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Внутренние пределы международной экспансии: Российские государственные нефтяные компании и мировые рынки

Газпром и, в последнее время, Роснефть расширяют свою деятельность за рубежом, пытаясь закрепиться на мировом рынке нефти в качестве ведущих игроков. Большинство аналитиков представляют эту экспансию спланированным «захватом власти», целью…

The Domestic Limits of International Expansion: Russian National Oil Companies & Global Markets

Gazprom and, more recently, Rosneft have both expanded their operations abroad, seeking to establish themselves as major players on the international petroleum market. Most commentators have portrayed this expansion as…

Recurring Referendums: The Struggle for Constitutional ‘Reform’ in Kyrgyzstan

With the adoption of its new constitution by referendum on June 27, 2010, Kyrgyzstan made history by becoming only the second state in post-Soviet Eurasia (after Moldova, and not including…

Beyond ‘Resource Nationalism:’ Implications of State Ownership in Kazakhstan’s Petroleum Sector

Analysts have likened the growing direct state role in Kazakhstan’s petroleum sector since 2002 to a form of resource nationalism that is part of a global trend precipitated by high…

After Afghanistan Implications of the “War on Terrorism” for Central Asia

U.S. policymakers have already begun to ask and develop answers to the increasingly common and undeniably important questions of what a post-Taliban Afghanistan might look like and what the role…

A Dangerous Balancing Act: Karimov, Putin, and the Taliban

Less than six months ago, several related events in Afghanistan suggested anything but an impending peace agreement among hostile neighbors in this war-torn region. Tensions among the relevant actors in…

In Its Own Image: Toward a Re-conceptualization of Central Asia

With the collapse of the USSR came the dislocation of the Soviet republics–not only from their former political and economic status within the former Soviet Union, but also from their…

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