Field Reports
SECURITY MEASURES INCRESASE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY – CENTRAL ASIA
By Dariya Alieva (11/17/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
AUCA, based on the American curriculum, was created as the Kyrgyz-American School under the Kyrgyz State National University in 1993, and later was founded as the first Liberal Arts Institution in Central Asian region in 1997. The former US Vice President Al Gore and former first Lady Hillary Clinton attended the official opening ceremonies in 1993 and 1997. With a total enrollment of about 1050 students, AUCA is the Alma Mater of roughly 200 students graduating yearly from Central Asian region and outside.GEORGIA’S BATTLE WITH CORRUPTION’
By Kakha Jibladze (11/17/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In politics perception is just as powerful as fact, and the perception that the new regime is overstepping its authority is threatening to overshadow the progress made over the past year. On October 27 Zurab Tchiaberashvili, the mayor of Tbilisi, called a press conference after receiving a gift from Zurab Adamia, the head of a district in Tbilisi. The conference was aired live on television as Tchiaberashvili accused Adamia of bribery and fired him.KAZAKH SECURITY SERVICES TRUMPET VICTORY OVER “AL-QAIDA MEMBERS”
By Marat Yermukanov (11/17/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
According to him the terrorist group included 8 Kazakh and 4 Uzbek nationals, who had been perpetrating subversive activities in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan under direct orders from two leaders (amirs) of the network, Akhmed Baimurzayev and Zhakshybek Baimurzayev. The latter, according to the National Security Committee, was the resident of Talas region of Kyrgyzstan and played a significant role during the incursions of Batken region in Kyrgyzstan by Islamic militants in 1999 and 2000. Reportedly, Zhakshybek Baimurzayev, who possessed Kazakh, Uzbek and Kyrgyz passports, and belonged to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), directed the activities of the terrorist group in Kazakhstan.WILL RUSSIA HELP DIFFUSE KAZAKH-UZBEK TENSION?
By Marat Yermukanov (11/3/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Over the last decade, Astana came up with a number of confidence-building initiatives aimed at developing a constructive dialogue between India and Pakistan, speaking out for peaceful settlement of Arab-Israeli conflict, and even hosting a Congress of World Religions. Kazakh diplomacy was quite successful in gaining a positive assessment of country’s foreign policy on the international scene from the European Union and the OSCE. Behind these tempestuous activities, Kazakhstan’s own strained relations with its next-door neighbors, particularly with Uzbekistan, can hardly serve as a model of good-neighborly, not to speak of brotherly, relations.Visit also
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.