Central 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 ArticleChina – Pakistan Economic Corridor: An Opportunity for Central Asia?
By Fuad Shahbazov June 19, 2017, the CACI Analyst In May 2017, China hosted an international summit in Beijing gathering 28 heads of state from four continents and representatives of various...
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 ArticleUzbekistan Works to Reshape Central Asia
By Eldor Aripov November 7, 2017, the CACI Analyst On September 25, the UN concluded the 72nd session of its General Assembly at the headquarters in New York. Over a hundred heads of state and...
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 ArticleDeepening 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 Policy Bank Investment Profits from Uzbekistan's Monetary Policy Reform
By Tristan Kenderdine April 16, 2018, the CACI Analyst Following high-profile visits by Premier Li Keqiang in 2015 and Xi Jinping in 2016, China’s is domestically devolving its trade and industrial...
View ArticleUzbekistan: A New Model for Reform in the Muslim World?
Uzbekistan: A New Model for Reform in the Muslim World? Dramatic and important changes are taking place in Central Asia. For more than a year the region’s historic core and geopolitical focal point...
View ArticleTaking the U.S.-Uzbekistan Relationship to the Next Level: Mirziyoyev's...
By Sanjar Valiyev June 11, 2018, the CACI Analyst President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s visit to Washington was historic, being the first official visit of an Uzbek president since 2002. Mirziyoyev’s...
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 ArticleUzbekistan-Tajikistan Relations: The Long Way to Strategic Partnership
By Farkhod Tolipov September 18, 2018, the CACI Analyst Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev’s state visit to Tajikistan on March 9-10, 2018, represented a“closure of the circle” in a series of...
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 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 ArticleHistory Repeats Itself: Uzbekistan's New Eurasian Gamble
By Farkhod Tolipov November 22, 2019, the CACI Analyst During an official visit to Tashkent on October 2, 2019, the Speaker of the Federal Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko, stated...
View ArticleUzbekistan's Significance in India's Central Asia Policy
By Niranjan Marjani February 27, 2020, the CACI Analyst Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov visited India on January 14-15, 2020, where he met with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam...
View ArticleCentral Asia Nervously Awaits Withdrawal of Foreign Militaries from Afghanistan
By John C. K. Daly April 8, 2020, the CACI Analyst After 18 months of negotiations, the U.S. and the Taliban signed their bilateral landmark “peace agreement” in Doha on February 29, alongside...
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