Regional and Geo-Economic Situation in the Turkic – Speaking Countries in Central Asia

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Economic growth and development of Turkic Speaking Countries in Central Asia is in difficult conditions which prevent them with joint efforts to resist the negative effects of globalization and geostrategic challenges of the leading countries in the region. A comparative analysis of the socio-economic, regional and geopolitical dynamics of Turkic Speaking States in Central Asia, 1991-2013 poses a number of challenges, the answers to which may identify economic development in Central Asia in radically changed circumstances. The situation has been created, in which the development of the countries in Central Asia is due to not only with solving its own socio-economic, demographic, and interethnic, water and energy, interstate and in particular regional tasks, but also with the great influence of geopolitical factors. Logically it is determined the developing the theory of managed chaos, the concept of “Greater Central Asia” by American scientists, concepts of northern territories and strategies of China in the framework of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the strategic approaches of Russia to the countries of Central Asia and others. In current situation, the countries of Central Asia, expediently to increase the level of regional integration, which enables them to jointly enter into a customs union (CU), the single economic space (SES) or other integration associations on favorable terms for the region and the country circumstances individually. Regional organizations, created in post-Soviet space couldn’t take place. Modern Central Asia is a complex of contradiction and local, regional interethnic, in ethnic center, ecological and interstate tension, which obtained systematic character. The assentation of the economic integration process is an indicator of the formation and the development of the general regional conflicts. Manipulating the current contradictions, geopolitical partners can successfully use theory of chaos management in the level of exact state and central-Asian regions in total, giving it applied character. Therefore, regionalization promoting Turkic Speaking Countries in Central Asia could provide with not only economic, but also regional security.