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About the Authors FINAL About the authors Najia Badykova (Turkmenistan) is Chief of the Foreign Economic Relations Department at the National Institute of Statistics and Forecasting (Ashkhabad). Her recent publications include Iran i Perspektivy Eksporta iz Kaspiyskogo Regiona [Iran and prospects of gas export from the Caspian region], Occasional Papers no. 61 (Slavic Research Centre/Hokkaido University: Sapporo, Tokyo, 1998); and The Opportunities for Attracting Japanese Capital in Turkmenistan and Other Central Asian Countries (Institute of Developing Economies: Tokyo, 1999). Sabit Bagirov (Azerbaijan) is President of the Center for Political and Economic Research. He is also President of the Entrepreneurship Development Foundation which aims to create a favourable business environment in Azerbaijan. Formerly he was the President of Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company (SOCAR). He has published many articles on energy and political issues in English, Azeri and Russian, and is currently working on a book entitled Azerbaijan in Transition. Gennady Chufrin (Russia), Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is Project Leader of the SIPRI project on the Security of the Caspian Sea Region. He recently published ‘The Caspian Sea Basin: the security dimensions’, SIPRI Yearbook 1999: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1999): and ‘Russia: separatism and conflicts in the North Caucasus’, SIPRI Yearbook 2000. He also edited Russia and Asia–Pacific Security (SIPRI, 1999); and Russia and Asia: The Emerging Security Agenda (Oxford University Press, 1999). Mark Eaton (Canada) is Research Assistant for the SIPRI project on the Security of the Caspian Sea Region. Murad Esenov (Sweden) is Director of the Central Asia and the Caucasus Information and Analysis Center and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Central Asia and the Caucasus (Luleå, Sweden). His recent publications include Political Islam and Conflicts in Russia and Central Asia (co-edited with Lena Jonson) (Swedish Institute of Inter- national Affairs: Stockholm, 1999); Chechnya: The International Community and Strategies for Peace and Stability (co-edited with Lena Jonson) (Swedish Institute of International Affairs: Stockholm, 2000); and ‘“The Turkmen model of democracy”: specific features’, Central Asia and the Caucasus, no. 2 (2000). Amy Myers Jaffe (USA) is Senior Energy Advisor and Program Co-ordinator for the Energy Forum of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University (Houston, Texas). Her recent publications include ‘The myth of the Caspian “Great Game”: the real geopolitics of energy’, co-author with R. Manning, Survival, vol. 40, no. 4 (winter 1998); (with R. Manning), ‘The shocks of a world of cheap oil’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 79, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000); and (with Martha Brill Olcott) ‘The geopolitics of Caspian energy’, eds E. Kalyuzhnova and D. Lynch, The Euro-Asian World: A Period of Transition (St Martins Press: New York, 2000). ABOUT THE AUTHORS 359 Lena Jonson (Sweden) is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. She has published extensively in the field of Russian foreign and security policies. Among her latest publications are Russia and Central Asia: A New Web of Relations (Royal Institute of International Affairs: London, 1998); The Tajik War: A Challenge to Russian Policy (RIIA: London, 1998); Keeping the Peace on CIS Territory: The Evolution of Russian Policy (RIIA: London, 1999); and Central Asian Security: The New International Context, co-edited together with Roy Allison (Brookings Institution/RIIA: Washington, DC, and London, 2001). Ali Karaosmanoglu (Turkey) is Chairman of the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara. His recent publications include ‘NATO enlargement and the South’, Security Dialogue, vol. 30, no. 2 (June 1999); and ‘The evolution of the national security culture and the military in Turkey’, Journal of International Affairs, vol. 54, no. 1 (fall 2000). Farkhad Khamraev (Uzbekistan) is Assistant Professor at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent. He was previously Head of Department at the Division of Political Analysis in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan. His recent publications include ‘Tsentral’naya Aziya: problemy razdelyonnykh natsii’ [Central Asia: problems of divided nations] in Gosudarstvo i Obshchestvo v Stranakh Post-Sovetskogo Vostoka [State and society in the post-Soviet oriental countries] (Almaty, 1999); and ‘Afghanskiy uzel i problemy bezopasnosti Tsentral’noy Azii’ [The Afghan knot and Central Asian security problems], Vostok (Moscow), no. 1 (2000). Alexander Krylov (Russia) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of over 70 