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THE U.S.-WESTERN EUROPE-RUSSIA TRIANGLE AND CENTRAL ASIASevara SHARAPOVA
Sevara Sharapova, Ph.D. (Political Science), assistant professor, Political Science and Law Department, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Interests of the major (if not all) players involved in international relations are concentrated in Central Asia. In the wake of the terrorist acts in the United States this has become even more obvious. The U.S. that has allied with European countries is one of such players. On the one hand, these key allies strengthen Washington’s positions, on the other, they prevent it from going to extremes.
The latest events worldwide have confirmed this. Numerous publications in the European and American press show that there are two dominating trends in the relations between the United States and Western Europe. On the one hand, the European allies are embarrassed by a lack of former interest from the United States that crops up in criticism of Washington’s position and its one-sided approach. At the same time, the Europeans are doing their best to rivet American attention to the humanitarian, human rights and the related issues in the relations between the United States and its new allies. Despite a certain share of coolness, the European countries still preserved their importance for the U.S. amply demonstrated by the events around the U.N. resolution on Iraq.
This ambiguity is fully displayed in Central Asia, a specific and even unique region. An analysis of the U.S. allied relations there reveals the faults that should be corrected in the course of time and that make it possible to predict the future of this cooperation. At the same time, Russia that spent much time trying to identify itself as a Western or Eastern country has stepped up its activeness in Central Asia. Before that, during the Kosovo crisis, Moscow and the West found themselves on the opposite sides of the barricade. Today, Washington has discovered that as an ally in Central Asia Moscow outweighs its………………..
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