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Please join the Harriman Institute, the INTERACT program and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a panel discussion on the economic, strategic and geopolitical implications of Central Asia’s growing linkages to East Asia.
Prevailing narratives describing Central Asian international politics tend to locate them within Eurasia and refer to a looming power struggle along an East-West divide. Today, however, we see accelerating trans-regional integration across diverse Asian sub-regions (East, West, North, South, and Central), much of it bypassing the West altogether.
China, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey, all have adopted Central Asia or Silk Road policies of one kind or another and have developed an increasingly noticeable political, economic and security footprint. Southeast Asian countries are equally reaching out to Central Asia both bilaterally and through ASEAN. Moreover, these new forms of pan-Asian integration have also acquired a multilateral dimension, underscored by the rise of the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Japan plus Central Asia Dialogue, and the Conference for Interaction and Cooperation in Asia.
What will be the ramifications of greater pan-Asian interconnectedness? How might these developments affect not only the foreign policy priorities of the Central Asian states, but broader issues like the rapidly shifting international order and the global balance of power?
Focusing on Central Asia’s growing ties with China, Japan, South Korea and South East Asian countries, this panel of acclaimed international scholars will examine these evolving Central-Asia/Asia Pacific relations in the political, security, and economic realms.
Presentations:
Central Asia and Asia: Charting growing trans-regional linkages (Nicola Contessi, Columbia University)
China and Central Asia (Sebastien Peyrouse, George Washington University)
Japan and Central Asia (Timur Dadabaev, University of Tsukuba)
South Korea and Central Asia (Matteo Fumagalli, Central European University)
Discussant: Alexander Cooley(Columbia University)
Panel Discussion:
The Implications of Growing Trans-Regional Ties Between Central Asia and the Broader Asia-Pacific
