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CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Volume 14 Issue 3 2013 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies Published since 2000 Volume 14 Issue 3 2013 CA&CC Press® SWEDEN 1 Volume 14 FOUNDEDIssue 3 2013 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) 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, 2013 © CA&CC Press®, 2013 3 Volume 14 Issue 3 2013 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies Volume 14 Issue 3 2013 IN THIS ISSUE: AFGHANISTAN 2014 Murat CENTRAL ASIA: Laumulin. SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF POST-2014 AFGHANISTAN ............................................................ 7 Konstantin PROBLEM-2014 AND Syroezhkin. CENTRAL ASIAN SECURITY ....................................................... 21 Mohammad Darkhor, Saeed Kafi, Seyed Hadi UNITED STATES STRATEGY AND Sadati. AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY ................................................. 33 Thomas THE ROAD THROUGH QATAR, A DEAD END? Ruttig. Opportunities Promoting and Hurdles Preventing a Political Solution in Afghanistan that Includes the Taliban ........................................ 42 Pulat BORDER SECURITY OF Makkambaev. THE CENTRAL ASIAN STATES ON THE EVE OF THE ISAF PULLOUT ............................................... 53 Sergey AFGHANISTAN 2014: Masaulov. UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN CENTRAL ASIA ......................... 65 4 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Volume 14 Issue 3 2013 Rakhmatullo PASHTUNS Abdulloev. IN AFGHANISTAN’S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE ............................ 74 Kosimsho THE PAKISTANI FACTOR Iskandarov. IN THE AFGHAN CONFLICT ........................................................ 83 Guli IRANIAN-AFGHAN RELATIONS ON Yuldasheva. THE THRESHOLD OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN .............................. 97 REGIONAL ECONOMIES Kamilla SOME ASPECTS OF Sheriazdanova, INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGULATION OF Karlygash ECONOMIC COOPERATION Kondykerova. IN THE SCO ................................................................................ 109 Viktor THE CURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION Budkin. IN THE CIS REGION: BETWEEN CRISES? ............................... 116 Khojimakhmad COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF Umarov. TAJIKISTAN’S TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA ................................................................... 128 Ashot Markosian, Boris ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF Avakian, COUNTRIES IN A STATE OF Elianora ARMED CONFLICT: Matevosian. AN ARMENIAN CASE-STUDY .................................................... 138 REGIONAL POLITICS Mikhail UZBEKISTAN-TURKMENISTAN: Agajanian. A POLE OF MULTIVECTORAL POLICY IN CENTRAL ASIA ....................................................................... 159 Rashid IRANIAN PRESIDENTS AND Abdullo. TAJIK-IRANIAN RELATIONS ...................................................... 167 5 Volume 14 Issue 3 2013 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Special Feature section in the next three issues will discuss: The Ferghana Valley: Conflict Potential and Development Prospects Central Eurasia: Politics Today Central Eurasia: Religion in the Sociopolitical Context 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
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    Page 4 November 08, 2018 (1) Presidential Poll... Afghan News: “I plan to contest the dence on foreign aid and put a ma- when talking about Jennie’s com- 10,000 horticulturists were engaged in pomegranate farming and har- resigned from their posts. Presidential Election and the cre- jor dent in the illicit opium trade, the ments. vests in Kandahar. A reliable source wishing anonym- ation of our team is being mulled main revenue source of the Taliban “How could you do anything but He said the Ministry of Agriculture, ity said four electoral alliances had over.” insurgency. not try and do your best on Election Irrigation and Livestock created been formed so far. Anwarul Haq Ahadi, head of the The sanctions exception granted to Day? To sit around and mope or not new pomegranate gardens on 250 Mohammad Ashraf Ghani with Atta New Afghanistan National Front, the Chabahar project aims to further focus is something that would be acres of land in Kandahar this year. Mohammad Noor and Sarwar Dan- said: “I will try to be an independent US ties with Afghanistan and India unrelateable to Brent,” he said. (Pajhwok) ish as his deputies would be sup- candidate but if the decision to sup- “as we execute a policy of maxi- Thousands of miles away in Af- ported by Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, port another candidate would be mum pressure to change the Iranian ghanistan, Rahmani told VOA he (10) 7 Police Personnel... taken later.” regime’s destabilizing policies in hoped the Taliban would see his let- Mohammad Karim Khalili, Sib- Mohibullah Mohib said two securi- Syed Jawad Hussiani, spokesman the region and beyond,” the State ter and realize that the “bonds” of ghatullah Mujadidi, Pir Syed Hamid ty forces were killed and two others for the New Afghanistan National Department spokesman said.