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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
An analysis of NATO, EU, and OSCE foreign policy objectives and other aims in the Central Asia Region* shows that, due to its special military and strategic position and vast raw hydrocarbon supplies, this region has been in the focus of the above organizations' attention for many years now. The interest of these international structures in the region is aroused by the fact that over the past 15 years this extensive area of Asia has become a vital link in the system of international military-political and economic trade relations. It borders on two regional zones of lingering instability - Afghanistan and Iraq. The West also sees Central Asia as a lever for controlling the situation in the neighboring Middle East, where Iran is located, as well as in nearby South Asia, where two next-door nuclear powers - India and Pakistan - have still not fully normalized their relations and are continuing to build up their nuclear missile arsenal.
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