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Third Group of CACI Fellows complete six-week stay in Washington DC. Click Here for more information.

Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst March 3 , 2010, is online. Click here for entire issue in PDF format.

zThe China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, no. 3, 2009, is online, exploring the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan; the stabilization of Afghanistan; various perspectives on the SCO; the regional interests of Iran and India; female suicide in Tajikistan; and Russia's strategic goals in Central Asia.

Turkey Analyst
March 1, 2010, issue is online. Click here for entire issue in PDF format.

 

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ANALYSIS
Halil M. Karaveli, "Will the Reversal of the Regime of Military Tutelage Encourage a Reinvention of Turkey's Secular Camp?", Turkey Analyst, 1 March 2010.

ANALYSIS
Svante E. Cornell, "As Dogan Yields, Turkish Media Freedom Plummets", Turkey Analyst, 18 January 2010.  

ARTICLE
Niklas Swanström, "China and Greater Central Asia: Economic Opportunities and Security Concerns", in China, the Developing World, and the New Global Dynamics, January 2010.

ARTICLE
Svante E. Cornell, "'Moderate Islam' in Turkey," in SAISPHERE 2009-10: Religion's Grasp on World Affairs, p. 16-19.

ARTICLE
Sebastien Peyrouse & Marlène Laruelle “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Successes and Challenges”, The Journal of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University, vol. 28 no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-14.

OP-ED Svante E. Cornell, "Europe Exposes Russia's Guilt in Georgia", Wall Street Journal, 1 October 2009.

ARTICLE Erica Marat, "Nation Branding in Central Asia: A New Campaign to Present Ideas about the State and the Nation", Europe-Asia Studies, September 2009.

ARTICLE
Svante E. Cornell and Niklas Nilsson, "Georgian Politics since the August 2008 War", Demokratizatsiya, vol. 17 no. 3, Summer 2009.

ARTICLE
S. Frederick Starr, "Rediscovering Central Asia," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2009. (PDF Version)

ARTICLE
Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, "The Militarization of the Caspian Sea: 'Great Games' and 'Small Games' over the Caspian Fleets," China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 7 no. 2, 2009.

BOOK
Erica Marat, The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence, Routledge, 2009.

SILK ROAD PAPER
Gareth Jenkins, Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey's Ergenekon Investigation, August 2009.

ANALYSIS Svante E. Cornell, "Finishing the Job: Russia Tightens Its Grip on Georgia's Breakaway Regions", Foreign Policy, July 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.

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.



PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS



March 11
CACI Forum "Does the U.S. have a Caspian Policy?" with C. Boyden Gray and Alexandros Petersen.

February 25
CACI Forum The U.S.-Georgia Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities" with Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili.

January 20
CACI Forum "Israel, Turkey and Azerbaijan: Strategic Shifts?" with Dr. Alexander Murinson.

January 18
Silk Road Forum "Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West", with Ronald D. Asmus and Svante E. Cornell. (Stockholm).

December 15
CACI Forum "What is at Stake for the U.S. in Afghanistan?" with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

November 18
CACI Forum "From Rhetoric to Reality: Prospects for Turkey's Future and the AKP’s Authoritarian Tendencies" with Gareth H. Jenkins

November 5
Silk Road Conference "Still Headed West? Turkish Foreign Policy in Transition", Stockholm.

October 26
CACI Forum "China and Regional Security in Afghanistan and Pakistan", with Dr. Pan Guang.

October 21
CACI Forum "An IMF View on the Global Economic Crisis in the Caucasus and Central Asia" with Dr. Ratna Sahay.

October 6
CACI Forum "What must be done now to make Afghanistan a Hub of Continental Trade and Transport?" with Wahidullah Shahrani.

September 28
CACI Forum "The Northern Distribution Network to Afghanistan (NDN): Strategic and Economic Implications" with Andrew Kuchins and Thomas Sanderson.

September 14
CACI Forum "Gathering Clouds in Kyrgyzstan", with Baktybek Abdrisaev, Baktybek Beshimov, Robin Phillips and Anthony Bowyer.

June 11
CACI Forum Book presentation and Discussion: The Guns of War of August 2008: Russia’s War in Georgia, with Andrei Illarionov, David J. Smith and Svante E. Cornell.

June 10
CACI Forum Yusuf of Balasagun: 11th Century Political Philosopher from Present-day Kyrgystan”, with S. Frederick Starr and Rusty Butler.

May 12
Silk Road Forum "Dealing with China: Central Asian Perceptions" with Dr. Marlène Laruelle and Dr. Sébastien Peyrouse

May 3
Second Group of CACI Fellows Completes Program in Washington, DC. The second group of seven fellows completed a six week program of orientation, high level meetings and research in Washington, DC from March 23 to May 3, 2009. Click here for more.

May 8
Silk Road Forum "Turkey’s Neighborhood Policy since 2002" with Dr. Suat Kiniklioglu, Deputy Chairman of External Affairs of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey.

May 6-7
Conference "Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia and Beyond," SAIS-Nitze School, Johns Hopkins University (Rome Auditorium).

May 5-6
Conference "Eastern Partnership: Towards Civil Society Forum", Prague. Official side-event of the Czech EU Presidency under the auspices of H. E. Mirek Topolánek, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. The conference is organized by the Czech Association for International Affairs in cooperation with the Joint Center and other Institutes.

April 22
CACI Forum Rising Leaders from Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan Offer Recommendations for US Policy towards Their Region, with CACI's current Young Leaders fellows.

April 20

Silk Road Forum
"Challenges and Prospects of Georgian Foreign Policy after the Russia-Georgia War" with H.E. Mr. Grigol Vashadze, Foreign Minister of Georgia.

March 25
CACI Forum "Stress-testing Central Asia: Financial Crisis and the Banking Sectors of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan", with Sergei Gretsky, William C. Veale and Robert S. Pace

March 18

CACI Forum
"NATO and Central Asia: Past and Future" with Dr. Roger Kangas.

March 17
Seminar in Javakheti, Georgia  on "Strengthening National Integration in Georgia",  in cooperation with the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies.

CACI Spring 2009 Fellows Announced
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute has concluded its selection process for its fellowship program for young leaders from Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan.  We are pleased to announce the winners for the spring 2009 session. Click here for more.



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