Field Reports
OPPONENTS OF BAKU-TBILISI-CEYHAN PROJECT REACTIVED
By Gulnara Ismailova (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Once finalized, the pipeline will carry one million barrels of oil per day, implying ca. 1,3 % of the global deliveries of oil. By means of BTC, some estimates note that 25% of the growth of demand of oil in the world in one year will be provided.WITH ALL ROADS TO TSKHINVALI CLOSED, CONFLICT ZONE RESIDENTS PRAY FOR SAAKASHVILI AND PEACE
By Theresa Freese (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A situation previously described as “tense” escalated after a Georgian resident was slightly wounded while Ossetian forces were conducting an exercise on military training grounds in Prisi village. In response, Irakli Okruashvili, Georgian Interior Minister, issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Ossetian authorities demanding that the responsible individual be arrested. Otherwise, Georgian authorities would deal with the situation.THE KARABAKH LIBERATION ORGANIZATION PROTESTS THE VISIT OF ARMENIAN OFFICERS
By Fariz Ismailzade (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This week police and demonstrators once again clashed in the streets of Baku. The cause of these clashes was the arrival of two Armenian officers in Baku to participate in a NATO conference. Several dozens of members of the Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) stormed the \"Europe\" hotel, where the conference was taking place and attempted to psychically remove the Armenian officers from there.BORDER INCIDENTS SOUR KAZAKH-UZBEK RELATIONS
By Marat Yermukanov (6/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The incident occurred on June 1 at the border crossing near Saryagash district in South Kazakhstan region. 27-year old Nurzhigit Potanov, resident of the Kazygurt district, according to accounts given by Kazakh border guards, traveled in a hired car to neighboring Mayaul village in Uzbekistan to get his intended bride, a citizen of Uzbekistan, for their wedding ceremony. At the check-point his car was stopped by Uzbek border guards who took the ignition key from the driver and kept the car detained for unknown reasons.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.