The New China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Corridor
By Emil Avdaliani November 24, 2020, the CACI Analyst In recent years, China has made significant economic inroads into Central Asia. A recently opened new transportation route linking Xinjiang to...
View ArticleThe Fall of Kyrgyzstan’s Parliamentary Experiment and the Rise of Sadyr Japarov
By Johan Engvall January 21, 2021, the CACI Analyst On January 10, voters in Kyrgyzstan went to the polls and elected Sadyr Japarov new president and voted to change the form of government to a...
View ArticleThe Sokh Enclave: A Breakthrough in Central Asian Cooperation
By Farkhod Tolipov April 21, 2021, the CACI Analyst April 1, 2021, saw the reopening of the long-awaited road connecting the Uzbek Sokh enclave, located within Kyrgyzstan, with Uzbekistan’s mainland,...
View ArticleConflict in the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border – a Potential Turning Point for Central...
By Filippo Costa Buranelli May 5, 2021, the CACI Analyst The armed conflict of last week between the armed forces of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is the culmination of years of low-level violence. While...
View ArticleExplaining the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Clash: Hypotheses in Search of Corroboration
By Richard Weitz July 14, 2021, the CACI Analyst A century ago, the Italian author Luigi Pirandello wrote a three-act play entitled “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” which explored the...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan's Initiative: A small land shows Washington a way forward
By S. Frederick Starr November 23, 2021, the CACI Analyst Relations between the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan have been in a slump since the small country closed the U.S. air base at Manas in 2014. In the...
View ArticleThe “Last Soviet Children” Complete Takeover of Kyrgyz Politics
By Johan Engvall Deceber 15, 2021, the CACI Analyst KEY ISSUE: Kyrgyzstan’s recent parliamentary vote may not have been the most inspiring in the country’s modern history of competitive elections. The...
View ArticleDid Cryptocurrency Miners Crash the Central Asian Power Grid?
By Tony Pizur February 22, 2022, the CACI Analyst On January 25, Kazakhstan experienced widespread power outages that also affected neighboring Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Decaying infrastructure and...
View ArticleRussia's War in Ukraine: Implications for Central Asia
By Johan Engvall March 14, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s economic response to it has put Central Asia in a precarious position. As part of what Moscow perceives as its sphere of...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan and the Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus
By Shairbek Dzhuraev August 30, 2022 Ever since 1991, Kyrgyzstan's international relations have focused on balancing its relation with Russia with developing new international partnerships. In the...
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