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Promises and Pitfalls:  Reflections on Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Future

Promises and Pitfalls: Reflections on Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Future

Last year, Kazakhstan held a nationwide referendum on the question of building a...

Azerbaijan-Israel Partnership Powers Up: Landmark Gas Agreement Signals Deeper Energy Ties

Azerbaijan-Israel Partnership Powers Up: Landmark Gas Agreement Signals Deeper Energy Ties

In a significant step for Azerbaijan-Israel energy cooperation, Azerbaijan’s sta...

LIVE MAP of Russian Refineries Hit:  Ukrainian Drone Strikes Boost Caspian Energy

LIVE MAP of Russian Refineries Hit: Ukrainian Drone Strikes Boost Caspian Energy

Caspian Policy Center’s Live Map of Russian Refineries documents 61 attacks acro...

Atomic Risks and Rewards: Viewpoints from Three Experts

Atomic Risks and Rewards: Viewpoints from Three Experts

With plans for a nuclear reactor well underway in Kazakhstan, it is important th...

Visualizing Caspian Energy

Visualizing Caspian Energy

Ali Dayar

03/06/2025

Caspian energy has gained unprecedented relevance in global markets. The disrupt...

War Above and Fuel Below: Ukraine’s Drone Strategy Meets the Caspian Energy Pivot

War Above and Fuel Below: Ukraine’s Drone Strategy Meets the Caspian Energy Pivot

Ukraine launched 81 drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and storage depots a...

Caspian Energy Reimagined: Turkmenistan and Türkiye’s Landmark Gas Deal

Caspian Energy Reimagined: Turkmenistan and Türkiye’s Landmark Gas Deal

Ali Dayar

02/24/2025

After nearly three decades of negotiations, Turkmenistan and Türkiye have finall...

Risk and Reward: How China’s State Firms Outmaneuver Rivals in Tajikistan

Risk and Reward: How China’s State Firms Outmaneuver Rivals in Tajikistan

Ali Dayar

02/20/2025

Tajikistan’s Bokhtar project, a high-risk/high-reward venture to develop new hyd...

From the Caspian to the Levant:  Azerbaijan Enters Israel’s Gas Market

From the Caspian to the Levant: Azerbaijan Enters Israel’s Gas Market

Azerbaijan's state-owned energy company SOCAR has made its first Mediterranean ....

Implementing the K-Silk Road: South Korea’s Growing Commitment to Central Asia

Implementing the K-Silk Road: South Korea’s Growing Commitment to Central Asia

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, sanctions and a costly war effort have we...

New Years Addresses: The Caspian Region in 2025

New Years Addresses: The Caspian Region in 2025

In much of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, New Year’s Eve remains the central holida...

COP 29: The Caspian COP

COP 29: The Caspian COP

David Moran

12/19/2024

COP Climate Summits are exhausting events. The stakes are high and most COPs fal...

Caspian Green Energy Corridor Moves Forward

Caspian Green Energy Corridor Moves Forward

With COP 29 underway, the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan h...

Green Energy Minerals: Strategic Opportunities in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Ukraine

Green Energy Minerals: Strategic Opportunities in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Ukraine

This is the second installment in the Caspian Policy Center’s Strategic Minerals...

Across Central Asia, Governments Bet Big on Nuclear Power

Across Central Asia, Governments Bet Big on Nuclear Power

In the winter of 2022 - 2023, much of Central Asia experienced dire cold and pow...

Central Asia's Nuclear Ambitions and a Sustainable Energy Future

Central Asia's Nuclear Ambitions and a Sustainable Energy Future

Alongside renewables, energy efficiency, and other innovative technologies ......

Azerbaijan and Türkiye Solidify Key Energy Alliance with Turkmen Gas Deal

Azerbaijan and Türkiye Solidify Key Energy Alliance with Turkmen Gas Deal

Azerbaijan and Türkiye struck a major energy deal in May, with state-owned giant...

Kazakh Uranium: A Hot Prospect as U.S. Targets Russian Nuclear Fuel

Kazakh Uranium: A Hot Prospect as U.S. Targets Russian Nuclear Fuel

Charley Ward

05/11/2024

A special report as the United States moves to ban imports of enriched Russian U...

Tajikistan’s Efforts to Build Out its Energy System Reflects Geopolitical Competition

Tajikistan’s Efforts to Build Out its Energy System Reflects Geopolitical Competition

Last September, Tajikistan’s Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Daler Juma,...