FOREIGN POLICY RE-ORIENTATION & POLITICAL SYMBOLISM IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Yaşar Sarı & Süreyya Yiğit (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The past couple of months have seen increased activity in Kyrgyz foreign policy. In April, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev visited Moscow on his first official state visit. It was also in April that the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry issued a statement declaring that the rent paid for the Manas Ganci air base used by the United States needed to be renegotiated.SPAT WITH RUSSIA HAS SAAKASHVILI NARROWING DOWN PRIORITIES
By Jaba Devdariani (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Saakashvili administration has set itself an ambitious agenda. Its priorities include changing the format of the Russian-dominated peacekeeping operations in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, setting the country firmly on a course towards NATO and the EU, and rectifying Georgia’s decrepit infrastructure and economy. Now, the Georgian leadership finds that all of these priorities are impossible to pursue simultaneously.UZBEK PRESIDENT KARIMOV VISITS PAKISTAN
By Asma Shakir Khwaja (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Uzbekistan were established on May 10, 1992, and as a result Pakistan established its embassy in Tashkent in June 1992. Pakistan had an early interest, sending a 23-member delegation to Uzbekistan in December 1991. Relations have not been unproblematic, though.KAZAKHSTAN BUILDS PARTNERSHIP WITH GERMANY
By Roger N McDermott (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev has designated Germany as the country’s leading partner in Europe. During talks in Berlin on May 18, he noted the depth of shared interests and perspectives between Germany and Kazakhstan. “Kazakhstan considers Germany its key partner in Europe.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.