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- Title
US INTERESTS IN CENTRAL ASIA.
- Authors
Abu Romman, Ali Ahmad
- Abstract
The disintegration of the USSR in December, 1991 and the consequent emergence of independent states in Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Baltic were unprecedented historical events in the global politics of modern times. As a result, five independent Central Asian states of significant geopolitical importance emerged on the vast Eurasian landscape. It is a land locked region of the gigantic Asian continent contiguous to six large states- Russia in the North-West, China in the East and Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India occupying the whole swathe of Southern fringe. The geographical location of Central Asia has been of decisive importance. The 19th century Great Game, Britain's against Russia, was mainly explained in terms of the strategic significance of the region because of its geographical location as the gateway to the Indian subcontinent and the Persian Gulf. In today's Great Game focus is on how to delink Central Asia from Russian ethnic domination and to build a polity attuned to democracy and liberal values, also to revamp their shattered economy marked as it is by shortages, inflation and unbalanced and lop sided pattern of development, evolve beneficial programmes of regional cooperation within the Central Asian states and with neighbouring countries and others.
- Subjects
ASIA-United States relations; EURASIANS; GREAT Game (Anglo-Russian relations); 19TH century Central Asian history; INTERNATIONAL relations; ECONOMIC indicators
- Publication
Journal of Central Asian Studies, 2010, Vol 19, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0975-086X
- Publication type
Article