New Books/Papers Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, eds., The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia
New York: M.E.Sharpe, 2009

Turkey Analyst June 19, 2009, issue is online. Click here for entire issue in PDF format.

The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly has launched a new website. Click here to access www.chinaeurasia.org. The February issue focuses on Central Asian Perceptions of China. Click here for entire issue in PDF format.

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

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ANALYSIS Nicklas Norling, "Is Russia Stirring Unrest in Central Asia?" CACI Analyst, July 1 2009.

OP-ED Svante E. Cornell, "Russia Shuts Out the International Community," Daily Telegraph, 16 June 2009.

OP-ED Nicklas Norling, "Don't Put Afghanistan in 'Reset' with Russia," Real Clear World, 6 June 2009.

SILK ROAD PAPER Erica Marat, Labor Migration in Central Asia: Implications of the Global Economic Crisis, May 2009.

BOOK Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, eds., The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2009. Click for book flyer and Order form.

OP-ED Slawomir Debski and Svante E. Cornell, ”Najwyższy czas na Partnerstwo Wschodnie [Now Is the Time For Eastern Partnership]”, Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw), 6 May 2009; also as “Nesmíme lámat hůl nad Východem [We Should Not Give Up On the East]”, Hospodarske Noviny (Prague), 6 May 2009; "Ha Llegado la Asociacíon Oriental", El Mundo, 7 May 2009; "Найкращий час для «Східного партнерства»", Den (Kiyiv), 13 May 2009.

BOOK Marlène Laruelle, Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia, Routledge, April 2009.

REPORT S. Frederick Starr et.al., Finland's Development Cooperation in Central Asia and South Caucasus, Evaluation Report 2009:1, Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

BOOK Marlene Laruelle, Sebastien Peyrouse, China as a Neighbor: Central Asian Perspectives and Strategies, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2009.

OP-ED Halil M. Karaveli, "Obama Tackles Islam's Role in Society", Real Clear World, 10 April 2009/ Jerusalem Post, 19 April 2009

OP-ED Halil M. Karaveli, "Obama Tackles Islam's Role in Society", Real Clear World, 10 April 2009.

ANALYSIS Svante E. Cornell, "Erdogan, Azerbaijan and the Armenian Question", Turkey Analyst, 10 April 2009.

OP-ED Svante E. Cornell, "Why a Russian 'Reset' Won't Work", Real Clear World, 3 April 2009.

SILK ROAD PAPER Slavomir Horak, Jan Sir, Dismantling Totalitarianism? Turkmenistan under Berdimuhamedow, March 2009.

ARTICLE Svante E. Cornell, "The Caucasus and the Obama Admnistration's Foreign Policy", in Ariel Cohen, ed., Russia and Eurasia: A Realistic Policy Agenda for the Obama Administration, Washington: Heritage Foundation Special Report, 2009.

POLICY PAPER Walter Kegö, Klas Kärrstrand, Klas Marklund, Countering Narcotics Smuggling in Europe's Eastern Neighborhood, February 2009.

SILK ROAD PAPER Ekaterine Metreveli, Niklas Nilsson, Johanna Popjanevski, Temuri Yakobashvili "State Approaches to National Integration in Georgia: Two Perspectives", February 2009.

BOOK Christopher Len, Uyama Tomohiko, Hirose Tetsuya, eds., Japan's Silk Road Diplomacy, 208pp. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2009.

ARTICLE "Moscow Indicates It Won't be Ignored in the 'Near Abroad'", Interview with S. Frederick Starr, Council on Foreign Relations, 12 February 2009.

BOOK Ariel Cohen, Kazakhstan: The Road to Independence - Energy Policy and the Birth of a Nation. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2009.

POLICY PAPER Jon E. Chicky, The Russian-Georgian War: Political and Military Implications for U.S. Policy, February 2009.

ARTICLE Michael Jonsson and Elias Götz, "Political Factors Affecting AML/CFT Efforts in post-Communist Eurasia: the Case of Georgia," Journal of Money Laundering Control, Vol. 12, No.1, January 2009.

ARTICLE Svante E. Cornell, "Pipeline Power: The War in Georgia and the Future of the Caucasian Energy Corridor", Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, vol. 10 no. 1, Winter 2009.

BOOK Marlène Laruelle, Russian Eurasianism An Ideology of Empire, Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, October 2008.

BOOK CHAPTER S. Frederick Starr, "A Regional Approach to Afghanistan and Its Neighbors", Strategic Asia 2008-09, Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Affairs, 2008.

CONFERENCE REPORT Niklas Nilsson, Erik Ahlenius, Thimna Bunte "Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue" Report from a conference held on September 11-12, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.  

SILK ROAD PAPER Svante E. Cornell and Halil Magnus Karaveli, Prospects for a 'Torn' Turkey: A Secular and Unitary Future?, October 2008.

ARTICLE Svante E. Cornell, "War in Georgia, Jitters All Around", Current History, October 2008.

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

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


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