RUSSIAN ENERGY EXPANSION IN CAUCASUS: RISKS AND MITIGATION STRATEGY
By Mamuka Tsereteli (8/27/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On July 31, 2003 the U.S. power company AES Corp.RUSSO-SAUDI ROMANCE MAY MARGINALIZE THE CASPIAN
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.CENTRAL ASIAN BORDER TENSIONS: THE WORSENING KYRGYZ-UZBEK RELATIONS
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.THE ENDANGERED ALLIANCE: TURCO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND THE CAUCASUS
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.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.