Review of 2011 internationally and events in Japan (March 11 and brutal tsunami) James Jomo and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In 2011 many political convulsions have challenged nations in North Africa and the Middle East. The optimism of the so-called “Arab Spring” remains to be unfulfilled because you have so much uncertainty in [...]
Political Violence in Western Kazakhstan By The Jamestown Foundation Kazakhstan has experienced an unusual wave of political violence in the oil-rich western part of the country. The deadly clashes between protestors and Kazakhstan’s security forces that left 15 dead and 110 injured took place just a month before the parliamentary elections scheduled for January 15, [...]
Afghanistan: a nation where converts to Buddhism and Christianity face death Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and a host of other nations, keep on sending economic support to Afghanistan and how do the leaders of this nation respond? Yes, they still support an [...]
Kazakhstan Imposes Tougher Measures to Stem the Rise of Religious Extremism Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 194 Farkhad Sharip The Jamestown Foundation On October 6, the regional court of Aktobe in western Kazakhstan announced verdicts on four members of a terrorist gang. The men were accused of killing two policemen and a special [...]
Putin Attempts to Reinvent the Customs Union As a Eurasian Bloc Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 184 By: Erica Marat The Jamestown Foundation Russian Prime Minister Vladimir is yet to win the presidency formally next year, but he has already laid out ambitious foreign policy plans in regard to former Soviet states, Russia’s [...]
Afghanistan Ground Situation Far From Reassuring B.Raman According to an analysis by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates such as the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe-Islami (HI) attempted to launch three big attacks on strategic targets in Kabul since the responsibility for the internal security of Kabul was [...]
New, Greater Impulse In Italian-Kazakh Relations Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 165 By: Dario Cristiani The Jamestown Foundation Kazakhstan and Italy are developing a major strategic partnership that is rapidly altering ties between the two countries. For Italy, one of the main and constant aims of Italian foreign policy – regardless of [...]
Training Afghanistan’s Security Forces: NATO Has Made Solid Progress By Sally McNamara The Heritage Foundation Speaking in Brussels last week, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicted a “dim, if not dismal future for the transatlantic alliance.” He stated: The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress…to [...]
China or the SCO: Who will supervise Afghanistan? Publication: China Brief Volume: 11 Issue: 15 By: Jagannath P. Panda The Jamestown Foundation The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit at Astana on June 15, 2011 signalled Asia’s regional security order is slowly shifting as Afghanistan appears to be angling to become a new observer member in [...]
Afghanistan Taliban Carries Out A Catastrophic Strike Against US Navy Seals B.RAMAN Seven officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and an officer of the Jordanian Intelligence related to the royal family of Jordan were killed in a suicide attack launched on December 30, 2009, by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year-old [...]
Aid and Conflict in Afghanistan International Crisis Group EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS After a decade of major security, development and humanitarian assistance, the international community has failed to achieve a politically stable and economically viable Afghanistan. Despite billions of dollars in aid, state institutions remain fragile and unable to provide good governance, deliver basic services [...]
Russian-Led Customs Union Intensifies Sino-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 147 By: Roman Muzalevsky The Jamestown Foundation July 1 marked the launch of the now “fully operational” Customs Union (Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia) fueling debate on the future of the post-Soviet space and even the grouping itself. Indeed, ruptures [...]
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