New Policy and Silk Road Papers: Nilsson & Cornell, Georgia's May 2008 Parliamentary Elections, May 2008; Bowyer, Parliament and Political Parties in Kazakhstan, April 2008; Laruelle, Russia's Central Asia Policy and the Role of Russian Nationalism, April 2008.

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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.

SILK ROAD PAPER Erica Marat, National Ideology and State-building in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, January 2008.

ANALYSIS Michael Jonsson and Chirstian Nils Larson, "Selective Implementation of Money Laundering Regimes in Central Asia", Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 23 January 2008.

POLICY PAPER Ingolf Kiesow, Nicklas Norling, Svante Cornell, Niklas Swanström, Pakistan's Crisis: Incremental Steps toward Sustainable Democracy, January 2008.

ANALYSIS Temuri Yakobashvili and Johanna Popjanevski, "Georgia's Post-Revolutionary Period Ends, Posing Challenges and Opportunities", Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 9 January 2008.

OP-ED Svante E. Cornell, "Vindicated, but challenges remain for Georgia’s embattled president", European Voice, 10 January 2008.

ARTICLE Erica Marat, "State-Propagated Narratives about a National Defender in Central Asian States", Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, Vol. 6, No. 7, 2007.

ARTICLE Nicklas Norling and Niklas Swanström, "The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Trade, and the Roles of India, Pakistan, and Iran," Central Asian Survey, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2007): 429-444.

POLICY PAPER Svante E. Cornell, Johanna Popjanevski and Niklas Nilsson, Learning from the Georgian Crisis: Implications and Recommendations, CACI&SRSP Policy Paper, December 2007.

ARTICLE Svante E. Cornell and Kemal Kaya, "Turkey's Elections: Democratic Islamists?", SAISPHERE 2007.

SILK ROAD PAPER Nicklas Norling, Gazprom's Monopoly and Nabucco's Potentials: Strategic Decisions for Europe, November 2007.

ARTICLE Svante E. Cornell, "Finding Balance: The Foreign Policies of Central Asia's States", in Ashley Tellis and Michael Wills, eds., Strategic Asia 2007-08: Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy, Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2007.

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