CESRAN Int.

By Shahid R. Siddiqi | 12 October 2010 Fears have been expressed for a long time that successful resistance by the Pashtun Taliban against American occupation of Afghanistan and the imminent defeat...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 23 September 2010 On Wednesday, a lot of Azerbaijani people expressed their great delight at the approval of Matthew Bryza as the new ambassador to Azerbaijan by...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 17 September 2010   The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on 22 July that Kosovo's declaration of secession from Serbia did not break international law. In...

By Upstream | 17 September 2010 The head of Russia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said today that talks on building the Samsun-Ceyhan oil link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...

By Prof. Barry Rubin | 29 August 2010 Although this is a bit outside what I usually discuss (but I have an excuse coming up in a moment), I recommend to...

By Ahmed Rashid | 04 August 2010   There have been doubts in the US and Europe about the war in Afghanistan and clamour for an even earlier withdrawal of international...

By Ahmed Rashid | 03 August 2010 Over the past 32 years, Afghans have fought a series of wars to keep their country together. For all the machinations of great powers...

By Aunohita Mojumdar | 29 July 2010 The girls' high school under construction in Jabal Seraj could have turned out like any other development project in the area: crumbling and dangerous. Afghanistan...

By Ahmed Rashid | 26 July 2010 This week's conference in Kabul to determine the future of international support for Afghanistan is critical. The meeting, attended by Foreign Secretary William Hague, US...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 26 July 2010 "After the August war" - most political analysts use this quote when discussing events after the Georgian-Russian war in 2008, which changed the political map...

By Deirdre Tynan | 12 July 2010 For more than six years, the Pentagon paid fees to the Turkmen government for the use of the Central Asian nation’s airports. However, officials in...

By Nino Pasturia | 13 July 2010 An effort to remove Georgia’s North-South gas pipeline from a list of strategic state-owned properties is stirring controversy. Officials in Tbilisi maintain that full privatization...

 By Alisher Khamidov | 14 June 2010 Not only is southern Kyrgyzstan experiencing a refugee crisis, the region is facing a humanitarian disaster brought on by deepening shortages of food and medical...

By Joanna Lillis | 09 June 2010 It has been widely reported that Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has rejected parliament-approved amendments to enhance his executive powers. But Nazarbayev’s refusal to sign the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 01 June 2010 The South Caucasus is a region where a number of unresolved conflicts still exist in the absence of regional security arrangements. Indeed, three unresolved (Nagorno-Karabakh,...