Field Reports
PAKISTAN`S FOREIGN POLICY: REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS
By Dr. Zahid Anwar, Assistant Professor, Area Study Centre, University of Peshawar
(8/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The main theme of the first session was the Change of Pakistan’s Afghan Policy and its Regional Implications. Najmuddin A. Shiekh, former secretary of foreign affairs (Pakistan) spoke on, “The current Pak-India impasse: prospect for an early resolution”.OVERCOMING CORRUPTION IN KYRGYZSTAN’S EDUCATION SECTOR
By Maria Utyaganova (8/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The procedure of awarding high school graduates with gold medals, that provides chances to get government-paid seats at the university without examinations, was often subjective and fraught with corruption. At many occasions, gold medals were awarded to those students whose parents paid money, but not to those who studied hard. Such a practice left many bright students from less well-off families without an opportunity to get higher education, as their parents could not pay university tuition fees.OIL-RUSH FUELS CONTROVERSIES IN KAZAKHSTAN
By Marat Yermukanov (8/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The completion of the second phase of the oil complex construction in Karachaganak fields significantly increases the oil export capacity of the country, putting the annual production of hydrocarbons at 8 million tons. Karachaganak is just one of the more than two hundred oil and gas deposits discovered in Kazakhstan. The final agreement to develop Karachaganak on product-sharing basis was reached between BG-Group, Italian ENI, Chevron-Texaco, Russian Lukoil consortium and Kazakh government in 1997.KAZAKHSTAN PUTS DEMOCRATIC GLOSS ON LOCAL ELECTIONS
By Marat Yermukanov (7/30/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In the course of their endless talks with OSCE delegations over the last four years, Kazakh officials have repeatedly pledged to update the electoral regulations of the country. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, mildly but insistently, pointed out the most salient procedural flaws and violations of voters’ rights reported by independent observers from regions during 1999 elections. They ranged from unwarranted interference of local authorities in electoral process to the falsification of voting results.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.