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A greater Central Asia partnership for Afghanistan and its neighbors / S. Frederick Starr. - Stockholm : Silk Road Studies Program, Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2005. - 38 p. (Silk Road paper) This paper proposes that progress in Afghanistan has opened a stunning new prospect that was barely perceived, if at all, when Operation Enduring Freedom was launched. This prospect is to assist in the transformation of Afghanistan and the entire region of which it is the heart into a zone of secure sovereignties sharing viable market economies, secular and relatively open systems of governance, respecting citizens’ rights, and maintaining positive relations with the U.S..
http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2005_starr_a-greater-central-asi...
Keywords: Afghanistan, Central Asia, Conflicts. Terrorism, Nordic Perspective, Publications, Security, South Asia, Sweden,

By Maria Stalbovskaya, publishedSeptember/October 2008 by GlobaLex. GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world.
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Uzbekistan1.htm
Keywords: Central Asia, Law and legislation, Uzbekistan,

By Oleg & Maria Stalbovsky, published June 2006 by GlobaLex. GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world.
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Turkmenistan.htm
Keywords: Central Asia, Law and legislation, Turkmenistan,

The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. The archive is searchable by region, sub-region, country and theme.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex
Keywords: Central Asia, China, East Asia, Hong Kong, Human rights, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 11, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Anatomy of a crisis : U.S.-Uzbekistan relations, 2001-2005 / John Daly, Kurt Meppen, Vladimir Socor and S. Fredrick Starr. - Stockholm : Silk Road Studies Program, Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2006. - 112 p. (Silk Road paper) Few, if any, observers anticipated the rapid downward spiral of U.S.-Uzbek relations during the past several years. Those who supported the strategic partnership did so with the confidence that it embodied the true interests of both countries and hence would be of long duration. Having staked their credibility, and in some cases their careers, on the validity of this proposition, they would have to have been astonished as they watched the breakdown unfold. By contrast, there were those on both sides who were critical of the U.S.-Uzbek partnership from the outset. But such skeptics were equally unprepared for the speed and extent of the deterioration. The first purpose of the following papers is to begin the task of identifying the causes of this development. Only by clearly understanding what occurred will it be possible for each country to plot a rational path forward. To that end, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute/Silk Road Program organized an informal team of scholars and participants coordinated by John J. C. Daly to establish a chronology of the relationship between 2001 and the end of 2005.
http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2006_daly-et-al_anatomy-of-a-cri...
Keywords: Central Asia, International relations, Nordic Perspective, Politics and society, Publications, Sweden, Uzbekistan,

Kyrgyz National University
Anjelika Mamytova is a PhD student at Kyrgyz National University. As part of her doctorate she conducted in cooperation with Stockholm University research on effect of market economy on formation of civil society in Kyrgyzstan (OSI/HESP CARTI Junior fellowship) and she is at the moment placed in Sweden. She is an expert on civil society, democratization and market in Central Asia and former CIS. Anjelika Mamytova conducted research on base of Uppsala University, Swedish Institute of Foreign Affairs and Women’s Foundation in Sweden. She is a fellow of NIAS Oresund Visiting scholarship, Institute of Humane Studies and OSCE CAYN program. She holds a BA and MA in Political Science from Stockholm University. Contact email anma6528@mbox.su.se
http://barha.asiaportal.info/blogs/in-focus/2010/april/kyrgyz-revolution-lessons...
Keywords: Central Asia, Civil society, Democracy, Economic issues, Market economy, Political systems, Politics and society,

