Deepening Central Asian Nonproliferation Partnerships
By Richard Weitz February 22, 2018, the CACI Analyst Preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has been a priority for Uzbek-U.S. and Kazak-U.S. relations for decades....
View ArticleThe Reemerging Self-Confidence of Central Asia
By Johan Engvall March 22, 2018, the CACI Analyst Something is stirring in Central Asia. The past two weeks have seen a flurry of bilateral and multilateral get-togethers, starting on March 9, when...
View ArticleNew Central Asia But Old Great Game? Ramifications of the Consultative...
By Farkhod Tolipov April 10, 2018, the CACI Analyst On March 15, 2018, the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and the speaker of Turkmenistan’s parliament gathered in...
View ArticleChina's Belt and Road Initiative: Relieving Landlocked Central Asia
By Avinoam Idan May 1, 2018, the CACI Analyst One of the most significant factors impacting Central Asia is its landlocked geography. This situation affects almost every sphere of life—foreign...
View ArticleProject "ASTANA": Signs of Demographic Upheaval?
By Rafis Abazov July 10, 2018, the CACI Analyst On the eve of the 20th anniversary of moving Kazakhstan’s capital from Almaty to Astana, the country’s government announced that the city of Astana has...
View ArticleUNGA Adopts Resolution on Strengthening Cooperation in Central Asia
By Batir Tursunov September 5, 2018, the CACI Analyst At its June 22, 2018, plenary session, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on “Strengthening regional and international cooperation to...
View ArticleU.S.-Kazakhstan Transit Agreement Faces Challenges From Russia
By Nurlan Aliyev September 20, 2018, the CACI Analyst During the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Almaty on June 11, 2018, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey...
View ArticleBuilding the Great Financial Silk Road: Hub by Hub
By Rafis Abazov October 16, 2018, the CACI Analyst During the Astana Financial Days event in July 2018, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan announced and personally endorsed the opening of...
View ArticleThe Perspective of Trans-Caspian Gas Flow to Europe
By Ilgar Gurbanov October 25, 2018, the CACI Analyst On August 12, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran, and Turkmenistan signed the Convention on the Caspian Sea’s Legal Status in Astana. The...
View ArticleKazakhstan as an Arctic State and a Maritime Power
By Tristan Kenderdine January 23, 2019, the CACI Analyst The Ob’-Irtysh is the sixth largest river in the world by drainage area and sixth longest in the world at 5,410 kilometers. It is a broad and...
View ArticleRegional Cooperation in Central Asia: Relevance of Foreign Models
Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Relevance of Foreign Models A renewed spirit of regionalism is emerging in Central Asia, manifested most overtly in a summit of Central Asian leaders in Astana in...
View ArticleKazakhstan's President Resigns at a Moment of Political Tension and Uncertainty
By Natalia Konarzewska March 22, 2019, the CACI Analyst In February 2019, Kazakhstan saw a wave of protests triggered by various social and economic grievances. Rallies burst through the country in...
View ArticleXinjiang: Internment Camps with "Temporary" Characteristics?
By Ruth Ingram March 25, 2019, the CACI Analyst Official reassurances that Xinjiang's internment camps are only "temporary" fly in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary. Faced with...
View Article"Modeling" Peace on the Great Silk Road
By Rafis Abazov April 5, 2019, the CACI Analyst Recent initiatives on stabilizing Afghanistan and security in the region during the high-level International Conference on Afghanistan in Geneva, and...
View ArticleWhy Kazakhstan's Presidential Elections Matter
By Rafis Abazov May 23, 2019, the CACI Analyst The resignation of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev in spring 2019, after 30 years of uninterrupted stewardship, had an unexpected timing....
View ArticleKazakhstan Elects New President
By Natalia Konarzewska June 18, 2019, the CACI Analyst On June 9, 2019, Kazakhstan held snap presidential elections following the resignation of long-term President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev’s...
View ArticleCentral Asia: Delayed Consultations, Suspended Integration
By Farkhod Tolipov July 2, 2019, the CACI Analyst After almost a decade-long break in regional summits of Central Asian states, the ice began to melt in March 2018 when the leaders of five Central...
View ArticleRussia Moves to Strengthen its Profile in Central Asian Gas Politics,...
By Azad Garibov October 24, 2019, the CACI Analyst With a promise to increase gas imports from Central Asia and to resume gas purchases from Turkmenistan after a three-year break, Russia’s energy giant...
View ArticleKazakh Anti-Chinese Protests and the Issue of Xinjiang Detention Camps
By Elzbieta Pron and Emilie Szwajnoch October 31, 2019, the CACI Analyst On September 21, another wave of popular anti-Chinese protests burst in Kazakhstan’s two main cities – Nur-Sultan (formerly...
View ArticleKazakhstan's President Visits China Amid Troubles at Home
By Natalia Konarzewska November 12, 2019, the CACI Analyst On September 11-12, Kazakhstan’s new President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev paid his first official visit to China, aiming to upgrade bilateral ties...
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