This article provides an analysis of Mongolia’s foreign relations with the post-Soviet Central Asian states, particularly Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, their prospects going forward. It overview why, despite shared geocultural identities geopolitical imperatives, relationship remains more distant than its other neighbors East Asia. then assesses changes brought by dynamics a rising Chinese power p...

The fall of Soviet Union and independence of republics of central Asia as well as South Caucasus have brought both chances and challenges for Iran. At first it seemed that Muslim republics, which broke from Soviet Union, might have brought great chances for Iran to promote her ideological claims and economic interests. Dreams of Islamic revolution in new independent central Asian republics invo...

Central Asia is one of the regions that suffer the most prominent transboundary water and energy problems in the world. Effective transboundary water-energy resource management and cooperation are closely related with socioeconomic development and stability in the entire Central Asia. Similar to Central Asia, Northwest China has an arid climate and is experiencing a water shortage. It is now fa...

iran is situated at the center of a regional subsystem including the middle east, central asia, the caucasus, southwest asia and the persian gulf basin. iran's relations with each of these subsystems refer to a special ground that is rooted in the foundation of iranian civilization. if relations with each of these regions are designed according to cultural, economic and political realities...

this article  studyies political identity of dagestani people in the north caucasus. at the first, i have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with dagestanis. this theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...

the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the soviet :union: marked the start of a new era in international relations. when russia's power and influence weakened, some newly independent states of central asia and the caucasus have taken tendency toward relation with west. for europe resource of new countries notably oil and gas was very important for independent from russia energy....

while the relations of iran and russia with the central asian states have been analyzed separately in previous studies, the regional foreign policies of these two countries have not been compared in detail. as a result, it would be difficult to comprehend the extent of the similarities and differences inherent in the foreign policy behaviors of these two key players in the central asian region....

The article deals with the problem of trade relations between Turkic Qaghanates and China in VI—VIII centuries. At that time, zone contact steppe Mongolia northern Chinese borders became a place active exchange, which nomads, Chinese, Sogdians participated. purpose is to analyze along territory Qaghanate centuries identify economic significance Turkic-Chinese frontier for international Central ...