Home | Site Index | FAQs | Contact | RSS  | Podcast

• Center for Preventive Action: Ferghana Valley Working Group

  Directors:	Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University Nancy Lubin
  Chair:	Sam Nunn

  January 1, 1997 - June 1, 2000

  The Ferghana Valley region of Central Asia cuts across the three newly independent states of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is one of the most densely populated and volatile areas of the former Soviet Union. Regional tensions arise from ethnic, religious, environmental, and economic problems. The CPA Ferghana Valley Working Group was formed to assess the potential for future conflict in the region and to suggest ways to move the region in the direction of economic and political reform and stability. A delegation of the working group visited the region in March 1997, met with a wide range of actors, and has prepared a report based on its findings. The report, "Stabilizing the Ferghana Valley: Promoting Peace in Central Asia," was released in November 1999 at a conference in Washington, D.C., cosponsored with the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation.

  
  

   

  • Publications  
  • Meetings  

   

  Publications

  

  December 1999

  Calming the Ferghana Valley

  This report assesses the potential for conflict in Central Asia through the prism of one of its most volatile areas, the Ferghana Valley.

   

  to top

   

  Meetings

  Ferghana Valley Conference

  General Meeting

  
  November 17, 1999

  Related Project: Center for Preventive Action: Ferghana Valley Working Group

  Presider:	Mark Malloch Brown

   

  Working Group on the Ferghana Valley Region of Central Asia—June 27, 1997

  General Meeting

  
  June 27, 1997

  Related Project: Center for Preventive Action: Ferghana Valley Working Group

  Presider:	Sam Nunn
  Speaker:	Nancy Lubin, JNA Associates

   

  Working Group on the Ferghana Valley Region of Central Asia—March 20, 1997

  General Meeting

  
  March 20, 1997

  Related Project: Center for Preventive Action: Ferghana Valley Working Group

  Presider:	Dr. Barnett R. Rubin
  Speaker:	Nancy Lubin, JNA Associates

  to top

• 

  New CFR Books

  

  In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.

  

  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  

  In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.

  Complete list of CFR Books.

  

  

  New Council Special Reports

  Global FDI Policy

  After two decades of liberalization, many countries around the world are adopting new restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) that could retard continued progress. The authors make recommendations for correcting this protectionist drift by proposing guidelines for how countries can better regulate FDI yet still reap its economic benefits.

  Dealing with Damascus

  In this Council Special Report, the authors make a strong case that the Bush administration’s policy of diplomatic isolation of Syria is not serving U.S. interests, and offer informed history and thoughtful analysis of the country and its external behavior.

  Complete list of Council Special Reports.

  

  

  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  Gary Samore
  Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1-212-434-9627
  gsamore@cfr.org

  Sebastian Mallaby
  Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
  smallaby@cfr.org

  Janine Hill
  Deputy Director of Studies Administration
  +1-212-434-9753
  jhill@cfr.org

   

  

  

  The Think Tank

  The David Rockefeller Studies Program

  The David Rockefeller Studies Program is the Council’s “think tank.” Its work is integral to achieving the Council’s goal of contributing to the foreign policy debate. Fellows in the Studies Program do this by researching, writing, and commenting on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.

  • Experts
  • Projects

   

  

•  

By Region  |  By Issue  |  By Publication Type  |  The Think Tank  |  For The Media  |  For Educators  |  About CFR

Home  |  Site Index  |  FAQ  |  Contact  |  RSS  |  Podcast

Copyright 2008 by the Council on Foreign Relations. All Rights Reserved.