No. 2, Issue 14, 2002

IN THIS ISSUE:
REGIONAL POLITICS

Talgat Ismagambetov. STRUCTURING CENTRAL ASIA’S NEW GEOPOLITICAL SPACE: REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PROSPECTS

Roger N. McDermott. RUSSIA’S SECURITY AGENDA IN CENTRAL ASIA

Dina Malysheva. MANY-SIDED RIVALRY ON THE CASPIAN SEA

David Gullette. TRIBALISM IN KYRGYZSTAN EXAMINED

Sergei Kamenev. THE CURRENT SOCIOPOLITICAL SITUATION IN TURKMENISTAN

Lia Melikishvili. GEORGIA: POTENTIAL SEATS OF ETHNIC CONFLICTS

Alexander Krylov. THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF FORMING A MULTIPARTY SYSTEM IN ABKHAZIA

RELIGION IN SOCIETY

Sergei Abashin. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN CENTRAL ASIA: WHY IT APPEARED AND WHAT TO EXPECT

Sapar Ali Beibit, Muhamed-Kanafia Barbasov. KAZAKHSTAN: RELIGIONS AND RELATIONS BETWEEN CONFESSIONS

SPECIAL FEATURE
INTER-STATE AND INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS

Farkhod Tolipov. REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Dmitri Trofimov. SHANGHAI PROCESS: FROM THE “FIVE” TO THE COOPERATION ORGANIZATION. SUMMING UP THE 1990S AND LOOKING AHEAD

Laura Bagdasarian. COOPERATION IN SOUTHERN CAUCASUS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Yuri Kochubei. GUUAM AND EQUAL REGIONAL COOPERATION

Oleg Rybkin, Sergei Kazanskiy. TRANSNATIONALS AND NATURAL MONOPOLIES IN CIS INTEGRATION PROCESSES

CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Vladimir Alpatov. ALPHABET REFORM: CYRILLIC OR LATIN?

Azat Egiazarian. ARMENIA: CULTURE IN THE YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

REGIONAL ECONOMIES

Vahagn Khachatrian. BASIC TRENDS IN ARMENIA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN 1991-2001

Rauf Jabiev. AZERBAIJAN: PRIVATIZATION OF STATE PROPERTY AND ITS EFFECTS

Vladimir Papava. ON THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF GEORGIA’S INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FUNCTION

Ali Zhuraev. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND FORMATION OF MIDDLE CLASS IN UZBEKISTAN

Kai Wegerich. NATURAL DROUGHT OR HUMAN MADE WATER SCARCITY IN UZBEKISTAN?

DEMOGRAPHY

Dmitri Nikitin, Alexander Khalmukhamedov. MIGRATION AS A DESTABILIZATION FACTOR IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS

Azer Allakhveranov. THE MIGRATION SITUATION IN AZERBAIJAN

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The Special Feature section in the next issue will discuss:

Central Asia and the Caucasus

  • The Place of Religion in the Sociopolitical Context
  • Antiterrorist Campaign of the West and Its Impact on the Local Situation
  • Power and Elections