ECONOMIC SECURITY AND NATIONAL SECURITY: CONNECTED IN GEORGIA
By S. Enders Wimbush and Mamuka Tsereteli (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Mikheil Saakashvili begins his second term facing challenges he has not encountered previously as head of state. Georgians want better security, in both national and economic terms. The recent elections revealed that 77 percent of Georgians seek NATO membership for their country.
SELECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REGIMES IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Michael Jonsson and Christian Nils Larson (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes in Central Asia are in their infancy. Several of the region’s countries still lack the basic legal and institutional tools to counter informal and illicit money flows.
UMAROV’S CAUCASIAN EMIRATE: WHERE TO NOW FOR AKHMED ZAKAYEV?
By Kevin Daniel Leahy (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
October 2007 witnessed the latest in a series of charged discourses involving opposite wings of the Chechen rebel movement. On October 22, the then-separatist foreign minister, Akhmed Zakayev, issued an angst-ridden statement predicting that his president, Doku Umarov, would soon announce the creation of a “Caucasian Emirate†on the territory of the North Caucasus.
REGIONAL RIVALRIES CENTER ON KYRYGZSTAN
By Stephen Blank (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan, a relatively poor country with few natural resources, has experienced two years of ceaseless political struggles between the executive and legislature since the ill-fated ‘tulip revolution of 2005. Large-scale official corruption and criminality remain problems.
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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.