Category: Volume 1, Issue 37, 2006

ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF UZBEKISTAN’S NEW ENERGY POLICY FORMULATION

Georgi PETROV Georgi Petrov, Ph.D. (Techn.), Head of the Hydropower Laboratory, Institute for Water Problems, Tajikistan Academy of Sciences (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) World historical experience shows that successful development of any state largely depends on correctly selected strategic goals and priorities. In fact, there are plenty of examples showing that the choice of true directions has…

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GEORGIA ON THE EVE OF ANOTHER ELECTION CYCLE

Malkhaz MATSABERIDZE Malkhaz Matsaberidze, D.Sc. (Political Science), professor at Ivan Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) On 1 October, 2005, five one-candidate (majority) constituencies went to the polls to elect their parliament deputies.1 Even though the results could not tip the balance of forces in the country’s legislature where the ruling bloc and its supporters dominate…

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INDIA’S ENERGY SECURITY AND CENTRAL ASIA’S ENERGY RESOURCES

Ambrish DHAKA Ambrish Dhaka, Assistant professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India) Introduction This century will witness the twilight of organic energy sources and perhaps the dawn of commercially successful non-organic sources. The mere truth that the former are non-renewable is a major caveat to their incessant use for future needs.…

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CORRUPTION FIGHTING AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN KYRGYZSTAN: TODAY AND TOMORROW

Talaibek KOICHUMANOV Talaibek Koichumanov, D.Sc. (Econ.), professor; in the 1990s, Minister of Economics; later Finance Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic. Today studies under the Fulbright Program at the Johns Hopkins University (U.S.A.) Introduction We all know from international experience that higher incomes and higher investments in the economy, as well as longevity are mainly observed…

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ARMENIA’S PARTICIPATION IN THE GLOBALIZATION PROCESSES

Arsen VARTANIAN Arsen Vartanian, Third Secretary of the Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia) Integration of the Republic of Armenia (RA) into the global trade and economic system, which began after 1991, is proving to be a far from smooth process. Its main focus is carrying out…

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STATE-BUILDING vs. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (The Case of Azerbaijan and Its Oil Fund Management)

Mehmet KALYONCU Mehmet Kalyoncu, Graduate fellow at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (Washington, U.S.) Dependency is what the state elite, be it government officials or the political leader, of the developing countries at the periphery make of it. That is, whether the…

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RUSSIA AND AMERICA IN CENTRAL ASIA (An Attempt at Comparative Analysis)

Vladimir PLASTUN Vladimir Plastun, D.Sc. (Hist.), professor, Department of Oriental Studies, Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia) At different times, the term “Central Asia” denoted different concepts depending on whether a geographer, politician, paleontologist, economist, historian, or linguist was using it. All of them, however, had to take into account the alignment of political forces responsible…

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MUSLIM COMMUNITIES OF THE ROSTOV REGION

Rinat PATEEV Rinat Pateev, Research associate, Department of Political Science and Ethnic Policies, the North Caucasian Civil Service Academy (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) A vast body of works has recently appeared by Russian social scientists who look into the dynamics of religious revival and re-Islamization in Russia. They mainly concentrate on administrative units with autochthonous Muslim populations,…

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INDEPENDENT NEWS WEB SITES’ COVERAGE OF RELIGION IN CENTRAL ASIA

Eric FREEDMAN, Maureen WALTON Eric Freedman, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University School of Journalism (East Lansing, U.S.) Maureen Walton, A Journalism graduate of Michigan State University; is now associated with Sorenson Communications (Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.) The five Central Asian governments tightly control religious freedom and practices. Most mass media remains state-owned or…

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ISLAMIC ECONOMIC MODEL AND THE PROBLEMS OF ITS APPLICATION IN RUSSIA

Renat BEKKIN Renat Bekkin, Ph.D. (Law), lecturer at the Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations of the Foreign Ministry of Russia (Moscow, Russia) 1. Fragments of Foreign Experience The world’s first Islamic bank, Mit Gamr Bank, was set up in 1963 in a place called Mit Gamr in Egypt. The bank, which functioned on…

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