EUROPE REMAINS AMBIGUOUS IN ITS SOUTH CAUCASUS NEIGHBORHOOD
By Jaba Devdariani (7/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The European Parliament recommended the inclusion of the South Caucasus in the ENP in December 2003, while the European Commission (EC) endorsed this view in its May 2004 strategy paper on ENP. The inclusion was formally approved in June 2004. The decisions were recommended by the EU Special Representative in South Caucasus, a position established by the EU to boost its foreign policy role in the region.IS NATO FAILING IN AFGHANISTAN?
By Stephen Blank (7/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In his speech, de Hoop Scheffer blamed Washington’s unilateralism and disdain for NATO after September 11. But in reality there is more than enough blame to go around. France, after all, was the government that vetoed any major commitment to either Afghanistan or Iraq.CENTRAL ASIAN STATES INCREASE ENERGY SWAP DEALS WITH IRAN
By Hooman Peimani (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Concerned about the political, economic and security consequences of their over-reliance on the Russian and Azerbaijani-Georgian export routes through which they started to export oil in the 1990s, the two Caspian states of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan began their swap deals with Iran in the mid-1990s. Having small oil exports, Uzbekistan followed suit for the same considerations. As the American sanctions on Iran ensured a lack of funding for major pipeline projects to connect their oil resources to Iran’s Persian Gulf oil terminals, the three Central Asian oil exporters had to confine their exports via Iran to a portion of their annual exports, which could be handled through swap deals with Iran without antagonizing Washington.UZBEKISTAN SAYS IT WILL FINALLY PUT ENERGY MONOPOLY UP FOR TENDER
By Peter Laurens (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Several private as well as official commentators have divided Uzbekistan’s privatization history into three stages. The first stage was part of the initial program of macroeconomic reforms in the early 1990s and concentrated on the privatization of housing and small businesses in food, trade and construction. The second stage laid the basis for real estate and stock market transactions.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.