Nagorno-Karabakh confrontation highlights Russia's clout over warring parties
By Armen Grigoryan April 15th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Tensions along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh between April 2 and 5 resulted in the heaviest exchanges of fire since 1994. Even though the...
View ArticleThe Pap-Angren Railway and Its Geoeconomic Implications for Central Asia
By Mirzohid Rahimov April 19th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Central Asian nations consider the development of alternative regional transport communications important aspects of their national economic and...
View ArticlePoisk-2016: CSTO stages intelligence and reconnaissance exercise
By Roger N. McDermott May 31st, 2016, The CACI Analyst Russia’s Armed Forces are conducting a series of exercises in Central Asia ostensibly designed to reassure regional allies that Moscow will assist...
View ArticleFixing the Aral Sea disaster: towards environmental cooperation in Central Asia?
By Rafis Abazov June 28th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Kazakh experts have recently begun to call water the “liquid gold of the 21st century,” as all states in the Central Asian region face greater demand...
View ArticleRussia creates area denial system in South Caucasus
By Eduard Abrahamyan July 24th, 2016, The CACI Analyst On June 30, Armenia’s Parliament ratified the Russia-Armenia United Regional System of Air Defense in the Caucasian Region, thereby moving it to...
View ArticlePutin-Xi meeting underlines Russian weakness faced with China's geoeconomics...
By Robert M. Cutler August 28th, 2016, The CACI Analyst On June 25, Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China met in Beijing, immediately after spending two days together in Tashkent...
View ArticleTechnoparks in Kazakhstan: will they help develop the innovation sector?
By Rafis Abazov and Zhumatay Salimov October 4th, 2016, The CACI Analyst The government of Kazakhstan has been among the pioneers in Central Asia in promoting the development of technoparks, perceived...
View ArticleKazakhstan and Azerbaijan plan an undersea trans-Caspian oil pipeline
By Robert M. Cutler November 7th, 2016, The CACI Analyst According to Azerbaijan’s energy minister Natig Aliev, his country and Kazakhstan will construct an oil pipeline under the Caspian Sea to...
View ArticleUzbekistan-Tajikistan: game over, but what is the score?
By Farkhod Tolipov December 15th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Uzbekistan’s and Tajikistan’s independence in 1991 raised the Shakespearean “To be or not to be?” question concerning the ambitious construction...
View ArticleEU–China trade to bolster security in the South Caucasus
By Boris Ajeganov January 23, 2017, the CACI Analyst Foreign investment in Georgia is strengthening the country’s importance in connecting East Asia with Europe, which has positive implications for the...
View ArticleIsraeli PM’s visit to the two sides of the Caspian Sea
By Avinoam Idan February 6, 2017, the CACI Analyst Israel’s Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu made a landmark visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan in December 2016. The Israeli Prime Minister's visit...
View ArticleWeaker Turkey leaves the South Caucasus without Strategic Anchor
By Mamuka Tsereteli February 17, 2017, the CACI Analyst The weakening strategic position of Turkey will have a profound impact on the Black Sea-Caspian region and wider Central Asia. An assertive...
View ArticleCentral Asia: An Opportunity for the Trump Administration
By Stephen Blank March 22, 2017, the CACI Analyst Central Asia has never ranked high on U.S. priorities. That is unlikely to change under the Trump Administration. Yet recent developments in Central...
View ArticleRevere or Reverse? Central Asia between Cyrillic and Latin Alphabets
By Farkhod Tolipov June 6, 2017, the CACI Analyst In April this year, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev made it clear that Kazakhstan intends to change from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet....
View ArticleHas the SCO Solved its Expansion Dilemmas?
By Richard Weitz August 3, 2017, the CACI Analyst The June Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana marked the SCO’s first membership expansion since its creation in 2001. By finally...
View ArticleThe India-China Clash and the Expanded SCO
By Stephen Blank October 16, 2017, the CACI Analyst The recent Indo-Chinese crisis over the Doklam area has been peacefully resolved for now, yet its repercussions risk spilling over to both South and...
View ArticleChina's Aluminum Industrial Capacity Cooperation in Kazakhstan
By Tristan Kenderdine October 19, 2017, the CACI Analyst International Capacity Cooperation is China’s policy answer to comparative advantage, a vast state-planning exercise to coordinate China’s...
View ArticleBaku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway to Become Central Asia's Gateway to Europe
By Fuad Shahbazov December 7, 2017, the CACI Analyst On October 30, 2017, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, along with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Georgia’s Prime-minister Giorgi...
View ArticleKazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan Support Spain's Integrity
By Stephen Blank December 13, 2017, the CACI Analyst Recently, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan proclaimed their support for and recognition of Spain’s territorial integrity. These announcements...
View ArticleIs there an Agreement on Caspian Sea Delimitation?
By Stephen Blank January 25, 2018, the CACI Analyst On December 5, 2017, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that all the key issues regarding the delimitation of the Caspian Sea had been...
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