News Digest
PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN ILHAM ALIYEV: ARMENIA IS NOW ISOLATED FROM ALL THE INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
By empty (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
“Despite all Armenians’ efforts to hamper realization of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, I am convinced that we will realize this project. Indeed, the Armenian lobby is striving for some organizations, international structures not to support this project”, said President Ilham Aliyev in an interview to Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. The President said “our current situation allows us to be independent of other organizations.TAJIKISTAN BEGINS REBUILDING HIGHWAY TO UZBEKISTAN
By empty (7/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan officially launched the reconstruction of the Dushanbe-Chanak highway on Tuesday, a project estimated to cost some $296 millions. Tajikistan\'s President Emomali Rakhmonov took part in the launching ceremony. \"The highway will make it possible to develop our economy rapidly, in particular, the industry, and it will also take our country out of a communication blind alley,\" he said in the village of Varzob, 15 kilometers from Dushanbe.AFGHANISTAN’S UNRULY PROVINCE
By empty (7/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Afghanistan\'s southern province of Helmand is fast turning out to be one of the country\'s most dangerous, with almost daily clashes between militants and foreign and Afghan troops. More than 3,000 British troops have been deployed there since May, as part of a strengthened Nato force in the south aimed at tackling the twin threats of a resurgent Taleban and the country\'s drug trade. Helmand, with rocky mountains in the north and desert in the south, shares an open border with Pakistan and is said to produce nearly 20% of Afghanistan\'s opium crop.NO PLANS TO INCREASE U.S. MILITARY CONTINGENT IN AFGHANISTAN – RUMSFELD
By empty (7/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has denied the existence of plans to enlarge the U.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.