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Interview 180: Comparing Oil Strategies in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan

November 29, 2010 - 12:47pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan

As an economist studying the relationship between oil companies and governments in former Soviet countries, Heidi Kjaernet noticed an incongruity. The general theory, Kjaernet says, states that...
Interview 180: East Asian Economies May Be Model for Central Asia

November 12, 2010 - 7:24pm

by: Justin Burke, Katya Kumkova

Central Asia

As an economist at the University of Applied Sciences in Goettingen, Manuel Stark studies development models. Stark, who has spent time in South Korea and Mexico, compares developing countries in...
Interview 180: Russia's "Near Abroad" Policy Focuses on Security, Dismisses China

November 5, 2010 - 4:55pm

by: Justin Burke, Katya Kumkova

China
Georgia
Kyrgyzstan
Russia

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has continued to refer to its neighboring countries – the former Soviet republics and, at times, other Eastern European countries formerly under...
Kazakhstan’s Old Believers Keep the Faith

November 4, 2010 - 3:38pm

by: David Trilling and Joanna Lillis

Kazakhstan

In 1666, the Russian Orthodox Church split apart. Those who did not accept reforms were persecuted. Many fled to remote parts of the Russian Empire where their descendents still live. They are...
Interview 180: Examining the Oil Boom in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan

October 28, 2010 - 11:00am

by: Justin Burke, Katya Kumkova

Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan

In 1993, Chevron Corporation established a joint venture with the Kazakh government, signing on to a $40 billion commitment over the next 40 years to develop oil extraction in Kazakhstan.
Interview 180: Azerbaijan Eager to Maintain Balanced Foreign Policy

October 1, 2010 - 5:18pm

by: Justin Burke, Katya Kumkova

Azerbaijan

Samuel Lussac is a PhD candidate in political science at the Institute of Political Science (Sciences-Po) in Bordeaux, France. He has published numerous papers on the political economy of...
Demining in Nagorno-Karabakh May Take Cutback

July 13, 2010 - 10:18am

by: Jonathan Makiri

Nagorno-Karabakh

Since the year 2000, the international mine clearance organization HALO Trust has disarmed more than 10,000 landmines in Nagorno-Karabakh left behind by both Armenian and Azeri fighters. The...
Unearthing the Past to Get to the Future in Istanbul

June 8, 2010 - 10:40am

by: Dorian Jones

Turkey

When Turkish rail workers began construction on a tunnel that would connect Europe and Asia and relieve traffic congestion in the heart of Istanbul in 2004, they hoped to finish the project by...
Interview 180: OSCE Summit Must Have Point

March 11, 2010 - 4:00pm

by: Katya Kumkova

Kazakhstan

Anthony Pahigian, deputy director of the US State Department’s Office of European Security and Political Affairs, gave an informal lecture at the Open Society Institute in New York on February 24...
Interview 180: Democratization Crucial for Security

March 2, 2010 - 10:00am

by: Katya Kumkova

Kazakhstan

Vladimir Shkolnikov, a former top official at the Organization for the Security and Cooperation of Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), took part in an informal...

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