What is it about?
This is a book chapter, and it is about problems, challenges and opportunities in negotiation security among Central Asian countries. The chapter seeks to discuss the specifics of the negotiation landscape of micro-regional and macro-regional interaction and cooperation in Central Asia.
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Why is it important?
Negotiation is based on interaction and engagement. Central Asian states need to engage with one another at different levels in order to negotiate and make joint decisions. Without engagement, no new negotiation solutions can emerge. However, deeper and wider engagement requires new ideas on how to create and advance shared interests. The region’s common history and culture, as well as economic needs, can play a positive role in fostering engagement. A sustainable statehood would allow CA5 to better formulate and defend their national interests and support regional dialogue and negotiation. That doesn’t mean that by developing micro-regional cooperation and negotiation networks CA5 will be more isolated from the rest of the world. For the Central Asian states, it is vitally important to develop both micro- and macro-regional cooperation and negotiation structures.
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We can also expect that the region’s countries will continue to search for mutually acceptable forms of regional cooperation and integration. But such cooperation cannot be achieved just from top-down: interactions and cooperation have to be supported from the bottom - at people’s level - too. And yet security concerns continue to hinder transnational grassroots ties in Central Asia. Worse still, the lack of interactions and engagement among civil society, youth, non-governmental organizations, professional groups and the ordinary people of CA5 in and of itself creates serious risks in the foreseeable future.
Dr Alisher Faizullaev
Webster University
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This page is a summary of: Negotiating Security in Central Asia:, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1zrvhbm.15.
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