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Central Asia the Caucasus CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Volume 15 Issue 2 2014 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies Published since 2000 Volume 15 Issue 2 2014 CA&CC Press® SWEDEN 1 Volume 15 FOUNDEDIssue 2 2014 AND PUBLISHEDCENTRAL ASIA AND THEBY CAUCASUS INSTITUTE INSTITUTE OF FOR CENTRAL ASIAN AND STRATEGIC STUDIES OF CAUCASIAN STUDIES THE CAUCASUS Registration number: 620720-0459 Registration number: M-770 State Administration for Ministry of Justice of Patents and Registration of Sweden Azerbaijan Republic PUBLISHING HOUSE CA&CC Press®. 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(U.S.A.) William FIERMAN Doctor of Political Science, Professor of Indiana University (U.S.A.) Paul GOBLE Senior Advisor, Voice of America (U.S.A.) Sergey GRETSKY Doctor, Chair of Central Asian Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State (U.S.A.) Xing GUANGCHENG Doctor of Political Science, professor, Deputy Director of the Institute for East European, Russian and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China) Alexander IGNATENKO President, Institute of Religion and Politics, Doctor of Philosophy, specialist in Islamic studies, leading expert of the Institute of Social Systems, Moscow State University, member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the Russian Federation President (Russian Federation) Ashurboi IMOMOV Ph.D. (Law), assistant professor, head of the Department of Constitutional Law, Tajik National University (Tajikistan) Lena JONSON Doctor, senior researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Sweden) Klara KHAFIZOVA Doctor of History, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies, professor at the International Relations and Foreign Policy Department, Kainar University (Kazakhstan) Zaynidin KURMANOV Doctor of History, professor, head of the Chair of International Relations, the Kyrgyz-Russian University (Kyrgyzstan) Jacob M. LANDAU Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) S. Neil MACFARLANE Professor, Director, Center for International Studies, The University of Oxford (Great Britain) Alexei MALASHENKO Doctor of History, professor, Scholar-in-Residence, Ethnicity and Nation-Building Program Co-Chair, The Carnegie Moscow Center (Russian Federation) Abbas MALEKI Doctor, Director General, International Institute for Caspian Studies (Iran) Akira Doctor, History of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Program Officer, The Sasakawa Peace MATSUNAGA Foundation (Japan) Roger N. McDERMOTT Affiliated Senior Analyst, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen (Denmark) Vitaly NAUMKIN Doctor of History, professor, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies of RF (Russian Federation) Yerengaip OMAROV Professor, Rector of Kainar University, President of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan) Vladimer PAPAVA Doctor of Economics, professor, Rector of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) S. Frederick STARR Professor, Chairman, The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The Johns Hopkins University (U.S.A.) The materials that appear in the journal do not necessarily reflect the Editorial Board and the Editors’ opinion Editorial Office: CA&CC Press AB Hubertusstigen 9. 97455 Luleå SWEDEN WEB ADDRESS: http://www.ca-c.org © Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2014 © CA&CC Press®, 2014 3 Volume 15 Issue 2 2014 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies Volume 15 Issue 2 2014 IN THIS ISSUE: GLOBALIZATION AND GEOPOLITICS Grant EASTERN PARTNERSHIP FROM PRAGUE TO VILNIUS. Mikaelian. WHAT WENT WRONG? ................................................................. 7 Rustem THE EURASIAN UNION CONCEPT: Zhanguzhin. POLITICAL OR CIVILIZATIONAL? ............................................... 20 Gouli THE IRANIAN-PAKISTANI FACTOR Yuldasheva. IN THE GEOPOLITICS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA .......... 32 Kubat Umurzakov, THE PROSPECTS OF Nazira KYRGYZSTAN’S ACCESSION TO THE CUSTOMS Tyulyundieva. UNION AND COMMON ECONOMIC SPACE .............................. 41 Sergey AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA: Minasian. ASYMMETRICAL RELATIONS .................................................... 51 Rasoul Rezae Faramani, UZBEKISTAN: A REGIONAL POWER Heydar IN CENTRAL ASIA? Moradi. REALITY OR DILEMMA? ............................................................. 59 ENERGY POLICY Sreemati CENTRAL ASIA-SOUTH ASIA ENERGY COOPERATION: Ganguli. QUEST FOR ENERGY SECURITY AS A DEPENDENCY VARIABLE .................................................. 73 4 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Volume 15 Issue 2 2014 Roman THE EU’S ENERGY PRIORITIES Melikian. IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS ................................................ 82 RELIGION IN SOCIETY Maxim RELIGIOUS PARTIES IN GEORGIA: Kirchanov. POLITICAL PLATFORMS AND IDEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS .................................................................. 94 Kanatbek THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF KYRGYZSTAN Murzakhalilov. IN 1991-2013: GROWING PAINS .............................................. 101 Zayniddin OFFICIAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Nabotov. IN TAJIKISTAN. IMAM E AZAM ABU HANIFA ISLAMIC INSTITUTE OF TAJIKISTAN: PAST AND PRESENT ................................................................ 112 ETHNICITIES AND ETHNIC RELATIONS Irina URGENT PROBLEMS OF Babich. THE WESTERN CIRCASSIANS IN THE 21ST CENTURY ............................................................ 121 Dosmir Uzbekov, Zaynidin UIGHURS AS POLITICAL ACTORS Kurmanov. IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC ..................................................... 132 NATION-BUILDING Saodat Olimova, PUBLIC OPINION, DEMOCRACY, Muzaffar AND AUTHORITARIANISM Olimov. IN CENTRAL ASIA ...................................................................... 142 Rashid THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Gani LEGITIMACY AND Abdullo. THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL PARTY OF TAJIKISTAN .......................................................................... 161 5 Volume 15 Issue 2 2014 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Special Feature section in the next three issues will discuss: Central Eurasia: Integration Processes Central Eurasia: Religion in the Sociopolitical Context Central Eurasia: Politics Today Contributors please use the following guidelines: — begin articles with a brief abstract of 300-500 words and keywords; — articles should be no less than 3,000 and no more than 6,000 words, including footnotes; — footnotes should be placed at the bottom of each page; if there are references to Internet resources, please give the author’s name, the name of the document, the website address, and the date it was made available, for example, available 2007-04-19; — quotations, names of authors and other information from English-language sources should be duplicated in brackets in the original language, that is, in English; — the article should be divided into sections, including an introduction and conclusion; — the author should include the following personal information: first name, last name, academic degree, place of work, position, city, country. 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