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New Policy Papers: S. Frederick Starr, In Defense of Greater Central Asia, September 2008; Svante E. Cornell, Johanna Popjanevski, Niklas Nilsson Russia’s War in Georgia: Causes and Implications for Georgia and the World, August 2008.

Turkey Analyst September 26, 2008, issue is online. Click here for entire issue in PDF format.

Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst September 17, 2008, is online. Click here for entire issue in PDF format.

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POLICY PAPER S. Frederick Starr, In Defense of Greater Central Asia, September 2008.

BOOK Anna Jonsson (ed), Human Trafficking and Human Security, (London: Routledge 2008)

ANALYSIS Niklas Swanström "Georgia: The Split that Split the SCO" CACI Analyst, September 3, 2008

OP-ED Svante Cornell "L'avenir de l'Europe se joue dans le Caucase", Le Monde, September 1, 2008

POLICY PAPER Svante E. Cornell, Johanna Popjanevski, Niklas Nilsson "Russia’s War in Georgia: Causes and Implications for Georgia and the World", August 2008.

OP-ED Svante Cornell, "Uteslut Ryssland ur Europarådet" (Expel Russia from the Council of Europe) Expressen, August 13, 2008

OP-ED Svante Cornell, "Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Differences Matter" New York Times, August 12, 2008

OP-ED Svante Cornell, "Russia Blames the Victim" The New York Times, August 11, 2008 

OP-ED Svante Cornell, "The war that Russia wants", The Guardian, August 08, 2008.

BOOK Niklas Swanström (Ed.) "Asia 2018-2028: Development Scenarios" (Stockholm: ISDP, 2008).

BOOK CHAPTER   Svante E. Cornell & Anna Jonsson, "Expanding the European Area of Stability and Democracy to the Wider Black Sea Region", in Daniel Hamilton & Gerhard Mangott (eds) The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century, (Washington DC, Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS, 2008)

BOOK CHAPTER Nicklas Norling, Ingolf Kiesow, Svante Cornell, and Karlis Neretnieks, "Southwest Asia [Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan] 2018-2028," in Niklas Swanström Ed. Asia 2018-2028: Development Scenarios (Stockholm: ISDP, 2008), 110-151.

SILK ROAD PAPER Richard Weitz, Kazakhstan and the New International Politics of Eurasia, July 2008.

BOOK CHAPTER   Anna Jonsson, "Legal Responses to Human Trafficking for Sexual Purposes in the Baltic Sea Region", in Åke Frändberg et al (eds) Festskrift till Anders Fogelklou, (Uppsala: Iustus, 2008) 

BOOK CHAPTER Nicklas Norling, "Domestic consequences in Iran," in John Rydkvist and Kristina Zetterlund Ed. Consequences of Military Actions against Iran (Stockholm: Swedish Defense Research Agency, 2008)

ARTICLE Niklas Nilsson ”EU and Russia in the Black Sea Region: Increasingly Competing Interests?”, Romanian Journal of European Affairs, vol. 8, No. 2, June 2008 

POLICY BRIEF Ron Asmus, Svante Cornell, Antje Herrberg, Nicu Popescu, "Internationalizing the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict Resolution Process: Why a greater European Role is Needed", German Marshall Fund Policy Brief, June 2008.

ARTICLE Svante E. Cornell, "La Approximación de Estados Unidos a las Cuestiones Energéticas y de Seguridad en Eurasia" [US Policy in Energy and Security in Eurasia], in Alex Gonzalez & Carmen Claudin, eds., Asia Central y la Seguridad Energética Global, Barcelona: Fundacio CIDOB, 2008.

ARTICLE Nicklas Norling and Niklas Nilsson, "EU-GUAM: Engagement or Estrangement?" Central Asia and Caucasus, No. 3, (51-52), 2008. 

ANALYSIS Nicklas Norling, "The Emerging China-Afghanistan Relationship," CACI Analyst, May 14, 2008.

POLICY PAPER Niklas Nilsson and Svante E. Cornell, Georgia's May 2008 Parliamentary Elections: Setting Sail in A Storm, May 2008.

SILK ROAD PAPER Anthony Clive Bowyer, Parliament and Political Parties in Kazakhstan, April 2008.

SILK ROAD PAPER Marlene Laruelle, Russia's Central Asia Policy and the Role of Russian Nationalism, April 2008.  

OP-ED Svante E. Cornell & Niklas Nilsson, ”Rysslands hot växer” [Escalating Russian Threats], Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 23 april 2008.

ANALYSIS Niklas Nilsson, “Tbilisi Withdraws from the Joint Control Commission; Proposes New Format for South Ossetia”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, March 19, 2008.

ARTICLE Michael Jonsson and Svante E. Cornell, "Examining PKK Financing", Jane's Intelligence Review, March 2008.

SILK ROAD PAPER Mamuka Tsereteli, Economic and Energy Security: Connecting Europe and the Black Sea-Caspian Region, March 2008.

SILK ROAD PAPER John C.K. Daly, Kazakhstan's Emerging Middle Class, March 2008.

BOOK Svante E. Cornell & Niklas Nilsson, eds., Europe's Energy Security: Gazprom's Dominance and Caspian Supply Alternatives, CACI & SRSP, February 2008.

ANALYSIS Erica Marat, "The Changing Dynamics of State-Crime Relations in Kyrgyzstan", Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 20 February 2008.

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