Articles on the tag «Tajikistan»
Geopolitics of Central Asia: A New Silk Road?
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, collectively Central Asia, are countries about which most Europeans know little. Lying at the heart of Eurasia, they may become a new object of strategic rivalry between global and regional powers.
Minsk Security Conference: Give the pragmatists a chance!
The International Conference on Eurasian Security in Minsk is not quite as prominent as the Munich Security Conference, nor does it enjoy the media attention of its rival event in Bavaria. However, it takes place in a location where history has already been made, namely in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, where the Minsk Agreements were signed, which were supposed to end the Ukraine conflict. The fact that this did not happen was certainly due in part to some of the participants at the Munich Security Conference...