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New: 2008 CACI Regional Fellows Announced. Click here to view the winners. CACI is also accepting applications for the next term of the Young Leaders Fellowship Program, which CACI is sponsoring for junior U.S. scholars interested in topics related to Central Asia, the Caucasus and Afghanistan. Click here to learn more.

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.

The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly's May 2008 issue is online. Click here for entire issue in PDF format.

The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program form a joint transatlantic research and policy center. The Joint Center has offices in Washington and Stockholm, and is affiliated with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Security and Development Policy. It is the first Center of its kind, and is today firmly established as a leading center for research and policy worldwide, serving a large and diverse community of analysts, scholars, policy-watchers, business leaders and journalists. See the Mission link on the left menu bar for more information. For ISDP's Asia Program, previously featured on this website, please click here.

 


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.

PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS


September 24
CACI Forum "A Report on the 'EU-Central Asia Security Forum' Just Held in Paris", with Hon. Pierre Morel. Click here to download an audio for this event.

September 17
CACI Forum "Policy Recommendations for the United States and the EU regarding South Caucasus: Georgia and Beyond", with Dr. Svante Cornell and Col. Jon Chicky. Click here to download an audio for this event.

August 18
Silk Road Forum "Russia’s War in Georgia: The Buildup, Course of Events, and Aftermath" with His Excellency Mr. Amiran Kavadze (Ambassador of Georgia to Sweden), Dr. Svante E. Cornell (ISDP),Robert L. Larsson (FOI), Johanna Popjanevski (ISDP), and Niklas Nilsson (ISDP).

July 16
CACI Forum "Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi", with Richard Pomfret.

July 9
CACI Forum "Kazakhstan in Its Neighborhood", with Richard Weitz. Audio and Summary now available.

June 5
Silk Road Forum "Commonalities Between Russia, Prussia and South Africa: Eurasian Economic Integration in Comparative Perspective", with Dr. Kathleen Hancock, Stockholm.

June 5
Silk Road Forum "Pakistan’s War Against Global Terrorism: the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)" with Dr. Maqsud H. Nuri, Stockholm.

June 4
CACI Forum "WTO Accession: Kazakhstan's Prospects, Kyrgyzstan's Reality", with Zhanar Aitzhanova, Erlan Idrissov, and William Veale. Summary and audio online.

May 22
CACI Forum "New Developments in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization", with Dr. Pan Guang. Event audio and summary online.

May 21
CACI Forum "Renewable Energy in Uzbekistan: A Key to Future Development?", co-organized with the America-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce. Event audio and Summary online.

April 30
CACI Forum "Parliament and Political Parties in Kazakhstan", with Anthony Clive Bowyer, IFES.

April 23
CACI Forum "Russian Nationalism and Central Asia", with Dr. Marlene Laruelle, Senior Fellow, CACI. Summary online.

April 22
CACI Forum "Recent Russian Policies in Georgia: How Should the West Respond?" with H.E. Mr. David Bakradze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia; Mr. Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Mr. Vladimir Socor; and Svante E. Cornell. Audio and summary online.

March 26
CACI Forum "Fergana Valley: a microcosm of problems and potential in the region", with Pulat Shozimov.

March 12
CACI Forum "From Illicit to Licit Livelihoods: Understanding the Changing Role of Opium in Rural Livelihoods in Afghanistan and One Possible Alternative Crop", with David Mansfield and Keith Disselkoen, Washington DC.(off the record)

March 5
CACI Forum "Kazakhstan's Emerging Middle Class" ,with John C.K. Daly, Washington DC. Event Summary and audio now available.

February 13
CACI Forum "Gwadar Sea Port, A New Transportation Hub for Central Asia", with H.E. Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S. Audio of event online.

February 7
CACI Forum "White Collar Islamists" with Martha Brill Olcott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Audio of event and summary now online.

CACI Forum "Pakistan's and Central Asia: Post-Bhutto Implications", with Senator Dr. Javaid Laghari, Pakistan. Audio of event now online.

January 22
CACI Forum "Directions in Language Policy and Practice in Central Asia and South Caucasus", with William Fierman and Dan E. Davidson. Forum summary and audio now online

January 8
CACI Forum "CAREC: A Coming Force in Regional Affairs?" with Johannes Linn, Brookings Institution Wolfensohn Center. Forum summary and audio now online.

December 12
CACI Forum "Kyrgyzstan's South: Zone of Problem or Potential?", with Anthony Bowyer, Eric McGlinchey, and Scott Radnitz. Listen to audio of event here.

December 10

Conference The Azerbaijan-Turkey-US Relationship and Its Importance for Eurasia, Washington DC.

December 6
CACI Forum"Georgia’s Crisis: what’s behind it and where to go from here?", with Vladimir Socor and Svante Cornell. Listen to Audio of event here.

November 19
CACI Forum "Does Turkey Have a Future in Central Asia and the Caucasus?" with Zeyno Baran and Svante Cornell. Summary now online.



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