CHINA’S ‘PEACEFUL RISE’ IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Stephen Blank (4/23/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The global financial crisis has not left China unscathed, but its recent actions in and around Central Asia show that it has the means to turn the crisis to its advantage. Thus China’s “peaceful rise” is giving it hitherto undreamt of opportunities to secure strong commercial and economic linkages to Central Asian states and energy holdings. Neither is this program of action confined to Central Asia.
SCARY STATISTICS: THE STATE OF SCHOOLS IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Anvar Rahmetov (4/23/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
SCARY STATISTICS: THE STATE OF SCHOOLS IN KYRGYZSTAN
Anvar Rahmetov
Kyrgyz school education is in a catastrophic situation. The reading skills of 74 percent of fifteen-year old Kyrgyzstanis are below basic (“pass”) level. Math and sciences results are even worse – failing students constitute 84 percent and 82 percent respectively.
MOSCOW AND ASHGABAT FAIL TO AGREE OVER THE CASPIAN COASTAL PIPELINE
By Robert M. Cutler (4/8/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The leaders of Russia and Turkmenistan have been unable to agree on terms for the (re)construction of a Soviet-era gas pipeline in western Turkmenistan. While subsequent negotiations are not excluded, Ashgabat has declared its intent to allow companies other than Gazprom, including Western companies, to bid for the work. In the context of recent developments, a pattern begins to form that may signify the breaking of what is left of Russia’s hold on Central Asian gas transport, to which its relationship with Turkmenistan has been central in the post-Soviet era.
FIRE OVER WATER IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Umida Hashimova (4/8/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The common Soviet plan for regional water and energy sharing, exchange and management disappeared with the independence of individual republics. The break up of the Soviet Union divided the Central Asian countries into those controlling water upstream and those that depended on them downstream. So far, failure to agree on the distribution of water among these states has resulted in exerting political and economic pressure on one another, sometimes to situations almost escalating into interstate armed conflict.
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