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COOPERATION BETWEEN RUSSIA, THE U.S. AND KYRGYZSTAN IN NEW GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTKaana AIDARKUL
Mels OMAROV
Kaana Aidarkul, D.Sc. (Hist.), professor, head of the department of sociopolitical sciences, Academy of the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
Mels Omarov, Ph.D. (Hist.), chief expert, International Institute of Strategic Research at the President of Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
The multipolar world and the mushrooming transnational and transborder threats created a fundamentally new security system in Eurasia. The old relationships based on military components have been replaced with a more flexible and dynamic world with many centers of power. This forced the new independent Central Asian states to identify their foreign policy priorities and the most suitable partners in an effort to ensure regional stability.
In the final analysis this created what can be called “intersecting” systems in the global security landscape an involvement in which gives the regional countries additional security guarantees. Today, there are structures of varied sizes and changing compositions that when superimposed create a more flexible international security model. It allows the involved states to find adequate responses to the fast changing situation. This is why it can be called an “associative” model—its main element is involvement of countries in many associations, some of them with widely different interests obvious at various levels and with qualitative different contributions.
At the same time, multilateral relations between the Central Asian countries and America and Russia rest on a firm foundation of their bilateral contacts that make it possible to deal with a wide range of issues.
Kyrgyzstan-RussiaOur country regards stronger and developing multilateral relations with Russia as one of its key and long-tern foreign policy priorities. Such relationships are of special importance for Kyrgyzstan for historical and cultural reasons, because of traditional friendship between the two nations and shared interests in the political, economic, scientific and technical, humanitarian, cultural and other spheres. Relationships between Kyrgyzstan and Russia received a new……………..
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