RUMSFELD AND THE CAUCASUS: AMERICA’S DEEPENING INVOLVEMENT IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS CONFLICTS
By Stephen Blank (9/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: U.S. interests in the South Caucasus include thanking both Georgia and Azerbaijan, the only Muslim country with forces in Iraq, for their support of the U.FLAWED ELECTIONS AND THE CONFLICT IN CHECHNYA
By Murad Batal al-Shishani (9/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: 47-year old Alu Alkhanov was Minister of Interior in Kadyrov’s government. A bureaucrat and former transport police chief, Alkhanov was, unlike Kadyrov, never an advocate of Chechnya’s independence. After Chechen fighters defeated the Russian forces in 1996, Alkhanov left Chechnya to work in the local police department of a small Russian village close to Ukraine.CASPIAN GAS: POTENTIAL TO ACTIVATE EUROPE IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
By Mamuka Tsereteli (8/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Europe’s natural gas demand is projected to increase substantially in the future. Even under conservative scenarios the demand for importing natural gas to the EU will double from 200 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year in 2002 to 400 bcm per annum by 2030, with total demand raising from 400 bcm to up to 600 bcm in the same period. Russia will try to fill this gap with its own gas, as well as with the gas from Turkmenistan, with the worlds third largest gas reserves, and potentially from Kazakhstan, if those countries do not have alternative delivery options by that time.PULLING BACK TROOPS, GEORGIA CALLS FOR EUROPEAN HELP
By Jaba Devdariani (8/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On August 19, in a first offensive military operation since the resumption of fire in South Ossetia, Georgian special forces captured the strategic heights from which Georgian villages were pounded during almost two weeks. Despite popular calls for a continued offensive, Georgian authorities decided to hand over the heights to the tripartite peacekeeping troops and withdraw the police and military detachments from South Ossetia. Simultaneously, President Saakashvili called upon the international community to assist in elaborating a new format of the peace process, which would allow for international presence during the political negotiations, and for increased international military monitoring on the ground.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.