By Kubangazy BugubaevAfter getting independence status Kyrgyzstan became politically dependent, economically weak and strategically alone country. It needed new friends, new big friends. Alongside there were Russia, China, USA and EU countries, but questions were new relations and what country could be first for Kyrgyzstan? As an answer for that question ex-president Askar Akaev (1991-2005) began Kyrgyzstan-Russian relations. The Total Text: Kyrgyzstan-Russia Relations...
Pakistan is holding unprecedented elections to pass on power from one elected government to another on May 11, a rare event in Pakistan’s chequered history of military coups. No doubt, it will consolidate Pakistan’s ever-threatened democracy. But the clouds of uncertainty still hover over elections as militants have escalated violence towards political parties. The run up to elections has been bloody so far. Pakistan’s outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) has defined three political parties as ‘secular’ and ‘agents’ of Western countries and thus liable to be targeted. These parties: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Awami National Party (ANP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have b...
It is the utmost importance to comprehend the domestic politics in its relations with the international system especially in regard to Kazakhstan and Turkey. It is also for sure that within the international system, the negotiations occupy more attention than the space they occupy in the world politics. Experiencing negotiations come forward within the political economy of foreign policy making vis-à-vis the international organizations as in the case of Turkey’s long standing negotiations with the European Union (EU) or Tajikistan’s negotiations with the World Trade Organization (WTO) having resulted in the former’s membership on March 2, 2013. Kazakhstan’s active negotiation process...
When it comes to Russia, the word power or vlast is written on capital letters and, certainly vlast throughout all these years seems to have topped President’s Putin lexicon. Vlast however comes with a price and President Putin seems not to be bothered at taking any risks in the name of ‘the’ vlast. As Churchill once put it in his ‘’iron curtain’’ speech, ‘’There is nothing they [Russians] admire so much as strength ‘’. There is one cacaesthesia however that power cannot invalidate, and that is fear or strach. When strach threatens the very condition of vlast, then history has it that more coercion is employed. Some 60 to 70 years ago people like USSR’s Stalin, Yugosl...
What is the Custom Union and it is aims?The Eurasian Customs Union: background and originsThe significance of the ECU can be more fully understood through a broad overview of previous integration initiatives, which illustrate the patterns of continuity and, most importantly, change. The first and best-known initiative was the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). When it was set up in December 1991 it was more a vehicle for channelling the orderly disintegration of the Soviet Union than for a fresh engagement among its former constituents. Nonetheless, the focus soon shifted to bringing together the 12 newly independent republics around a new-style econom...
