN AFGHANISTAN
By Dmitry Shlapentokh (10/14/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The situation in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly grave, at least from the perspective of the Western alliance. The Central Asian states bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan being a prime example, seem increasingly alarmed, implying that they may put their hopes to Russia for security guarantees. Tajikistan nevertheless recently demonstrated that its elite does not trust anyone, Russia included, and is possibly looking for other ways of dealing with the Taliban threat.
GENERAL McCRYSTAL’S CONFIDENTIAL ASSESSMENT: A CASE FOR REDEFINING VICTORY IN AFGHANISTAN
By Roman Muzalevsky (10/14/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A confidential assessment of the situation in Afghanistan by the head of NATO troops, General Stanley McChrystal, points to a light in the dark tunnel that can only be sustained if Presdient Barack Obama approves McChrystal’s request for up to 40,000 additional U.S.
ONE YEAR LATER: GEORGIAN POLITICAL REFORM AND THE WEST AFTER THE 2008 WAR
By Julie A. George (10/14/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The human suffering and acrimony that accompanied the August 2008 war was accompanied by constructive criticism. One month after the cessation of violence and less than a year after the violent dispersal of protesters in Tbilisi by Georgian police, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Schaeffer encouraged President Saakashvili to “strengthen your democracy.
EU INQUIRY REJECTS RUSSIA’S JUSTIFICATIONS FOR GEORGIA WAR
By Svante E. Cornell (9/30/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The release of a much anticipated EU-commissioned report into the causes of the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008 predictably spread the blame for the conflict around. Georgia got its share of the blame, but the text of the report is devastating to Russia’s narrative of the conflict.
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