Field Reports
FAKE WAR – REAL CONSEQUENCES?
By Jenny Söderström (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 13 March the Georgian television audience was – unknowingly – subjected to what can be described as a large-scale socio-psychological experiment. In a special edition of its prime-time news bulletin, one of Georgia’s bigger TV channels, Imedi, broadcasted a mock report of a Russian invasion of the country. An announcement before the show explained that a fictive ‘special report’ would follow, illustrating a worst-case scenario of how the situation in the country could develop, if Georgian society does not unite against Russia.
NO BREAKTHROUGH IN KARABAKH TALKS
By Haroutiun Khachatrian (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The latest meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in Sochi on January 25 was marked by some progress in agreeing on the Basic principles for the settlement of the Nagorno–Karabakh conflict, giving rise to certain expectations of further rapprochement. In particular, it was reported that during the meeting in Sochi, which was organized by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan reached an agreement on the preamble of the Basic principles of a settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh. It was also reported that shortly before the Sochi meeting, an amended version of the Madrid principles of the Karabakh settlement were presented by the mediators (the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group, the U.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CONCERNED OVER HUMAN RIGHTS IN GEORGIA
By Maka Gurgenidze (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. State Department’s 2009 Human Rights Report expresses concern over cases of human rights violations and the state of media freedom in Georgia, while it also notes positive steps taken by the government towards continued democratic development in the country.
U.S. AIRBASE LIKELY TO STAY IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Joldosh Osmonov (3/31/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
As the one-year agreement on the U.S. airbase at Manas is at the point of renewal, recent visits of high-ranking U.
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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.