Field Reports
SAFAROV’S CASE MIRRORS AZERBAIJANI-ARMENIAN RELATIONS
By Fariz Ismailzade (4/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The decision was immediately labeled in Baku as biased and unfair. Surely, there were no doubts that Safarov was the one who committed the murder (as he himself admitted) and few doubted that he would be found guilty. Yet Azerbaijanis also hoped that the judge would take into consideration such factors as Safarov’s personal background as a refugee from the occupied Azerbaijani areas, the provocations from the side of Armenian officers during the language classes and his modest behavior during the course of investigation.TAJIKISTAN MULLS NEW NGO, RELIGIOUS LAWS
By Zoya Pylenko (4/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 2 December, the Tajik government adopted a new draft law on public organizations, which is currently debated in parliament, and which will also affect the activities of NGOs. Tajik analysts believe the proposed law is, mostly, a sign of the authorities’ concern about what they believe are political activities of NGOs, who are often dependent on foreign donor funding. Such fears would have been greatly increased after last year’s upheavals in neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS FROM POST-SOVIET STATES IN EUROPE: COMMUNITY BUILDING ALONG RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES
By Erica Marat and Emin Poljarevic (4/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Upon arrival to Europe, many Muslim immigrants from the post-Soviet states use their newly won freedom of expression and association for joining religious communities. The immigrant communities return to their theological foundations that were suffocated during the Soviet rule. However, this return goes beyond the pre-Soviet practice of Islamic belief and takes more non-traditional forms in the European context.KAZAKHSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN MOVE FROM RIVALRY TO COOPERATION
By Marat Yermukanov (4/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
After his inauguration ceremony, the re-elected Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev was constantly shuttling between Tashkent and Moscow. The timing of the trip to Uzbekistan could not be better. Islam Karimov, deeply disillusioned with the Americans and rebuked by the West for the Andijon debacle, desperately seeks the renewal of ties with Moscow and Astana.Visit also
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.