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Pakistan's Troubled Frontier
April 6, 2009 01:39 PM
First demarcated in 1893 by British diplomat Sir Mortimer Durand, the northwest frontier was created when the “Durand Line” imposed an artificial border between the tribal Pashtun communities of moder...
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Russia's Vision in Crisis for CSTO Military Forces
June 30, 2009
The Gazprom-Hungarian Gas Scam
July 1, 2009
China to Increase Gas Imports From "Economically Complementary" Turkmenistan
June 30, 2009
Ukrainian Coalition Nears Collapse
July 1, 2009
Turkmenistan Pressured by Gazprom's Halt on Turkmen Gas Imports
June 30, 2009
On June 14, after the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Moscow formally created its new Collective Operational Reaction Forces (CORF), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hailed this achievement as a...
A burst of sunshine has finally been shed on the little known story of how a once obscure Ukrainian entrepreneur, Dmytro Firtash, suspected of links to Russian organized crime, and his unknown partners in a Cypriot holding...
Chinese demand is voracious for Turkmen gas. Russia's import stoppage (see above article) can only strengthen Turkmenistan's motivation to start exports to China on schedule in early 2010. With Russia demonstrating its...
The Ukrainian parliament on June 23 scheduled the next presidential election for January 17, 2010. Although the motion was passed by an overwhelming majority of 399 votes in the 450-seat unicameral chamber, it came as a result of...
Russia's suspension of gas deliveries via Ukraine to Europe last January was a hard lesson (not the first of this type) to consumer countries. Moscow's prolonged and continuing stoppage of gas purchases from Turkmenistan (also...
A Profile of the Late Qari Zainuddin Mahsud –Waziristan Militant and Opponent of Baitullah Mahsud
Pakistan’s military is facing tough resistance in its battle against the Taliban in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal agency along the border with Afghanistan. The military has been pounding Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud’s...
Uncertainty Surrounds the Arrest of al-Qaeda Financier in Yemen
July 2, 2009
Yemeni authorities announced in mid-June that they had arrested a Saudi citizen named Hassan bin Hussein Alwan in the province of Marib, saying that he is the biggest financier of al-Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, as well as...
Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Financial Network Targets India from the Gulf States
July 2, 2009
An impending threat from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist group has prompted security establishments to raise an alert along India’s western sea-coast. According to intelligence sources, the LeT’s marine wing is...
Jihadis Debate Attacks on Western Interests and U.N. Peacekeepers
July 2, 2009
Jihadi internet forums recently discussed the religious permissibility of attacking Western interests in the Islamic world. Many jihadi forum members gave their opinions on a posting entitled “Do you endorse attacking Western...
Turkey Adopts Civil-Military Reform
July 2, 2009
The Turkish Parliament's adoption of an amendment made during a late night debate on June 25 to the Code on Criminal Procedure (CMK), which has paved the way for the trial of military personnel in civil courts, marks an important...
Rights Activists Paint Grim Picture of North Caucasus Situation
July 2, 2009
Amnesty International said in a report released on June 30 that ongoing human rights abuses in Chechnya, Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus give the lie to claims made by the Russia authorities that the region is...
Reports
The Changing Face of Islamist Militancy in North Africa
March 17, 2009
The Changing Face of Islamist Militancy in North Africa contains the proceedings of a panel from Jamestown's December 2008 conference entitled "The Expanding Geography of Militant Jihad."
The Impact of the Russia-Georgia War on the South Caucasus Transportation Corridor
March 3, 2009
*Click here to view the full PDF of this report
Executive SummaryThe August 2008 war in the Caucasus revealed the new strategic realities that have emerged in the Black Sea / Caspian Region in recent years. These realities...
Events
Breaking News:
China in Africa
May 20, 2009 05:58 PMFeaturing Keynote Speaker Victor Gao
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The National Press Club, Grand Ball Room
529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
Media Appearances
Jamestown Cited in United Press International
July 1, 2009The Jamestown Foundation is cited in "Turkmenistan center of new gas war?", United Press International, July 1, 2009.
L.C. Russell Hsiao in BBC
June 26, 2009Jamestown's China Brief Editor L.C. Russell Hsiao is quoted in the article "Vietnam’s trump card in the South China Sea disputes?", BBC Vietnamese, June 26, 2009.
Press Releases
Jamestown Welcomes New Board Members
December 2, 2008General Carlton Fulford (Ret.), Bruce Hoffman, and Kathleen Troia McFarland Join Jamestown Foundation Board
Jamestown Releases a New Occasional Paper
October 26, 2007
“Russia’s Race for the Arctic and the New Geopolitics of the North Pole.”