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Materialien
Eine
Kaukasus-Karte des State Departments [.jpg, 1,2MB]
Linksammlungen
Kaukasus-Links
bei dmoz.org
Links
der Hokkaido University
News
Radio
Free Europe: Caucasus Report
"Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a international
communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the
Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East, funded by the United States
Congress."
Aimed at bolstering "democratic development and market economies
in countries where peaceful evolution to civil societies is of vital
national interest to the U.S."
They offer report on the Caucasus as a whole as well as a country specific
news coverage.
Institute
for War and Peace Reporting
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR),
a NGO supporting local journalism in areas of conflict
It offers news coverage by journalists from the caucasus and maintains
a news ticker.
Central Asia, Caucasus
News
New York based EurasiaNet provides "information
and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments
in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia
(...)"
It offers daily news and seven departments for up to date information
on differnt topics concening the region.
reliefweb.int
is a project by the United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
it has a comprehensive news ticker for the RF/Chechnya
conflict
as well as one for the Southern
Caucasus region
Analysen
Jon
Hopkins University: Central Asia/Caucasus Analyst
"Central Asia - Caucasus Analyst" by
the The Central Asia- Caucasus Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies of the John Hopkins University, Washington
D.C.
Supposed to be "the primary institution in the Washington area
for the study of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Caspian Region".
It offers comprehensive analyses on the whole area. *recommended*
Central Asia and the Caucasus
journal by the Center for Political Studies (Sweden)
which offers access to recently published articles and studies.
Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik
"Deutsches Institut für Internationale
Politik und Sicherheit" der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
Deutscher "Think Tank" der den Deutschen Bundestag und die
Bundesregierung in Fragen der internationalen Politik sowie der Außen-
und Sicherheitspolitik berät
Auf den Seiten der Mitarbeiter der Forschungsgruppe Russische Föderation
und Neue Unabhängige Staaten (NUS) findet sich eine Auswahl ihrer
Veröffentlichungen
http://www.swp-berlin.org/fgs/fogruppe07.html
Zudem findet sich mit dem "Brennpunkt" Tschetschenien eine
Sammlung aktueller Texte und Analysen zu dem Thema
http://www.swp-berlin.org/produkte/bparchiv/tschetschenien1.htm
Harvard
University: Caspian Studies Program
The Caspian Studies Program at Harvard University
(CSP) with a focus on American national interests in the region.
Under "Publications" you´ll find the "Caspian Studies
Publication Series" as well as Policy Briefs and Newsletters.
Caspiancenter.org
Belgium based NGO, founded by a former chairman
of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Azerbaijani Parliament (...)
dedicated to "the examination of the economic, social and geopolitical
issues of the Caspian Sea Region." With a special focus on "analyzing
a wide-range of issues related to the development of the oil and energy
resources in the region and its impact on the economic, political and
social fabric of the whole Caspian area."
It offers several publications on the issues concerned as well as a
news section.
Caspian
Center for Defense Information: North Caucasus Conflict Center
Center for Defense Information, Washingtion
D.C. (CDI) is an independent monitor of defense and security policies.
"The Board of Directors and staff include retired military officers,
former U.S. government officials, and civilians expert in a wide range
of domestic and international security, defense and military arenas."
Their Crisis in the North Caucasus site offers analyses and reports
as well as a news ticker on Chechnya.
http://www.cdi.org/russia/
The Russia Weekly Project gathers articles on the russian view on the
burning issues of world politics
kafkas.org.tr
caucasus foundation. turkey based NGO engaged in
"activities for preserving and fostering socio-cultural relations
of the Caucasians living at diasporas or at Caucasus." It offers
comprehensive reports
and maintains the news agency "agency caucasus" with daily
updates in english.
Center
for Strategic and International Studies: Russia Eurasia Program
Caucasius Initiative of the Russia/Eurasia Programm
(http://www.csis.org/ruseura/)
of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) an US-based
think tank which "addresses the full spectrum of new challenges
to national and international security."
A few analyses on the current development in the region are offered
there.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
US based and "dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations
and promoting active international engagement by the United States."
The site of the Russian and Eurasian Programm offers a up to date analyses,
commentaries on the news form the region, book reviews and a collection
of recent articles on the region which appeared in the US media.
