No. 6 Economic relations and trade - Mapping strategies of Russia, USA and China towards Central Asia

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the role and impact of the world powers in Central Asia. The paper analyses the Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turk-menistan - in terms of their economic and trade cooperation with Russia, the United States of Amer-ica and China, taking into account the impact of such developments like sanctions and labour mi-gration. The study addresses both the national and supranational levels, as it features the mapping of the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), and the Eurasian Eco-nomic Union (EAEU). Further, it addresses the engagement of the Central Asian countries in the international trade agreements and bilateral trade by providing an outlook of the most notable invest-ment and bilateral projects and looks into the disputes that have arisen during the implementation of the said projects.