Publication

This issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst opens with four analytical articles on the scandal surrounding the short-lived return to politics of Georgia’s former hawkish defense minister Irakli Okruashvili, Russia-Chinese security competition in the Central Asia-Caucasus region, Washington’s counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan, and parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan. It also features four field reports on women and peacebuilding in Afghanistan, bread inflation in Kazakhstan, a 2007 Tajik-Uzbek-Turkmenistan energy deal and Ramadan in Uzbekistan. The final pages furnish a news digest on the Central Asia-Caucasus region.