Field Reports
EU AND GEORGIA TO START FREE TRADE TALKS
By Maka Gurgenidze (10/5/2011 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A joint declaration adopted on September 30 at the EU Eastern Partnership summit envisages the launch of negotiations on a deep and comprehensive trade agreement (DCFTA) between the EU and Georgia by the end of this year. The document was approved in Warsaw by the leaders of EU member states and five of the Eastern Partnership countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
MAY 26 VIOLENCE SETS NEW RULES IN GEORGIAN POLITICS
By Maka Gurgenidze (6/8/2011 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The dispersal of a protest rally turned violent at Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue on Georgia’s Independence Day. Riot police broke up an anti-government demonstration, led by former Parliamentary Speaker Nino Burjandze on May 26.
EXPLOSIONS IN KAZAKHSTAN UNDERMINE MYTH OF STABILITY
By Georgiy Voloshin (6/8/2011 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Though it is still too early to say whether Kazakhstan’s internal stability is at risk, national authorities are now investigating, with little success, two explosions that occurred on May 17 and 24 in Aktobe in Western Kazakhstan and Astana respectively. The first case involved a 25-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan, Rakhimzhan Makatov, who blew himself up in the temporary detention facility of the National Security Committee.
AZERBAIJAN RELEASES IMPRISONED JOURNALIST
By Mina Muradova (6/8/2011 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Just two days after Amnesty International launched its Twitter campaign to call for the release of the journalist and editor Eynulla Fatullayev, his name was included in a list of prisoners to be pardoned ahead of the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Human rights activists in Baku believe that the release of Fatullayev is connected with Azerbaijan’s victory in the Eurovision song contest two weeks ago and numerous subsequent calls to improve the country’s human rights record ahead of hosting the event next year.
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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.