Publication

This issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst opens with four analytical articles on the Kazakh government’s unexpected embrace of the comedic character Borat, Moscow’s clientelism in Chechnya, media freedom in Azerbaijan and the politics surrounding the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (CANWFZ) treaty. It also features four field reports on infrastructure construction between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, the Russia-Georgia natural gas row, Uzbek-Kyrgyz bilateral relations and NATO’s role in Afghanistan. The final pages furnish a news digest on the Central Asia-Caucasus region.