Field Reports
CIPDD - SUPPORTING THE CAUCASIAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA
By Paata Gurgenidze, Project coordinator, Promoting Peace and Democracy in the Caucasus Through Support (4/26/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) was founded in 1992 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization involved in research, publishing, organizing conferences, and other kinds of activities. Its main objectives are to promote democratic and free-market values, foster better understanding between the peoples of the Caucasus, and encourage non-partisan theoretical analysis of problems related to the post-communist transition in the Caucasus region. Currently, CIPDD publishes the South Caucasian Human Rights Monitor and a monthly bulletin in English called Army and Society in Georgia.
STUDY OF NATIONALITIES WORLD CONVENTION
By Bea Hogan, freelance journalist (4/26/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More than 600 experts and scholars gathered last weekend in New York to attend the Fifth Annual Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, a three-day event hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and featuring 100 panels on national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflicts, and state building in the former Soviet republics. Since the 1970s, Columbia University’s Harriman Institute has included nationality and minority issues in its curriculum.
The panels covered a wide region – from Central Asia and the Caucasus region to Central and Eastern Europe -- and took various approaches to the material, from region-specific to historical and thematic.
NEW YORK HOSTS SUMMER-LONG MONGOLIAN FESTIVAL
By Bea Hogan, former Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan, recent graduate of the School of Internationa (6/7/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Mongolians have taken New York City by storm. The Festival of Mongolia kicked off the weekend of May 19th and will officially run through July, with some exhibits open until late fall. Two years in the planning, the festival aims to cast a place and people best known for their fearless 13th-century ruler Genghis Khan in a warmer, friendlier light.
KYRGYZSTAN ADOPTS RUSSIAN AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
By Maria Utyaganova, student in the International Relations Department, American University in Kyrgyzst (6/7/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On May 26 the parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic reached the rapid and nearly unanimous decision to make the Russian language one of two official languages of the country. On May 29, President Askar Akaev signed legislation into law. The move was primarily an attempt to stem the increasing out-migration of Kyrgyzstan’s Russian-speaking population to Russia.
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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.