CIAO DATE: 08/01

EastWest Challenges: Energy and Security in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Abstract

The newly independent states of the region - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the south Caucasus and Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkemistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia - face the challenges of transition to full statehood and pluralist market economies while negotiating the presence of large oil and gas reserves. The complex relationship between external and internal challenges continues to unfold.

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