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The Central Asian Game. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late
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Submitted by imranhus on October 23, 2005
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Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, the geopolitical scene in the center of the Eurasian continent has altered fundamentally. The independence of five Soviet Central Asian republics, and the enduring weakness of these states created a political vacuum that external powers have ever since competed to fill. Soon after this ground-breaking development, a paradigm evolved defining Russia, Turkey and Iran as major players in the entire ‘southern tier' of the former Soviet Union, that is the Caucasus and Central Asia. Russia was correctly identified as a retreating hegemonic power, whereas Turkey and Iran were seen as competitors for influence in especially the six Muslim states that gained independence, that is the Central Asian states and Azerbaijan. This paradigm, which accorded little importance to other international or regional actors, has to a large extent survived in media as well as academia. [1] However, almost ten years after the Soviet collapse, viewing Central Asia through the prism of a Turkish-Iranian-Russian triangle offers at best highly limited guidance to understanding the security and geopolitics of that region.
In the analysis of international security, the state has generally been center of analysis, with focus on the defense of territory. The result of this thinking has been an understanding that the state is the ultimate arbiter in international relations, where each state is governed by power politics, seeking to maximize its security, if necessary at the expense of other states. In many cases, this has led to an assumption that the security of one state results in the insecurity for another, and similarly it is presumed that state actors interact with each other on the basis of interests and gains. State power is generally understood as shaped by the extent of territorial control and possession of natural resources. The possession of such assets—be it presently, or formerly as in the case of European states with a...
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