Field Reports
A BIG SHOW? THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR IN SOUTH OSSETIA COMMENCES AMONG WIDESPREAD FEAR
By Theresa Freese (10/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
When Vanati Secondary School officially re-opened on 20 September, Georgian and Russian peacekeepers brandished Kalashnikovs outside the school to protect children against Beslan-type events. A Russian BMP-1 armored infantry combat vehicle, stood ominously in the school yard. Local residents garnished the BMP with roses, symbolic not only of their hopes for peace but of the failed Rose Revolution, which the Georgian government had wished to witness in South Ossetia.AFGHANISTAN CHOOSES NEW PRESIDENT AMID CONTROVERSY
By Daan van der Schriek (10/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The cold haze from a dust storm the night before that enveloped the streets of Kabul on Election Day at first kept voters away from the polling stations. But as the day grew warmer, and anticipated attacks by insurgents on voters and voting precincts did not occur, more and more people came to cast their ballots – and not just in Kabul. Reports said that all over the country, many people showed up to vote.BTC ENTERS THE FINAL STAGE AS AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA CONNECT THE PIPELINE AT THE BORDER
By Fariz Ismailzade (10/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The special representative of the US State Department for the Caspian region ambassador Steven Mann also took part in the event and said in his speech, “We knew that the pipeline project would be realized. Many people doubted the realization of the project. I hope they have changed their mind.IS KYRGYZSTAN’S RULING REGIME ON THE VERGE OF FAILURE?
By Aijan Baltabaeva (10/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. role in Kyrgyzstan is significant.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.