Abstract
ABSTRACT The thesis of the article is that Central Asia is a region of great importance to its neighbors who, in turn, are of great relevance to the United States and cannot, therefore, be considered of secondary importance to the latter. Central Asia is significant to Russia, China, and the Muslim Middle East, but it is not given sufficient attention by Washington despite appeals by many American experts in the field. For strategic reasons, Moscow cannot permit the region to fall under Chinese, American, or Islamist domination. The region also supplies Russia with much needed cheap labor. At the same time, Central Asia is increasingly becoming valuable to Beijing as a nearby source of energy and minerals and to the Muslim world as its recently recovered Northward extension. The article summarizes key goals of U.S. policy in the area that includes preventing Russia from regaining exclusive influence, controlling the spread of weapons of mass destruction, preventing any single power from acquiring a monopo...
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