THE KURSK EXPLOSION: A RESULT OF DAGESTANI SABOTAGE?
By Dr. John C. K. Daly (10/25/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Kursk disappeared on 12 August during a Northern Fleet training exercise. The last message sent by the Kursk was a request to proceed with a training torpedo launch. A week later in an announcement made on 19 August, the Dagestani Shura claimed that Dagestani martyrs had sunk the Kursk with a torpedo explosion.
THE ISLAND OF AUTOCRACY?
By Gulsara Osorova (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS OF ARAL SEA DESICCATION Dr. John C.
CENTRAL ASIA’S DEEPENING EAST ASIAN RELATIONS
By Professor Stephen Blank (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Most writing on international geopolitical rivalries in and around Central Asia focus on Russo-American competition. A growing literature also assesses Iranian, Chinese, and Turkish activities there. But there is also a visibly growing involvement of other major Asian states, not just in realizing a defense and security agenda, but also in the funding and development of major energy and infrastructure projects.
UZBEKISTAN'S FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS DOMESTIC EFFECTS
By Dr. Robert M. Cutler (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Tashkent's attempts to attract foreign investment in the early 1990s were mostly unsuccessful. Western economic interest rose only in the middle of the decade. However, privatization was still largely limited to sell-offs of large state firms to foreign buyers, and to contract-signings with the largest Western companies for investment in the metallurgical and machine-building sectors.
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