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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 newz 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.

 

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.

 


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.


PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS



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.

March 11
CACI Forum "Turkey, Russia, and the West in the Caucasus: a Turkish Perspective" with Amb. Ünal Çeviköz.

March 10
Silk Road Forum "EU-Russian Energy Relations: Can Europe Free Itself from Russian Assertiveness?", with Fredrik Erixon.

March 2
Silk Road Forum "Where is Turkey Heading?", with Binnaz Toprak, Haluk Sahin, and Gareth Jenkins, Stockholm. Event Summary now online.

February 25
CACI Forum "Russia: Central Asia's 'Near Abroad', with Paul Goble, Washington DC.

February 23
CACI Forum What’s at stake at the Manas Airbase?, with Stephen J. Blank and Evan A. Feigenbaum, Washington DC.

February 5
Fellowship Announcement The Joint Center is now accepting applications for a post-doctoral fellowship on the Wider Black Sea region, based in its Stockholm office. Click here for details.

January 28
CACI Forum "Impact of Indian events on NATO Initiatives in Afghanistan", with Gen. David Barno and Minister Ali Jalali, Washington DC.

January 26
CACI Forum "Caspian Energy, the US, EU, and Russia", with Amb. C. Boyden Gray, Washington DC.

December 16
CACI Forum: "Turkey and NATO: in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Afghanistan," with Vahit Erdem. Click here to download audio for this event.

December 10
Conference "Georgia: Opening new Frontiers", in Cooperation with the America-Georgia Business Council.

November 20
Silk Road Forum on "Soviet Cultural Heritage and Nation Building in Uzbekistan" with Dr. Alexander Djumaev, in cooperation with the Department of South and Central Asian Studies, Stockholm University.  




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