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Central Asia the Caucasus CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies Published since 2000 Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 CA&CC Press® SWEDEN 1 Volume 11 IssueFOUNDED 4 2010 AND PUBLISHEDCENTRAL ASIA AND BYTHE 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.) Sergei 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) 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 Dr., Director General, International Institute for Caspian Studies (Iran) Akira Ph.D., History of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Program Officer, The Sasakawa Peace MATSUNAGA Foundation (Japan) Roger N. McDERMOTT Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) 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, Corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Senior Fellow of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (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, 2010 © CA&CC Press®, 3 2010 Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 IN THIS ISSUE: ENERGY POLICY Arbakhan OIL AND RUSSIA’S POLITICAL REGIME Magomedov. AT STAGES IN POST-COMMUNIST DEVELOPMENT: CONTINUITY OF RENT SEEKING WITHIN THE RAW-MATERIAL PARADIGM …….…………………………. 7 REGIONAL POLITICS Abdolreza Farajirad, RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD Asaad THE CAUCASUS UNDER Khezerzade. VLADIMIR PUTIN ………......................…………………………. 20 4 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 Murat U.S. CENTRAL ASIAN POLICY Laumulin. UNDER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ………........…...............……………………. 41 David SOME OF Babayan. CHINA’S GEOPOLITICAL VECTORS IN CENTRAL ASIA ………..............…………………………. 54 Vladimir Paramonov, Alexey Strokov, Oleg Stolpovskiy. CHINA IN CENTRAL ASIA ………........…………………………. 66 Vladimir U.S. MIDDLE Karyakin. EASTERN POLICY: NEW APPROACHES AND OLD PROBLEMS ……….....................…………………………. 79 Maya TURKEY AND SECURITY Manchkhashvili. IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS: THE CAUCASUS STABILITY AND COOPERATION PLATFORM ………....……………………. 87 MASS MEDIA Eric Freedman, TWO DECADES OF REPRESSION: Richard THE PERSISTENCE OF Shafer, AUTHORITARIAN CONTROLS ON Slavka THE MASS MEDIA Antonova. IN CENTRAL ASIA ………........…………………………. 94 Navbahor Imamova, Richard CONTROVERSY ON THE AIRWAVES: Schaefer, PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, Richard PORTRAYING AMERICA, Shafer, AND PUBLIC OUTREACH THROUGH Eric THE VOICE OF Freedman. AMERICA UZBEK SERVICE ……........…………………………. 110 5 Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS REGIONAL STUDIES Ashot POST-SOVIET SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP: Alexanyan. THE POLITICAL AND CIVILIARCHIC DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ………........…………………………. 126 Contents of the Central Asia and the Caucasus Issues Volume 11, 2010 ……….……. 139 FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Special Feature section in the next issue will discuss: n Central Eurasia: Politics Today n Central Eurasia: Religion in the Sociopolitical Context n Energy Policy and Energy Projects in Central Eurasia 6 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 ENERGY POLICY OIL AND RUSSIA’S POLITICAL REGIME AT STAGES IN POST-COMMUNIST DEVELOPMENT: CONTINUITY OF RENT SEEKING WITHIN THE RAW-MATERIAL PARADIGM Arbakhan MAGOMEDOV D.Sc. (Political Science), Professor, Head of the Public Relations Chair, Ulyanovsk State University (Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation) Introduction n 28 April, 2010, during a business trip to It should be said that the rent-seeking angle Astrakhan on the Caspian, Russian Prime throws the most typical features of Russia’s po- O Minister Vladimir Putin personally pushed litical regime into bolder relief. the button to start the region’s first drilling unit Here I have examined the rent-seeking phe- on the Korchagin platform. This moved Russia nomenon of Russian power at various stages of offshore in its sector of the Caspian and confirmed post-communist development in the oil sphere, that the Kremlin was as determined as ever to the country’s key resource, and the correlation remain within the raw-material paradigm; the between the raw-material opportunities and the nature of the political stimuli in the corridors of principles of political organization in Putin’s power became much clearer. Russia. 7 Volume 11 Issue 4 2010 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Preamble: Oil and Russia In the last fifteen years, the oil and gas factor has been responsible for impressive economic and political changes in Russia. Put in a nutshell, they can be described as follows: 1. Russia’s
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