The vision of an integrated, poverty-free, prosperous, and peaceful Asia and Pacific underlies initiatives to support regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in the region. Changing world economic realities have highlighted the importance of closer economic cooperation in the region and the need within ADB for a coherent and strategically focused approach to RCI. Building on its previous initiatives on regional cooperation, ADB has developed a coherent RCI strategy by consolidating its efforts since the early 1990s. On 25 July 2006, the ADB Board of Directors endorsed the RCI Strategy, in which ADB plays an active role as catalyst, coordinator, and knowledge leader of RCI in Asia and the Pacific. The RCI Strategy has four pillars: (i) Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation Programs (Cross-border Infrastructure and Software) (i) Trade and Investment Cooperation and Integration (i) Monetary and Financial Cooperation and Integration (i) Cooperation in Regional Public Goods Established in 1 April 2005, the Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI) facilitates and coordinates ADB's efforts in RCI and raises ADB’s profile in key RCI events. OREI coordinates RCI activities by serving as a knowledge center on RCI as well as a key player in policy consultation and institutional capacity building for developing member countries and regional/subregional groups. To support the RCI strategy, OREI launched the Asia Regional Integration Center (ARIC) on 2 October 20061 as a knowledge and information portal on RCI in Asia and the Pacific. It monitors emerging trends in regional economic integration, particularly flagship programs under ADB initiatives on RCI, and publishes the latest statements of ADB Management on RCI progress. Among knowledge products, the Integration Indicators Database is a user-friendly and flexible statistical tool that features a set of integration indicators to monitor progress on RCI. ARIC also houses the only online database that tracks free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia and the Pacific. The FTA Database contains all bilateral and plurilateral agreements globally with at least one Asian country as signatory. It covers all agreements at all stages of development, from those under study or consultation to those in force. This database also provides users agreement texts to easily compare FTAs. Initiative-specific resources, made available for the four RCI pillars, provide a comprehensive coverage of latest headline news, insightful editorials, cutting-edge research, and links to related websites on RCI. As a new knowledge resource published by OREI, the Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration provides in-depth analysis of major topics relating to RCI. Other related papers and books by ADB staffs are included. The Seminar Series on Regional Economic Integration brings together key people involved in regional integration for strategic discussions on emerging issues. Asian Macroeconomic Developments covers an array of resources on selected Asian countries. These include economic and financial data, economic reports, policy researches, as well as the Asian Economic Monitor which provides a semiannual review and outlook on growth and development in emerging East Asia. The vast trove of information found in ARIC makes it a vital source for a wide variety of users, including policymakers from major government agencies, economic and policy analysts in the multilateral aid community, strategic groups in the private sector, relevant nongovernment organizations, academic researchers, journalists, and economic commentators.
http://aric.adb.org/
Keywords: Central Asia, Development, Development. Poverty, East Asia, Economic development, Oceania, South Asia, Southeast Asia,

Asian Affairs is produced and published by by Larkincil International Ltd, a private consulting company based in Hong Kong providing policy makers, transnational group executives and major think-tanks with a strategic perspective of Asian affairs through specific research studies and confidential reports. asian affairs is dedicated to regular studies and analysis of Asia, South, Southeast and East Asia, particularly in the field of international relations, economics and financial affairs.The purpose of Asian Affairs is to strengthen communication and understanding and to offer a platform of exchange of information between Asia and Europe in the field of regulations, policies and economic trends and business cooperation.
http://www.asian-affairs.com/Frametop/think-tank.html
Keywords: Bangladesh, Central Asia, China, East Asia, General references, In Focus, In Focus 2010, In Focus 2010 Week 08, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, North Korea, Philippines, Research, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam,

Asset-based poverty in rural Tajikistan : who climbs out and who falls in? / Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Cem Mete. - Helsinki : UNU/WIDER, 2008. - 30 p. (Research paper / United Nations University. World Institute for Development Economics Research ; 2008/26) Tajikistan’s rural sector has witnessed substantial development since the country began to emerge from civil conflict in 1999. Gross agricultural output increased 64 per cent from 1999 to 2003, and there were significant developments in the agricultural reform agenda. This paper uses the panel component of two surveys conducted in Tajikistan at one-year interval (2003 and 2004) to explore the major determinants of the transition out of/into poverty of rural households. Poverty status is measured in the asset space, thus indicating structural rather than transitory poverty movements. The empirical analysis reveals several interesting findings that are also important from a policy perspective: first, cotton farming seems to have no positive impact on poverty levels, nor on mobility out of poverty. Second, the rate of increase in the share of private farming at the district level had little impact on poverty levels and poverty mobility.
http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/nordic_webpublications/x506035785.pdf
Keywords: Central Asia, Development, Development. Poverty, Finland, Nordic Perspective, Poverty, Publications, Rural development, Social conditions, Social welfare, Tadzhikistan,

From Orientering on Danish Radio 4 August 2008. Interview with Henriette Kristensen, NIAS Research Assistant, about the situation in Xinjiang.
http://www.dr.dk/P1/orientering/indslag/2008/08/04/153829.htm
Keywords: Central Asia, China, Conflicts. Terrorism, East Asia, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, Islam, Philosophy. Religion, Political movements, Politics and society, Xinjiang,