publications, including Separatizm v Stranakh Vostoka [Separatism in the countries of the East] (GRVL: Moscow, 1992); and Post-Sovetskaya Abkhaziya: Traditsii, Religii, Lyudi [Post-Soviet Abkhazia: traditions, religions, people] (OOAgent: Moscow, 1999). Aleksei Malashenko (Russia) is Scholar-in-Residence, Ethnicity and Nation-Building Program Co-Chair, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Carnegie Moscow Center). He is the author of numerous monographs on contemporary Islam and the Muslim mentality. His recent publications include Islamskoye Vozrozhdeniye v Sovremennoy Rossii [Islamic renaissance in Modern Russia] (Moscow Carnegie Center: Moscow, 1998); and (co-editor with Martha Brill Olcott) Faktory Etno- konfessional’noy Samobytnosti v Postsovetskom Obshchestve [Factors of ethno- confessional identification in post-Soviet society] (Moscow Carnegie Center: Moscow, 1998). Dina Malysheva (Russia) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World Econ- omy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her recent publications include ‘Rossiya i Zakavkaz’ye: realii nezavisimosti i novoye partnyorstvo’ [Russia and the trans-Caucasus: realities of independence and the new partnership] (co-author) (Finstatinform: Moscow, 2000); and ‘Iran i problemy regional’noy bezopasnosti Zakavkaz’ya’ (Iran and problems of regional security of the trans-Caucasus’, in Blizhniy Vostok i Sovremennost’, issue no. 9 (Institute of Israel and Middle East, Moscow, 2000). 360 THE S EC UR ITY OF THE C AS P IAN S EA R EGION Mehrdad Mohsenin (Iran) is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) in Tehran. His recent publications include ‘Regional role of Iran in the development of Central Asia’, Amu Darya, vol. 2, no. 1 (1997); and ‘Pipeline options for exporting oil and gas from the Caspian basin’, Relazioni Internazionali (Institute for the Study of International Politics, Milan), no. 47 (Nov./Dec. 1998). Vitaly Naumkin (Russia) is President of the Russian Centre for Strategic Research and International Studies, Head of the Arabic Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies (IOS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Vostok, published by the Russian Academy of Sciences. His recent publications include Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union (Moscow, 1997); and ‘The emerging geopolitical balance in Central Asia: a Russian view’, ed. G. Chufrin, SIPRI, Russia and Asia: The Emerging Security Agenda (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1999). John Roberts (UK) is a consultant specializing in the relationship between energy, economic development and politics and a senior partner in Methinks Ltd (Edinburgh), a consultancy focusing on Central Asian, Middle Eastern and development issues. He has written and lectured extensively on Caspian energy issues, notably pipelines. His recent publications include Visions and Mirages: The Middle East in a New Era (Mainstream: Edinburgh, 1995) and Caspian Pipelines (RIIA: London, 1996). Alexander Rondeli (Georgia) is Director of the Foreign Policy Research and Analysis Center at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Formerly he was Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations at Tbilisi State University. His recent publications include ‘The nature of the security problematique in the CIS’, eds N. MacFarlane and O. Thränert, Balancing Hegemony: The OSCE in the CIS (Centre for International Relations, Queens University: Kingston, Ontario, 1997); Georgia: Foreign Policy and National Security Priorities, Discussion Paper Series no. 3 (UNDP Country Office in Georgia: Tbilisi, 1998); and ‘Security problems in the Caucasus’, eds W. Asher and N. Mirovitskaia, The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 2000). Konstantin Syroezhkin (Kazakhstan) is Political Observer for Continent Magazine (Almaty) and was formerly Deputy Director of the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies (KISS). His recent publications include Natsional’no-Gosudarstvennoye Stroitel’stvo v KNR: Teoriya i Praktika [Nation-state building in the PRC: theory and practice] (Almaty, 1998); ‘Politika Rossii v Tsentral’noy Azii i Kazakhstanskaya perspektiva’ [The policy of Russia in Central Asia and Kazakhstan’s perspective], Kazakhstan Spectrum, no. 2 (1999); and ‘Vzaimootnosheniya Kitaya s gosudarstvami Tsentral’noy Azii’ [The relations of China with the states of Central Asia], Kazakhstan Spectrum, no. 2 (2000). Igor Zonn (Russia) is Professor of Geography, member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and Editor-in-Chief of the Caspian Sea Bulletin. His recent publica- tions include Kaspiy: Illyuzii i Real’nost’ [The Caspian: myths and realities] (Korkis: Moscow, 1999); and Trista Let na Kaspii [Three centuries in the Caspian] (Edel-M: Moscow, 2000)..
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