Central Asia

America’s alliances with Central Asia’s despots

by News Sources 12.13.2010

The Guardian reports: The post-Soviet state of Uzbekistan is a nightmarish world of “rampant corruption”, organised crime, forced labour in the cotton fields, and torture, according to the leaked cables. But the secret dispatches released by WikiLeaks reveal that the US tries to keep President Islam Karimov sweet because he allows a crucial US military [...]

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For the West, ‘Game over’ in Central Asia

by Paul Woodward 01.08.2010

For the West, ‘Game over’ in Central Asia By Andrea Bonzanni, World Politics Review, January 8, 2010 Last month, the West officially lost the new “Great Game.” The 20-year competition for natural resources and influence in Central Asia between the United States (supported by the European Union), Russia and China has, for now, come to [...]

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