Dez 2009
Strategic Assessment of the Caspian Sea Basin Region
04.12.2009. Category:Central Asia
On May 7 and 8, the Brookings Energy Security Initiative (ESI) and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) co-hosted a conference entitled "Strategic Assessment of the Caspian Sea Basin Region".More ...
Central Asia’s electricity system falls apart
02.12.2009. Category:Central Asia
Four of the five Central Asian countries have muddled along with an often unsatisfactory, yet workable, shared electricity system that was devised after the break-up of the Soviet Union. This year, however, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have finally been provoked into announcing their withdrawal from the shared grid.More ...
Tajikistan may stop water flow as Uzbekistan pulls plug on powe
01.12.2009. Category:Tajikistan | Uzbekistan
For more than a decade Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have had a rocky relationship. But now, following an announcement by Tashkent that it is withdrawing from the Central Asian electricity grid, bilateral ties may take a dangerous nosedive.More ...
Educating Afghans not an OSCE pipe dream
01.12.2009. Category:Kazakhstan
Fresh from Kabul, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev vowed to strengthen the humanitarian dimension of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s strategy for Afghanistan when his country assumes the OSCE's chairmanship in January 2010. The situation in Afghanistan now appears to be definitely worse than it was a couple years ago.More ...