Category: Volume 1, Issue 37, 2006

SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETIA: WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER RUSSIA WITHDRAWS ITS MILITARY BASES FROM GEORGIA

Sergey MINASIAN Sergey Minasian, Ph.D. (Hist.), director of the Scientific-Research Center of the Southern Caucasus’ Regional Security and Integration Problems, Russian-Armenian (Slavic) State University, researcher at the Institute of History, Republic of Armenia National Academy of Sciences (Erevan, Armenia) Introduction On 30 May, 2005, high-ranking representatives from Moscow and Tbilisi signed a statement essentially signifying…

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PROBLEMS IN IMPLEMENTING AND OBSERVING THE LAW OF WAR IN THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS

Kamal MAKILI-ALIEV Kamal Makili-Aliev, Research associate, Institute of Human Rights, National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan Republic, member, Azerbaijan Union of Young Lawyers (Baku, Azerbaijan) Introduction The breakup of the U.S.S.R. was a process marked by conflicts for all countries of the Central Caucasus. Many experts have tried to define these conflicts as ethnic, regional, separatist,…

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LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS: THE OSCE MEDIATION IN THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT (1992-1996)

Ohannes GEUKJIAN Ohannes Geukjian, Assistant Professor of Politics, Human Rights, and Cultural Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU), and Haigazian University in Beirut; Member of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) (Beirut, Lebanon) 1. Introduction The aim of this article is to examine and analyze the mediation of the Organization for Security…

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THE 2005 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN KAZAKHSTAN: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION

Timur SHAYMERGENOV Timur Shaymergenov, Research associate, Kazakhstani Institute of Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Almaty, Kazakhstan) In recent years, the world’s attention has been riveted on the fairly inordinate political trends in some of the post-Soviet states. The Color Revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan surprise no one; experts are…

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THE 2005 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN: INFLUENCING FACTORS

Dr. Elkhan NURIEV Elkhan Nuriev, Senior researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Berlin, FRG) Introduction Two years after he was elected head of state, Ilkham Aliev was confronted with the threat of a possible political crisis in Azerbaijan. On 6 November, 2005, the country went to the polls to elect the…

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ELECTIONS IN CENTRAL ASIAN STATES: POLITICAL RIVALRY IN A TRANSITIONAL SOCIETY

Ksenia BORISHPOLETS Ksenia Borishpolets, Ph.D. (Political Science), assistant professor at the Department of World Political Processes, deputy dean of the Political Science Department, Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations of the Foreign Ministry of Russia (Moscow, Russia) The beginning of the third millennium is a very difficult time to make an objective assessment of…

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NDIA’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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CASPIAN OIL IN THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND WORLD POLITICAL CONTEXTS

Gennady STARCHENKOV Gennady Starchenkov, D.Sc. (Econ.), chief research associate, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) In May 2005, a fairly pompous ceremony in Baku marked the filling of the Azeri stretch of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) with oil. A lot of high flowing words were said as the oil reached Georgia…

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