... be to maintain a balance and good relations with both parties and make sure that no significant conflicts break out in the coming decade.
Central Asia: Region X
Federica Prandin:
The EU and Russia in Central Asia: Is There Any Room for Cooperation?
Central Asia does not attract as much media attention as Ukraine or the Baltic states, which is a fundamental mistake. Russia's “soft underbelly” may well become a source of bad news in the coming decade.
The future of Afghanistan presents the greatest challenge in the region. US troops will leave the country sooner or later, whether commanded out by President Trump ...
... problem; most likely, things will remain local and will be limited to individual instances of cooperation.
In previous decades, Central Asian countries were at the greatest risk from the threat coming from Afghanistan. Today, the threat has not exactly subsided, but it is at least a stably predicable danger.
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Aleksandr Gushchin:
Ukraine: 25 Years of Missed Opportunities
Russia’s foreign policy in the post-Soviet space will be mostly aimed at looking for possible ways to tie various regional ...
... political regime” has become the main consequence, which is vividly illustrated by the rescheduling of the presidential elections in Kazakhstan from 2016 to 2015.
Eurasian integration: deep water or still water?
The immediate reaction to the events in Ukraine reflects mounting apprehension in Central Asia over national sovereignty and territorial integrity, increased fears of “Russian neo-imperialism,” as well as growing uncertainty about its future foreign policy positioning.
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Irina Zviagelskaya:
In Search of Support Points: Iran in Central Asia
The Central Asian capitals happen to be navigating between Scylla ...
... always an easy choice. Whether it has been in Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central Asia or the Caucasus, what the world has usually seen is a corrupt and/or dysfunctional... ... identifying the problems was far easier than actually solving them. In that I suspect Ukraine will be no different, no matter how many elections, reforms, or ‘repositions’... ... regime would fall one way or another. In the Maidan revolution this was not the case: Russia was very much interested in the long-term geostrategic consequences of regime...
For the past decade Ukraine has been in the midst of a political tussle, or metaphorically a 'Geopolitical ... ... continue its enlargement policy for both rational and questionable reasons. On the other, Russia aims to make sure it achieves its goal of restoring 80% of the defunct USSR’s... ... after it rejected moves from the EU (See: Euractiv, 2013). It could even be a model for Central Asia. I have to come in at this stage and say this is getting somewhat absurd...
