RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON GEORGIA: THE U.N. REPORT
By David J. Smith (7/11/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four months ago today, Georgia’s Upper Kodori (Upper Abkhazia) region was attacked by ground-to-ground rockets and an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), apparently fired from a helicopter. The area is the only part of Abkhazia controlled by the Tbilisi government. UNOMIG has been investigating the incident and is about to publish its report, likely to be inconclusive.
SCO SEEKS TO EXPAND, CONSOLIDATE AFTER BISHKEK SUMMIT
By Erica Marat (7/11/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On July 9 the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) Ministers of Foreign Affairs convened in Bishkek to discuss the agenda for the upcoming summit. The summit will collect the presidents of nine Eurasian countries in Bishkek and mark an unprecedented geopolitical development in the Central Asian region. Today, the SCO is quickly gaining international weight, aiming to eventually become an Asian alternative to NATO.
THE STAVROPOL RIOTS: TRENDS IN THE RUSSIAN EXTREME-RIGHT
By Dmitry Shlapentokh (7/11/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia experienced ethnic riots in Kondopoga, Karelia, in 2006 and in Stavropol in the southern part of European Russia in May and early June 2007. Patterns were similar; both centered on clashes between Russians and Chechens. These events begin to form a trend of the type of nationalist movements developing in Russia, which are decidedly different from the Yeltsin era.
GETTING A STEP AHEAD: THE WEST’S ROLE IN THE NEW INFORMATION WAR
By Benjamin Abner (7/11/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Media is in no short supply in Uzbekistan, but state media and access to independent and international media is tightly controlled by the state. Historically, Western governments have actively promoted alternative information in the region through shortwave radio broadcasts, satellite television, and Internet media. In recent years however, Uzbekistan has almost completely stamped out independent and international voices as well as Western-funded programs to support them.
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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.