By Mamuka Tsereteli (8/27/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On July 31, 2003 the U.S. power company AES Corp.By Ariel Cohen (9/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The apparent rapprochement between Russia and Saudi Arabia during Crown Prince Abdullah’s visit to Moscow is likely to have large implications for global energy markets, and especially for Caspian producers. There are significant forces which push Saudi Arabia and Russia into each other’s embrace. Oil, weapons and geopolitics drive their newly found common agenda.By Gulzina Karim kyzy (8/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: As the countries of Central Asia gained independence in 1991, areas that had constituted a single economic, social and political system were divided from one another. Boundaries that were of little importance acquired a lot more significance having a striking influence on ordinary lives. One such area is the Ferghana Valley, a multiethnic area unified by common history, culture, social and economic networks, but now spanning parts of three countries – Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.By Stephen Blank (8/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: It is well known that the Turkish government failed to have the U.S. request for assistance and for the right to station U.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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