PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 4 April 2007, is online

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PUBL.- Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 4 April 2007, is online

Posted by: Svante Cornell <svante.cornell@eurasia.uu.se>

Highlights: The CACI Analyst launches its new, redesigned website!
The new redesigned website is being perfected at
http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite. Until technical glitches are
eliminated,the old version of the website is still available.

This Analyst issue features Erica Marat on Chinese-Russian military
exercises in Central Asia; Kevin Leahy on Chechnya's President
Kadyrov; Stephen Blank on the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline; and
Richard Weitz on WMD smuggling in the Caucasus. In Field reports,
articles on energy issues in Tajikistan and Georgia, a Chechen-Kazakh
brawl, and the new Kyrgyz Prime Minister.

Note: New Silk Road Papers Published:

"The Wider Black Sea Region: An Emerging Hub In European Security"
By Svante E. Cornell, Anna Jonsson, Niklas Nilsson, and Per Haggstrom,
120pages.
Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0612Blacksea_P.pdf

"The State-Crime Nexus In Central Asia: State Weakness, Organized
Crime And Corruption In Kyrgyzstan And Tajikistan"
By Erica Marat, 138 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/Silkroadpapers/0610EMarat.pdf

The 4 April issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 9, no.
7) is now online at http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite. The PDF
version of the entire issue is available at:

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/files/070404Analyst_0.pdf

Full contents:

Analytical Articles

Russia And China Unite Forces In "Peace Mission ­ 2007"
Erica Marat

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4586

Chechnya's New President: Rational Actor Or Ideological Zealot?
Kevin Daniel Leahy

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4585

The Burgas-Alexandroupolis Pipeline And Its Implications
Stephen Blank

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4584

Nuclear Smuggling Case Deepens Georgian-Russian Tensions
Richard Weitz

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4583

Field Reports

Can Somebody Turn The Lights On In Tajikistan?
Firuza Ganieva

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4590

Georgian Energy Conference Held
Kakha Jibladze

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4589

Ethnic Chechens Blame Kazakh Authorities And Police For Complacency
Marat Yermukanov

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4588

Opposition Leader Appointed Prime Minister In Kyrgyzstan
Nurshat Ababakirov

http://www.cacianalyst.org/newsite/?q=node/4587

News Digest:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/news.php

The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint
Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala
University, Sweden.

The CACI Analyst welcomes submissions of articles and field reports.
At this moment, we are particularly interested in submissions on
development, economics and finance matters in Central Asia and the
Caucasus region, but all inquiries are welcome. Please contact the
Editor, Svante Cornell, at scornell@jhu.edu with a short description
of your article idea. Editorial principles are online at

http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2063

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