No. 4 , Issue 16, 2002

IN THIS ISSUE:
REGIONAL POLITICS

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz. POLAND’S FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CENTRAL ASIAN REGION AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Xing Guangcheng. THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM, EXTREMISM, AND SEPARATISM

Jannatkhan Eivazov. THE ANTITERRORIST CAMPAIGN AND NEW GEOPOLITICAL AND SECURITY TRENDS IN THE REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS

Murat Laumulin. CENTRAL ASIA AFTER 11 SEPTEMBER

Saodat Olimova, Muzaffar Olimov. ANTITERRORIST CAMPAIGN IN AFGHANISTAN AND ITS IMPACT ON CENTRAL ASIAN NEIGHBORS

Makhir Khalifa-zadeh. SECURITY PROBLEMS IN ASIA AND CERTAIN ASPECTS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Irina Zhmuida, Marina Morozova. THE GOLDEN CRESCENT AND CENTRAL ASIA: HEROIN EXPANSION

Sergei Golunov. RUSSIA-KAZAKHSTAN: “SECURITY AND COOPERATION” DILEMMA ALONG THE COMMON BORDER

Roger N. McDermott. THE CRISIS IN THE KAZAKH ARMED FORCES

Sergei Kamenev. TURKMENISTAN’S FOREIGN POLICY

Sevara Sharapova. UZBEKISTAN’S MULTISIDED DIPLOMACY IN THE CONTEXT OF ANTITERRORIST CAMPAIGN

ETHNIC RELATIONS

Fatima Albakova. STATE SYSTEM IN CRISIS AS A CATALYST OF ETHNOPOLITICAL TENSION

Bülent Aras, Havva Karakaş-Keleş. TURCO-ARMENIAN RELATIONS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Guram Svanidze, Konstantin Kokoev. EMIGRATION FROM GEORGIA AND ITS REASONS (Results of a Sociological Survey)

Baurzhan Zhanguttin. KAZAKHSTAN’S SLAVIC POPULATION: DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AND STATUS

Natalia Belitser. THE CRIMEAN TARTARS AND ELECTIONS-2002 IN UKRAINE

RELIGION IN SOCIETY

Igor Dobaev. RADICAL WAHHABISM AS AN EXTREMIST RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

Guli Yuldasheva. ISLAM IN UZBEKISTAN: PECULIARITIES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHANGES IN ISLAM

REGIONAL ECONOMIES

Viacheslav Komarov. INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE CIS

Valeriy Kuzmenko. VERTICAL INTEGRATION AS A FACTOR OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN GUUAM AND EURASEC

Maia Nebieridze. TRACECA AND THE GREAT SILK ROAD AS A FACTOR IN REBUILDING GEORGIA’S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

Ilkhom Ibragimov. ECONOMIC POLICY AND STRUCTURAL REFORM IN UZBEKISTAN

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The Special Feature section in the next issue will discuss:

Central Asia and the Caucasus

  • Antiterrorist Campaign of the West and Its Impact on the Local Situation
  • Power and Elections
  • Russia and the West: Cooperation or Competition?