The Uzbek-Tajik détente: can it last?
By George Voloshin (08/07/2015 issue of the CACI Analyst) On June 22-24, Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, hosted a third meeting of the Uzbek-Tajik intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation....
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CACI Analyst, July 8, 2015 ContentsAnalytical ArticlesTHE UZBEK-TAJIK DÉTENTE: CAN IT LAST?, by George VoloshinAGRI’S PROGRESS ADVANCES BRUSSELS’ AND BAKU’S ENERGY AGENDAS, by Micha’el...
View ArticleUzbekistan concerned over SCO expansion
By Farkhod Tolipov (05/08/2015 issue of the CACI Analyst) The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held its annual summit on June 9-10, 2015, in the Russian town of Ufa, which was an historical...
View ArticleIran and the SCO: new opportunities, new challenges
By Richard Weitz (05/08/2015 issue of the CACI Analyst) Now that the UN Security Council has blessed the Iranian nuclear deal, Tehran’s chances of becoming a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation...
View ArticleWas the SCO summit in Ufa a breakthrough?
By Stephen Blank (19/08/2015 issue of the CACI Analyst) The annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization took place on July 9-10 in Ufa, and ratified the expansion of membership to include...
View ArticleRussia's Syria initiative and the exaggerated ISIS threat to Central Asia
By Emil Aslan Souleimanov September 25th, 2015, The CACI Analyst Russia’s recent military engagement in Syria and calls for the establishment of an international coalition against the terrorist group...
View ArticleRussia-Uzbekistan migration agreement unlikely to change conditions for migrants
By Umida Hashimova February 10th, the CACI Analyst Uzbekistan and Russia are working to develop a governmental agreement on organized job placements for potential labor migrants from Uzbekistan to...
View ArticleCentral Asia, the AIIB and the advent of 5G communication
By Kairat Bekov and Gregory Gleason April 1st, 2016, The CACI Analyst Competition over technological advantage has replaced rivalry over territorial advantage in the great games of contemporary Central...
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 ArticleThe IMU is extinct: what next for Central Asia's jihadis?
By Jacob Zenn May 3rd, 2016, The CACI Analyst For more than a decade after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the U.S., the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) was the “bogeyman” of Central Asian...
View ArticleIs China about to make military moves in Central Asia?
By Stephen Blank May 9th, 2016, The CACI Analyst China has steadfastly refused to get involved in providing hard, i.e. military, security to Central Asian governments, including Afghanistan. This might...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan's prime minister resigns over corruption scandal
By Arslan Sabyrbekov May 6th, the CACI Analyst On April 11, Kyrgyzstan’s prime minister officially announced his decision to step down amidst allegations of corruption. Temir Sariev, who has headed the...
View ArticleAd-hoc peace or ad-hoc war: micro-geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus
By Farkhod Tolipov June 2nd, 2016, The CACI Analyst A few weeks before the April 2-5 fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenia, a border crisis occurred between Uzbekistan and...
View ArticleUzbekistan and South Korea: towards a special relationship
By Mirzokhid Rakhimov and Sung Dong Ki June 10th, 2016, The CACI Analyst South Korea’s Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn visited Uzbekistan on May 19-20, 2016. The visit was the fifteenth official...
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 ArticleThe Tashkent summit and the expanded SCO
By Farkhod Tolipov July 27th, 2016, The CACI Analyst 50 years ago, Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent hosted a summit ending the India-Pakistan war of 1965, resulting in the Tashkent Declaration. It was, so...
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 ArticleSigns of improving relations between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan but tensions...
By Edward Lemon October 19th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Since the death of Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov in early September, signs have emerged of a thaw in relations between Uzbekistan and its...
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 ArticleUzbekistan between a new president and the same nation: is it perestroika?
By Farkhod Tolipov January 10th, 2016, The CACI Analyst On December 4, 2016, three months after the death of Uzbekistan’s first President Islam Karimov, the country held new presidential elections. The...
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