Central Asia and the Caucasus

Irina Egorova. POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM FOR THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA (Based on documents from a Round Table organized at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oriental Studies)

Igor Dobaev. RADICAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD: ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE

Georgii Mirskiy. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

Nadezhda Emelianova. ISLAM IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS: THE OBVIOUS AND THE CONCEALED (Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia)

Saodat Olimova. POLITICAL ISLAM: A DIALOG OR A CONFRONTATION WITH SOCIETY AND THE STATE?

Ivlian Khaindrava. A PATH TO REGULATED CHAOS. Assessing a Decade of Georgia’s Independence

David Berdzenishvili, Fridon Sakvarelidze. POLITICAL PROCESS IN POST-SOVIET GEORGIA

Lidia Imanalieva. THE MAIN RESULTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS AND FOREIGN POLICY IN KYRGYZSTAN DURING ITS YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

Alymbek Bijalinov. THE DECADE OF REFORMS IN KYRGYZSTAN HAS NOT BROUGHT THE MARKET ECONOMY ANY CLOSER

Rashid Abdullo. TAJIKISTAN: THE POLITICAL RESULTS OF A DECADE OF INDEPENDENCE

Inom Asrorov, Zulfia Asrorova. TAJIKISTAN’S ECONOMY IN THE YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

Kadyr Mustafakulov, Alisher Taksanov. UZBEKISTAN: TEN YEARS OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

Paul Georg Geiss. LEGAL CULTURE AND POLITICAL REFORMS IN CENTRAL ASIA

Farkhod Tolipov. CERTAIN THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF CENTRAL ASIAN GEOPOLITICS

Viacheslav Belokrenitskiy. BIG GAME ELEMENTS IN THE WESTERN WAR AGAINST TERROR

Bolat Sultanov. DEVELOPMENT STAGES IN KAZAKHSTAN’S FOREIGN POLICY

Shimon Briman. CHECHEN EXTREMISM AND PALESTINIAN INTIFADA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGES TO RUSSIA AND ISRAEL

Sergei Kamenev. TURKMENISTAN’S FUEL AND ENERGY COMPLEX: PRESENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

Ashot Egiazarian, Amalia Saribekian. PROBLEMS OF ARMENIA’S ENTRY INTO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

Roman Gotsiridze, Otar Kandelaki. GEORGIA: HALFWAY REFORMS AS A FACTOR OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

The Special Feature section in the next issue will discuss:

Central Asia and the Caucasus

• Ethnic Conflicts and Disputed Territories
• Inter-state and Interregional Integration
• Religion in the Sociopolitical Context