THE REHABILITATION OF “GREAT RUSSIAN CHAUVINISM”: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NORTH CAUCASUS
By Kevin Daniel Leahy (7/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: During his time as president, Boris Yeltsin pursued a distinctly asymmetrical policy toward Russia’s regions. This often entailed making compromises with certain regional leaders which might have seemed quite gratuitous when it came to dealing with other, less entrenched local elites. His successor, Vladimir Putin, has proven far less flexible in this regard, and clearly disapproves of the loose tactical bargaining which characterised Yeltsin’s tenure.PAKISTAN’S BID FOR SCO MEMBERSHIP: PROSPECTS AND PITFALLS
By Rizwan Zeb (7/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was created in June 2001, comprising China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Pakistan was the first country to apply for the status of \'Observer\' in the SCO. However, Pakistan\'s entry was blocked because of its Afghan policy.BEYOND AFGHANISTAN: THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN BASES IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Stephen Blank (7/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The recent announcement that the U.S. base will be able to stay at Manas in Kyrgyzstan ends a chapter, but by no means the whole story, in the saga of U.TURKMENISTAN ACCUSES EUROPE OF SUBERSIVE ACTIVITIES
By Hooman Peimani (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Turkmenistan has made a reputation for its intolerance of dissent in any form since its independence. Many political dissidents have been imprisoned for their opposition to President Niyazov’s administration on charges such as “subversive activities” or “espionage”, while many have left the country to escape persecution. Thanks to years of suppression, the elimination of any significant political dissent has turned the Turkmen authorities’ attention to human rights activists and NGO workers, especially since Georgia’s Rose Revolution followed by Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and the March 2005 upheaval in Kyrgyzstan.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.