Category: Volume 1, Issue 41, 2006

TRAINING CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNALISTS: SOVIET LEGACIES MEET LESSONS FROM U.S. MEDIA HISTORY

Eric FREEDMAN, Richard SHAFER, Gary RICE Eric Freedman, Assistant professor of journalism, Michigan State University School of Journalism (East Lansing, U.S.) Richard Shafer, Professor of journalism, The University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, U.S.) Gary Rice, Assistant professor of journalism, California State University (Fresno, U.S.) Introduction Western governments, international development agencies, foundations, and donor organizations…

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COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN ETHNOPOLITICAL CONFLICTS: THE CASE OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH

Rauf GARAGOZOV Rauf Garagozov, Ph.D. (Psych.), leading research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus (Baku, Azerbaijan) There is a general agreement among those who study ethnic conflicts that collective memory may fan them, quench violence, or even prevent such conflicts,1 but it rarely becomes a subject of political studies. Strange as it…

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SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETIA AND AROUND IT

Nugzar GOGORISHVILI Nugzar Gogorishvili, Chairman of the Union For Peaceful Development of the Southern Caucasus (Tbilisi, Georgia) The Southern Caucasus is not merely the crossroads of the North-South and East-West transportation and communication routes. It is the place where the ambitions of the most influential actors—Russia, Western Europe and America—clash. For various reasons, Russia is…

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DE FACTO STATELESS: THE MESKHETIAN TURKS

Parikrama GUPTA Parikrama Gupta, Research Assistant, Migration Policy, Research & Communications International Organization for Migration (Geneva, Switzerland) This paper proposes to examine the present sociopolitical conditions of the Meskhetian Turks living in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. As an ethnic minority in a country that has seen a rise in levels of xenophobia…

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BUILDING A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH KAZAKHSTAN (A Blueprint for India’s Central Asia Policy)

Phunchok STOBDAN Phunchok Stobdan, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA) (New Delhi, India) I Indo-Central Asian Relations India has not been able to make significant inroads into Central Asia, a region of vital strategic importance. Central Asia had a considerable impact on the polity and economy all through Indian history.…

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CENTRAL ASIA’S POWER DILEMMAS

Viktor BUDKIN Viktor Budkin, D.Sc. (Econ.), professor, chief research fellow, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) It turned out to be much harder to create new power structures in Central Asia than elsewhere in the post-socialist world: no matter how hard it was for the Central…

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AUTHORITARIAN/CONSTITUTIONAL-PATRONAGE REGIMES IN CENTRAL ASIA

Ertan EFEGİL Ertan Efegil, Dr., Beykent University, Department of International Relations (Istanbul, Turkey) Introduction The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan and public demonstrations in Uzbekistan have drawn the attention of the outside world to the political realities and social conditions of these countries. As a result, those who have dealings with this part of the world…

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THE U.S.’S GREATER SOUTH ASIA PROJECT: INTERESTS OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES AND OF THE KEY NON-REGIONAL ACTORS

Atajan YAZMURADOV Atajan Yazmuradov, Master of Arts in Political Science (Central Asia), Intern at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (Geneva, Switzerland) Introduction At the end of 2005, the U.S. changed its approach toward Central Asia as a region. Until very recently, in keeping with current practice, the White House administration looked at Central Asia…

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REVOLUTIONARY AND POST-REVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES ACROSS THE POST-SOVIET EXPANSE: CAN THEY BE COMPARED? (UKRAINE AND KYRGYZSTAN)

Nikolai BORISOV Nikolai Borisov, Lecturer at the Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow, Russia) Recently the academic and political communities have been showing great interest in the so-called Color Revolutions in the CIS. There are doubts, however, whether the revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan can be placed in the same class of political phenomena and…

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LABOR MIGRATION FROM TAJIKISTAN AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT

Sobir KURBANOV Sobir Kurbanov, Economist, National Program Officer for Economic Affairs, Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) Differences in economic development levels and the level of income can be regarded as the main driving force behind labor migration processes. In the past, in the conditions of an administrative-command socialist economy, the labor market developed…

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