UZBEKISTAN-TURKMENISTAN: POLE OF MULTIVECTORAL POLICY IN CENTRAL ASIA
Abstract
Contrary to the widespread opinion, Central Asia is not a homogenous region made up of independent countries that can easily be lumped together. It is not a monolith, but a territory crisscrossed by numerous dividing lines, some of them created by different, or even opposing, foreign policy preferences of the Central Asian republics. The author has taken two of them—Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—to demonstrate the main trends of multivectoral foreign policy pursued by the regional actors, irrespective of how relations with external players are developing.
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