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Slow growth predicted, but Caspian region remains dynamic

Slow growth predicted, but Caspian region remains dynamic

Nigel Li

02/18/2025

In its newly released Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank predicts ...

Obituary:  U. S. Agency For International Development

Obituary: U. S. Agency For International Development

That the current presidential administration in Washington is taking steps world...

What Ending U.S. Assistance Means for the Caucasus and Central Asia

What Ending U.S. Assistance Means for the Caucasus and Central Asia

With the current U.S. administration shuttering the United States Agency for Int...

Digitizing Customs: How eTIR is Transforming the Middle Corridor

Digitizing Customs: How eTIR is Transforming the Middle Corridor

Ali Dayar

02/05/2025

Across the Trans-Caspian region there is an apparent need for a universal framew...

An FTA Between India and the EAEU?

An FTA Between India and the EAEU?

Some policymakers are beginning to speak optimistically about India signing a fr...

The Ankara Declaration: Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Türkiye Reaffirm Ties

The Ankara Declaration: Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Türkiye Reaffirm Ties

The Turkic vector of regional politics in Central Asia and the South Caucasus re...

Is the time ripe? Jackson-Vanik Repeal Faces Congressional Hurdles

Is the time ripe? Jackson-Vanik Repeal Faces Congressional Hurdles

Ali Dayar

01/27/2025

As U.S. policymakers seek to strengthen ties with the resource-rich nations of C...

New Years Addresses: The Caspian Region in 2025

New Years Addresses: The Caspian Region in 2025

In much of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, New Year’s Eve remains the central holida...

C5+Trump: Getting the US Down to Business in Central Asia

C5+Trump: Getting the US Down to Business in Central Asia

The five Central Asian countries will not be at the top of President-elect Donal...

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and China Announce New Cargo Terminal in Baku

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and China Announce New Cargo Terminal in Baku

Toghrul Ali

11/15/2024

Increased attention to the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, also kno...

Defining U.S. National Security Interests in Central Asia.  A Trans-Caspian Super Highway?

Defining U.S. National Security Interests in Central Asia. A Trans-Caspian Super Highway?

In 2014, I was heavily involved in the U.S. Military's Northern Distribution Net...

OTS Builds on Organizational Momentum

OTS Builds on Organizational Momentum

Continuing its steady growth trajectory, the Organization of Turkic States (OTS)...

On the Prospects of the Zangezur Corridor for Central Asia

On the Prospects of the Zangezur Corridor for Central Asia

Following the end of the Second Karabakh War in 2020, Azerbaijan began restoring...

Rosatom in Central Asia: Russia Eager to be Involved in Central Asian Energy

Rosatom in Central Asia: Russia Eager to be Involved in Central Asian Energy

Russia has long sought influence through the sizable role it plays in global ene...

EU Unveils New Middle Corridor Coordinating Platform

EU Unveils New Middle Corridor Coordinating Platform

October 3-4,Turkmenistan hosted a high-level forum for European Union officials ...

Central Asia+: Summitry Takes Region to New Heights

Central Asia+: Summitry Takes Region to New Heights

Toghrul Ali

09/06/2024

Central Asia is gaining prominence on the global stage as major international ac...

Central Asia and Azerbaijan Reaffirm Ties in the Consultative Meetings of the Heads of States

Central Asia and Azerbaijan Reaffirm Ties in the Consultative Meetings of the Heads of States

Toghrul Ali

08/21/2024

Central Asian leaders’ commitment to increased regional collaboration and integr...

The Climate Crisis has come to the South Caucasus

The Climate Crisis has come to the South Caucasus

Zachary Weiss

07/29/2024

Climate change has begun to harm the physical and economic security of people li...

OTS Rides the Middle Corridor to the Summit

OTS Rides the Middle Corridor to the Summit

Member-country ministers were charged with optimizing and digitalizing the Middl...

The United States Needs a New Strategy in Central Asia

The United States Needs a New Strategy in Central Asia

Why is the United States in the wings instead of at the center of Middle Corrido...