Donald Rumsfeld, a former U.S. secretary of defense, has started a foundation that includes as one of its main areas of focus Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Within days of the start of full-scale hostilities last month between Georgia and Russia, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan floated the idea of a Caucasus stability pact modeled on a 1999 Balkan agreement.
A US congressional hearing on the closed border between Turkey and Armenia has highlighted what is likely to be the newest legislative battle for Armenian Americans and their allies in Congress.
The European Union views the establishment of democracy and rule of law in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan as being critical elements in the resolution of post-Soviet conflicts of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.
The news is bleak for media outlets in the Caucasus and Central Asia, according to an annual report released by Freedom House on April 29. And the forecast calls for periods of repression, heavy at times.
The economies of the post-Soviet Eurasian states are growing faster than Asia as a whole, and are suffering from higher-than-average inflation, according to a new report issued by the Asian Development Bank.
Kosovo, specifically the impact of its independence on the geopolitical situation in the Black Sea and Caspian basins, stands to be a hot topic at NATO's April 2-4 summit in Bucharest.
Most Caucasus writing these days is either journalistic or academic, obsessed for the most part with conflicts or oil. The Ghost of Freedom manages to break the mold: Charles King, a professor of government and international affairs at Georgetown University, has produced a work that is at once informative, eclectic, and immensely satisfying.
Promoting peace and stability in the Caucasus and Central Asia is an "important item" on Turkey's foreign policy agenda, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said in an address in Washington, DC. Gul's visit to the United States was devoted largely to heralding the return of a solid US-Turkish strategic partnership.
