No. 4, Issue 22, 2003

CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS
English Edition
Journal of Social and Political Studies
Volume 4, Issue 22, 2003
IN THIS ISSUE:

REGIONAL SECURITY

Sergey Minasian. IRAN’S NUCLEAR MISSILE PROGRAM AND REGIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMS

Elkhan Nuriyev. AZERBAIJAN’S FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS

David Gudiashvili. NATO MEMBERSHIP AS GEORGIA’S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY

Rustam Burnashev, Irina Chernykh. TURKMENISTAN’S ARMED FORCES: PROBLEMS AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

ELECTIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY

Andrey Baranov. ELECTORAL FIELD IN RUSSIAN REGIONS (THE KRASNODAR TERRITORY STUDY-CASE)

Zaza Baazov. GEORGIA: POWER AND THE NGOs ON THE EVE OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

Robert Bruce Ware, Enver Kisriev. BENDING NOT BREAKING: DAGHESTAN’S PRESIDENTIAL EXPEDIENT

Naira Airumian. CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS, AND SETTLEMENT OF THE KARABAKH CONFLICT

ENERGY POLICY AND ENERGY PROJECTS

Igor Tomberg. ENERGY POLICY IN THE COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS

David Preiger, Irina Maliarchuk, Taisia Grinkevich. PIPELINES FOR CASPIAN OIL

Marika S. Karayianni. RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY FOR CENTRAL ASIA PASSES THROUGH ENERGY AGREEMENTS

Adaliat Muradov. AZERBAIJAN’S OIL SUPPLIES: CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

Bulat Khusainov, Kulyash Turkeeva. KAZAKHSTAN’S ENERGY POTENTIAL TODAY AND TOMORROW

Aziz Niyazi. TAJIKISTAN: ITS HYDROPOWER RESOURCES AND THE PROBLEMS OF THEIR USE

Sergey Kamenev. TURKMENISTAN: ENERGY POLICY AND ENERGY PROJECTS

Sergey Smirnov. THE TRANS-AFGHAN PIPELINE AND ITS PROSPECTS

ETHNIC RELATIONS

Alexander Khamagaev. AFGHANISTAN: AN ETHNOPOLITICAL PORTRAIT. A UNITARY OR A FEDERAL STATE?

Gidaiat Orudzhev. AZERBAIJAN’S NATIONAL MINORITIES TODAY

Oleg Sidorov. MIGRATION INTENTIONS OF THE GERMANS OF KAZAKHSTAN AND POSSIBLE REPERCUSSIONS

Albert Kaganovich. THE BUKHARAN JEWS AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

RELIGION IN SOCIETY

Davlat Nazirov. POLITICAL ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA: ITS SOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT STAGES

Irina Babich, Akhmet Iarlykapov. ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN KABARDINO-BALKARIA: TRENDS AND PROBLEMS

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The Special Feature section in the next issue will discuss:
Central Asia and the Caucasus

  • Regional Conflicts (Abkhazia, Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia, Chechnia) and Roads to Settlement
  • The Place of Religion in the Sociopolitical Context
  • Statehood Development