Category: Volume 2, Issue 10

THE POST-SOVIET BORDERS OF CENTRAL ASIA: SECURITY AND COOPERATION

Sergei GOLUNOV Sergei Golunov, Ph.D. (Hist.), director, Eurasian Research Institute, Volgograd State University (Russian Federation) The political events of the end of the 20th century dramatically changed the situation in post-Soviet Central Asia. This area of the former politically, ideologically and partially economically uniform space of a vast state, separated from the outside world by…

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CHINA’S STRATEGIC INTERESTS IN CENTRAL ASIA. COOPERATION WITH CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES

Bao YI Bao Yi, Research associate, Institute of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, Academy of Social Sciences of China Strategic Interests From time immemorial Central Asia has been one of the junctions on the Silk Road of antiquity. Today it plays this role for the New Eurasian Continental Bridge by connecting nations and blending…

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IRAN AND TURAN: APROPOS OF IRAN’S RELATIONS WITH CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASIAN REPUBLICS

Dr. Abbas MALEKI Abbas Maleki, Director General, International Institute for Caspian Studies, Director, International Relations Research Department, Center for Strategic Research (Tehran, Iran) History Central Asia, which consists of vast expanses of steppe-land, desert and semi-desert interspersed with rich pastureland, was destined by nature to develop nomadic cattle breeding. Between the seventh and third centuries…

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TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD TRANSCAUCASUS

Bülent ARAS Bülent Aras, Chair, Department of International Relations, Fatih University, Istanbul Cardinal Richelieu had once said, “A poor prince would not be able to undertake glorious action.” It was hardly possible to believe that this saying can be a metaphor for Turkey, which has been presented as a role model and further a pivotal…

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THE OIL FACTOR IN THE CHECHEN CONFLICT

Sanobar SHERMATOVA Sanobar Shermatova, Observer, Moskovskie novosti newspaper, Moscow, Russia The Chechen oil is wrapped in myths in which big politics and huge oil profits are mingled together. It is accompanied by a long list of unsolved murders, incomplete investigations the heroes of which are either dead or hiding. People in Chechnia are convinced that it…

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THE CAUCASIAN POLITICAL TANGLE: PAST AND PRESENT

Edisher KHOSHTARIA-BROSSE Edisher khoshtaria-Brosse, Professor, D.Sc. (Hist.), leading scientific fellow at the Georgian Academy of Sciences Political Science Institute The Georgians held the idea of unity among the Caucasian peoples, which historian Leonty Mroveli wrote about in the 11th century in his book Kartlis tskhovreba (The Chronicles of the Kartli Kingdom), throughout the whole of the Middle…

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NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN THE TRANSCAUCASUS: INCONSISTENCY AND DOMESTIC RESPONSE

Megumi NISHIMURA Megumi Nishimura, Assistant Professor, Department of International Politics and Economics, Nishogakusha University (Japan) Introduction: Issues and Cases Through the analyses of the cases in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, the article attempts to show two aspects of the international community’s approach to national self-determination. First, it shows that the international community still lacks…

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IDEOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS OF ETHNIC POLICIES IN THE CAUCASUS

Afrand DASHDAMIROV Afrand Dashdamirov, D.Sc. (Philos.), Academician, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan; Professor, Russian Academy of Civil Service at the RF President Any discussion of the problems of peace and development in the Caucasus invariably runs into the major issue: its nations depend on the relationships among them. As an historical phenomenon the region…

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CONTINUITY OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION: PROBLEMS OF REALIZATION (Yeltsin-Putin study case)

Baglan MAILYBAEV Baglan Mailibaev, Ph.D. (Political Sciences), senior research associate, Institute of State and Law, Kazakh State Academy of Jurisprudence (Kazakhstan) The ancient list of Sumerian kings quotes mind-bogging terms of rule of pre-Flood and post-Flood kings. The further they are removed from the historical times the more unbelievable the terms of their rule became.…

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THE FORMATION OF A MULTIPARTY SYSTEM IN UZBEKISTAN

Dr. Resul YALCIN Resul Yalcin, a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) Introduction This paper is a study of a history of multiparty systems in Uzbekistan since 1905. The paper addresses the political parties allowed to function and then banned; the parties re-formed and then dissolved; and the parties…

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