Field Reports
KAZAKHSTAN CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF ITS INDEPENDENCE
By Marat Yermukanov, Kazakhstan (12/19/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Many foreign analysts believe, and not without reason, that Kazakhstan is one of the most politically and economically advanced countries in Central Asia. The tenth anniversary of the Independance day, marked on December 16, gives good cause to Kazakhstan’s citizens to look back to what has been achieved in post-communist years.
Even the irreconcilable opponents of the reforms cannot deny the economic progress made in ten years of independence.
FOREIGN LECTURERS FLED KYRGYZSTAN, BUT ARE NOW RETURNING
By Maria Utyaganova, student, American University in Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek (12/19/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Before the September 11 tragedy, no one in Central Asia would think that their region would ever become the center of attention of the entire world. Rumors and fears about the start of large-scale war, and Central Asia being the battle ground for it, were rapidly spreading among the population. The feelings of stress and shock deepened when on September 21, the U.
KYRGYZSTAN HOLDS LOCAL ELECTIONS
By Gulzina Karim kyzy (1/16/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The elections to the posts of Head of Village and to town administrations were held in Kyrgyzstan on December 16 and 23. International observers from OSCE, and the American, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarus and Kazakh embassies as well as a number of international organizations took an active part in monitoring the elections.
Local elections were first proposed by President Askar Akayev in an address to the public on December 12, 2000.
US SENATORS VISIT TAJIKISTAN, A FORMER HOTBED OF EXTREMISM
By Alexei Igushev (1/16/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan has been ignored by the world community, even during the course of a bloody five-year civil war in the mid 1990s. But it has now become visible in the world arena. Against the background of the current anti-terrorist operation, Western media have started discovering that the post-Soviet Republic of Tajikistan provides a great deal of insight into what has led to a globally significant tragedy.
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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.
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.