THE UNOCAL-CNOOC-CHEVRON TRIANGLE DRAMA: BUSINESS AS USUAL OR POLITICAL DOMINATION?
By Niklas Swanström (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Chevron is seven times larger than CNOOC, but as CNOOC is a state-owned enterprise, it has the backing of China’s foreign currency reserve, dwarfing Chevron’s economic turnover and for that matter the economic value of all US oil companies together. It has been noted in the U.S.GEORGIA’S POLITICS REMAIN CRISIS-PRONE
By Blanka Hancilova (7/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The opposition and the ruling party representatives engaged in a fist-fight in the parliament on July 1. This confrontation followed the overnight riots which broke out in a courtroom as the Tbilisi City court decided on three-month pre-trial detention of two wrestling champions detained on extortion charges. The riot police broke up the rally after protesting friends and relatives blocked the main thoroughfare of the city, Rustaveli Avenue.ATTEMPTS AT RE-PRIVATIZATION FOLLOW KYRGYZ REVOLUTION
By Zoya Pylenko (7/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: A recent International Crisis Group Report termed the March events in Kyrgyzstan as “less a revolution than a process of state collapse”. And this situation of lawlessness and anarchy creates perfect conditions for people to illegally seize property. The most advertised of such incidents was the capture of a coalmine in Kara-Keche, in the Naryn region of central Kyrgyzstan, by workers of the enterprise.INDIA’S CONTINUING QUEST FOR CENTRAL ASIAN ENERGY
By Stephen Blank (7/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In Pakistan’s case, President Pervez Musharraf has said, “We are short of energy. We want gas immediately. Our industry is suffering; investment coming to Pakistan is suffering, so Pakistan’s interest is to get gas fast.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.