Abstract
US relations with the countries of the Caspian Basin are only a decade old, dating to their emergence as independent states following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.1 The Clinton administration conducted American foreign policy towards the region during eight of those years. Indeed, in a very real sense, Clinton’s is the only US policy that the countries of the Caspian Basin have known. The advent of a new administration in Washington in 2001, therefore, marks an important point in US relations with the region. How the Bush administration approaches the Caspian Basin — either by continuing Clinton policies, altering them in part, or making a decisive break with them — will have an important impact, not just on the region, but on US relations with states neighboring it, most notably Russia, now under the firm and less accommodating hand of President Vladimir Putin. It is clearly time for a reassessment of US policy towards the region, within the new administration and outside it.KeywordsForeign PolicyNational InterestBush AdministrationCaspian RegionCaspian BasinThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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