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By Hooman Peimani (12/19/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: The establishment of a broad-based and widely-acceptable Afghan government, requires a consensus among all the major ethnic and political groups to end the civil war and to ensure stability in Afghanistan. It also requires the cooperation of external states that have backed rival Afghan groups over the last two decades. Their pursuit of conflicting interests contributed to the prolongation of civil war.

Wednesday, 19 December 2001

CENTRAL ASIA: IMAGINARY AND REAL BORDERS

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By Anara Tabyshalieva (12/19/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Vladimir Lenin in his letter to the Communists of Turkestan in 1920 asked them to investigate how many states should be there and what they should be named. 80 years ago, the idea of sovereign and independent ethnic-based states was alien and exotic for the locals. The concepts on the division of Turkestan were vague.

Wednesday, 19 December 2001

RUSSIA IN THE GREAT ANTI-TERRORIST GAME

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By Pavel Baev (12/19/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: While planning the next move in Afghanistan, strategists in Putin’s team are looking not in the manuals on conflict resolution but rather in the records of Russia’s operations in the region, which go far deeper than the Soviet invasion of 1979. In fact, Russia has been constantly engaged in the Caspian area for nearly three centuries, since the troops of Peter the Great invaded Baku in 1722. All other players, including Great Britain, had to quit the game at some stage, but Russia’s uninterrupted history of engagement has continued through two major upheavals in 1917 and 1991.

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By Stephen Blank (1/16/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: The attacks on America and the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud in September, 2001 have led to a paradox whereby American presence in Central Asia and the broader Muslim world has grown.  Indeed, U.S.

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