CENTRAL ASIA: GEOPOLITICS, SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS
Abstract
As global power and influence move progressively eastward, all the main international actors have their sights set on playing a leading role in Asia. The world nations are trying to build new relations and form advantageous balances of power with the developing Asian countries, where the soil is already fertile for both expanding cooperation and intensifying competition.
In all likelihood, present-day Asia, where most of the world’s population lives and significant achievements in industrial development have been made, will largely determine the future vectors of globalization. The region’s countries are also characterized by rampant military spending, fierce competition over resources, and smoldering seats of conflict.
Central Asia, a small energy-rich area, occupies a special place in the Asian architecture. This region determines the flows of energy resources to every corner of the earth, and also neighbors on unstable Afghanistan.
The interests of the largest global players are concentrated precisely on Central Asia; in some sense, the region holds the key to the geopolitical future and stability of the entire Asian continent.
This article presents the author’s view of the situation in Central Asia, conducts an analysis of the risks and challenges the region’s countries are encountering, and determines the possible paths of development in the context of internal problems and external influence.
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See: A. Kazantsev, Bolshaia igra s neizvestnymi pravilami: mirovaia politika i Tsentral’naia Azia, Nasledie Evrasii,Moscow, 2008, 241 pages.
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