Field Reports
AFGHANISTAN’S FLEDGING PRIVATE SECTOR ASKS FOR SUPPORT
By Daan van der Schriek (4/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The private sector in Afghanistan feels unhappy and unfairly treated, considering the huge amount of money that flowed into the country since the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001. It believes far too little of this money ended up with them.“It is the consensus among the private sector that with something in the order of $10 billion of non-military expenditures over the last three years, the impact on the Afghan economy has been less than it should be,” the Afghanistan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC) said in an April 3 press release.
AUTHORITARIAN REGIME IN KAZAKHSTAN GAINS “DEMOCRATIC” LAURELS AS OPPOSITION LOSES GROUND
By Marat Yermukanov (4/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
About a month ago, a group of opposition activists made public their intention to establish a new “Alga, Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan!” (“Forward, Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan!”) party. As the name suggests, the new political organization was conceived as the successor of the once-popular Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DCK) party banned on January 6 this year by an Almaty specialized economic court on charges of calling people to overthrow the present regime during a rally. The founders of the party who signed a statement declaring in broad terms the protection of civic rights of all citizens of Kazakhstan as the main objective pursued by the new political organization did not specify whether the renewed party has something different from the old Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan’s political line in its program, or if it is just a name-change.VERBAL ATTACKS ON U.S. AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHT PRE-ELECTION TENSIONS IN AZERBAIJAN
By Anar Kerimov (4/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
\"Ambassador Harnish is overstepping his responsibilities and interfering into Azerbaijan\'s domestic affairs,\" said Member of Parliament Zahid Oruj, member of the pro-governmental Ana Veten (Motherland) party. Others, such as Musa Musayev, have called on the ambassador to explain why he was meeting with the opposition and not the ruling party. The Parliament session coincided with the visit of the opposition Musavat Party’s leader Isa Gambar to the United States.AFGHANISTAN’S MEDIA UNDER PRESSURE
By Daan van der Schriek (4/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Newspapers, magazines and to a lesser extent also radio and television stations flourish in Afghanistan. More than 150 publications have appeared in Kabul alone. And many of them are independent.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.