The following are the most popular articles at Jamestown.org for the past 2 weeks:

How China Got There First: Beijing’s Unique Path to ASBM Development and Deployment
June 7, 2013
China’s deployment of the world’s first operational anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) has just been confirmed with unprecedented clarity by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). The ASBM’s development path was unusual in many respects, but may increasingly represent the shape of things to come for...
Category: China Brief, Military/Security, Foreign Policy, China and the Asia-Pacific, Russia
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The South China Sea Dispute (Part One): Negative Trends Continue in 2013
June 7, 2013
From January through May, the South China Sea dispute continued to trend in a negative direction. Consistent with the pattern of developments over the past several years, the dispute continued to be characterized by an action-reaction dynamic in which attempts by one of the claimants—most notably,...
Category: China Brief, Home Page, China and the Asia-Pacific, Southeast Asia, China
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Latest Killing of Chechen Separatist Envoy in Turkey Points to Russia
June 6, 2013
Against the background of the unfolding situation around the Chechen brothers accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the killing in Florida of another Chechen connected to the brothers, Ibragim Todashev, the killing of a Chechen in Turkey...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, North Caucasus Analysis, Home Page, Domestic/Social, The Caucasus, North Caucasus , Turkey
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Cossack Separatism Again on the Rise
June 4, 2013
Sixty-eight years ago this week, the Western allies forcibly returned to the Soviet Union more than 2,000 Cossacks who fought on the German side against Stalin during World War II. Some were executed and even more died in Soviet uranium mines. But Cossacks continue to remember what they call thiss...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Featured, Domestic/Social, Russia
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China as Tajikistan’s ‘Lender of Last Resort’
June 7, 2013
On May 19–20, the President of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon paid a state visit to China where he had talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and with several heads of Chinese state corporations. Rahmon’s official visit resulted in several multi-million-dollar investment projects in the...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Foreign Policy, Economics, Central Asia, Tajikistan , China
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Putin Believes US-Russian Relations Are Dominated by Zero-Sum Game
June 13, 2013
June 12 is Russia Day, a national holiday traditionally celebrated by awarding Russia’s annual State Prizes in the fields of science, technology, the arts and literature, followed by a lavish reception in the Kremlin. This Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin awarded the State Prize to Sergei...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Featured, Domestic/Social, Foreign Policy, Russia
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Chris Zambelis interviewed on Fair Observer
June 11, 2013
Chris Zambelis participated in a long interview on the geopolitics underlying India and China's inroads into the Middle East for Fair Observer. Zambelis was interviewed by fellow Jamestown analyst Nick Heras.
Category: Media Appearance
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Georgia’s Reset and Russia’s Response (Part One)
June 11, 2013
From its first days in power, the Georgian Dream coalition government under Bidzina Ivanishvili unilaterally set out to improve relations with Russia, and it has taken a series of unilateral steps toward that end. The government’s initiative stems from domestic, regional, and global...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Vlad’s Corner, Home Page, Featured, Domestic/Social, The Caucasus, South Caucasus , Georgia
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Moscow Decides to Implement Chechen Blueprint in Dagestan
June 7, 2013
Dagestan is interesting not only because it is the largest republic of the region, but also because it has by far the strongest Salafist armed resistance in the North Caucasus. That is why every political event in this North Caucasian republic becomes an important topic of discussion across the...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, North Caucasus Analysis, Home Page, Domestic/Social, The Caucasus, North Caucasus , Russia
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Scandal in Scandinavia: Gulnara Karimova’s Shrinking Prospects to Become Next Uzbek President
June 14, 2013
The issue of power succession in Uzbekistan gained momentum as a serious investigation has been launched in Sweden against Gulnara Karimova, the 40-year old daughter of Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov. She is suspected of receiving a $320 million bribe, paid to her company Takilant Limited in...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Domestic/Social, Central Asia, Uzbekistan
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