IRANIAN NUCLEARIZATION AND CENTRAL ASIA
By Dr. Stephen Blank (8/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In early 2000, the CIA reported it could not guarantee that Iran did not have a nuclear capability. Subsequent testimony by CIA director, George Tenet emphasized that within a decade Iran would have a functioning nuclear weapon. Likewise, the CINC of USCENTCOM, General Anthony Zinni, stated that Iran would have a nuclear weapon and delivery system by 2005.
U.S. POLICY IN ‘CASPIAN-ASIAN’: THE IMPERATIVES OF STRATEGIC VISION
By Dr. Svante E. Cornell (8/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The instability of the Caspian-Asian region, matters profoundly to the west and to the U.S. for several reasons.
SHAMIL BASEYEV, CHECHEN FIELD COMMANDER: RUSSIA’S MOST WANTED MAN
By Dr. Brian Williams (8/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Shamil Basayev began his career as a fighter in 1992 when he joined the secessionist Abkhaz fighting for independence against the majority Georgians. Basayev's "Abkhaz Battalion" was responsible for the subsequent Abkhaz defeat of the Georgians. When the Russians invaded Chechnya in 1994, Basayev played a key role in the Chechen fighters destruction of Russian forces in Grozny on New Years Eve 1994-5.
KYRGYZSTAN’S OPPOSITION LEADER FELIKS KULOV FINALLY RELEASED
By Gulsara Osorova (8/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The March 2000 parliamentary elections shifted the image of Kyrgyzstan from an "island of democracy" that was supposed to guarantee the freedom of speech and basic norms of human rights, to a powerful image of a strengthening authoritarian regime. Feliks Kulov, the politically disgraced vice-president and former mayor of Bishkek, resigned his office in 1998 to join the political opposition. Kulov resigned his office and quit his political party over conflicts he had with President Askar Akaev and his politics.
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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.