Field Reports
FAKE WAR – REAL CONSEQUENCES?
By Jenny Söderström (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 13 March the Georgian television audience was – unknowingly – subjected to what can be described as a large-scale socio-psychological experiment. In a special edition of its prime-time news bulletin, one of Georgia’s bigger TV channels, Imedi, broadcasted a mock report of a Russian invasion of the country. An announcement before the show explained that a fictive ‘special report’ would follow, illustrating a worst-case scenario of how the situation in the country could develop, if Georgian society does not unite against Russia.
NO BREAKTHROUGH IN KARABAKH TALKS
By Haroutiun Khachatrian (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The latest meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in Sochi on January 25 was marked by some progress in agreeing on the Basic principles for the settlement of the Nagorno–Karabakh conflict, giving rise to certain expectations of further rapprochement. In particular, it was reported that during the meeting in Sochi, which was organized by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan reached an agreement on the preamble of the Basic principles of a settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh. It was also reported that shortly before the Sochi meeting, an amended version of the Madrid principles of the Karabakh settlement were presented by the mediators (the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group, the U.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CONCERNED OVER HUMAN RIGHTS IN GEORGIA
By Maka Gurgenidze (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. State Department’s 2009 Human Rights Report expresses concern over cases of human rights violations and the state of media freedom in Georgia, while it also notes positive steps taken by the government towards continued democratic development in the country.
U.S. AIRBASE LIKELY TO STAY IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Joldosh Osmonov (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
As the one-year agreement on the U.S. airbase at Manas is at the point of renewal, recent visits of high-ranking U.
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Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
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.