Publication

This issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst opens with four analytical articles on deteriorating Kazakhstan-Georgia economic relations; Russia and Turkey and the Montreux Convention; the negotiating potential of Islamic insurgents in the North Caucasus; and food security in Central Asia. It also features four field reports on media freedom in Uzbekistan; Turkmenistan’s September 2008 adoption of a new constitution; politics in Kyrgyzstan; and child labor in Uzbekistan. The final pages furnish a news digest on the Central Asia-Caucasus region.