Free
University of Brussels
publications by the department of political science
of the free university of brussels. including access to recent issue
of the "Caucasian Regional Studies" journal and online books
like "Contested Borders in the Caucasus", by Bruno Coppieters
(ed.)
International
Institute for Caspian Studies (Teheran)
Texte
osze-jahresbericht
2000 zu georgien, abachsien und ossetien
dissertation
über den georgisch-ossetischen konflikt, jedoch hört die dokumentation
bereits mitte der 90er jahre auf, historische teile sehr interessant
gute
übersicht über die georgischen interessen und sichtweisen
am ende der 90er jahre
BBC
reporting on the autonomous republic of Ajaria
Akteure
IO´s
The OSCE maintains a Assistance Group to Chechnya
http://www.osce.org/publications/survey/survey12.htm
as well as a mission in Georgia
http://www.osce.org/georgia/
Furthermore the OSCE maintains two offices one on Baku, Azerbaidshan
http://www.osce.org/baku/
and another one in Yerevan, Armenia
http://www.osce.org/yerevan/
Another important institution is the Minsk Group whose
survey can be found at
http://www.osce.org/publications/survey/survey21.htm
It is supposed to facilliate a settlement of the lasting Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unomig/index.html
The UN Observer Mission to Georgia was established 1993 in order to
monitor the ceasefire
agreement between the Georgian and the Abkhaz
http://www.guuam.org/
Seite der GUUAM. Nicht wirklich informativ.
http://www.traceca.org/default.php
Homepage des TRACEA Projekts der EU.
Unter den Länderinfos findet man umfangreiche Artikelsammlungen
aus dem Marco Polo Magazin, einer Publikation des Marco-Polo-Instituts
(Mestre-Venezia/Italien).
Tschetschenien
http://www.chechenpress.info/english/
chechen news service
http://www.infocentre.ru/
official russian information center on chechnya
http://www.amina.com/
unofficial site of the Chechen Republic. Lots of texts, pictures and
even sounds from Chechnya.
Abchasien
http://www.abkhazia.ge/
"Legitimate Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia"
Seite der "Exilregierung" der vertriebenen Georgier in Tiflis.
http://www.apsny.org/
"Republic of Abkhazia"
Seite der Regierung der "Separatisten".
http://www.abkhazia-georgia.parliament.ge/
site of the Parliamentary Commission on Abkhazian Issues of the georgian
parliament.
due to a lack of funding no updates but a rich text source.
Georgien
http://www.mfa.gov.ge/policy.html
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
http://www.civil.ge/index_eng.shtml
Civil Georgia s an online magazine and information service based in
Georgia.
http://www.georgien-nachrichten.de/news.php
deutschsprachiger News-Service zu Georgien (Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft
etc.)
...und ein "Georgienshop" - alles was der Georgienfan zum
Glücklichsein braucht
Armenien/Nagorno Karabach
http://www.armeniaforeignministry.com/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia
http://www.nkr.am/eng/
NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.armeniaemb.org/ArmeniaUS/Index.htm
The section about US-armenian relations of the Embassy of the Republic
of Armenia in the USA.
http://www.aaainc.org/
The American Assembly of Armenia. Important pressure group who tries
to increase the awareness of the US-foreign-policy towards issues concerning
Armenia.
http://www.armenianow.com/
"ArmeniaNow.com is published by New Times Journalism Training Center,
a Non-Governmental Organization in Yerevan, Armenia."
Azerbaidschan
http://www.president.az/
beside of personal info on President Heydar Aliyev you´ll get
lot´s of stuff about Azerbaijan itself and its foreign relations.
http://www.karabakh.org/
Azeri site on NK which tries to counter "Armenian propaganda machine".
Türkei
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/grupa/default.htm
The Ministry of Foreign affairs of the Republic of Turkey displays there
-beside others- its policy frameworks
for the caucasus region and offers a synposis of the turkish foreign
policy in general.
http://www.avsam.org/english/
The Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) is a turkish policy
think tank.
The site of the Caucasus Studies Desk remains to be filled with substantial
information but
nevertheless you´ll find some under "analyses".
USA
State Department
on Nagorno Karabakh: http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rt/snec/c7560.htm
on Abkhazia: http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rt/snec/c7561.htm
on U.S.-Russia Relationship: http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/rs/c5739.htm
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