Central Asia: A whole new world not far away

While we all were busy with our domestic affairs for the year, the world has drastically changed, and that includes the region I would like to talk about: Central Asia. The cluster of five states — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, all uniquely different — is at a turning point. To describe the countries in a few words isn’t easy, so I will focus on their recent achievements and why we should care. First and foremost, we should understand that this region is one and it is stable. In other words, whenever we deal with any country of the five, we should keep all of them in mind. In spite of the general preference of the countries to be viewed as their own entity, Central Asian states are increasingly — and sometimes even without realizing it themselves — conducting their foreign policy while including their neighbors. In February, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan signed a historic agreement on border demarcation, laying the foundation for stability in the region. Some had predicted the region to be a hotbed of terrorism on the world map, but the realityWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times