Field Reports
THE WATER PROBLEM IN CENTRAL ASIA: IS THERE A SOLUTION?
By Shairbek Juraev, American University in Kyrgyzstan (7/4/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
With the arrival of summer, the problem of water for irrigation is becomes increasingly urgent in the Central Asian republics. With their considerable cultivated lands, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are looking at a substantial water shortage this summer. By producing electricity this past winter, Kyrgyzstan delivered considerable amounts of water to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in non-irrigation season from its reservoirs.
NEW SPLASH OF MIGRATION OF THE KYRGYZ POPULATION
By Nadezhda Romanchuk and Nasiba Hudaibergenova, students at the department of International and Compar (7/4/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An unprecedented outbreak of migration from Kyrgyzstan started in the early 1990s, after the republic gained its independence. The growth of social and economic problems, and regional conflicts in nearby states such as Tajikistan and Afghanistan, are leading to intensification of destructive migration processes. The migration-related yearly decrease in population reached its peak in 1993, when it was estimated at 121 thousand people.
HOSTAGE-TAKING AND UNREST IN EASTERN TAJIKISTAN
By Alexei Igushev (7/4/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 22 June, at 4 a.m. detachments of the Tajik Ministry of Interior together with other law enforcement military units started an operation on annihilation of illicit armed groups of Rakhmon Sanginov.
SHANGHAI: PROVIDING STABILITY TO CENTRAL ASIA?
By Maria Utyaganova, student, International Relations Department, American University in Kyrgyzstan, Bi (7/4/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Chinese city of Shanghai was chosen to be the place where the anniversary summit of the Shanghai Five country-members was held on June 14-15, 2001. The main agenda of the meeting was to exchange opinions on important issues in international politics, discuss the future development of the relationships between member-countries’ within the framework of the new Shanghai Organization for Cooperation, and sign a number of documents, one of which was about Uzbekistan’s accession to the organization.
Since April 1996, the presidents of Russia, China, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan get together every year to speak about regional and world problems and find solutions to them.
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Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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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.