ORTALYQ AZIYA MURATY (CENTRAL ASIAN DREAM)

Abstract

With Central Asia’s growing political and economic significance, scholarly and policy interest in the region has increased substantially over the past decade. Long regarded as a peripheral region in global affairs, Central Asia has acquired renewed strategic importance owing to intensifying geopolitical competition among major powers, the expansion of transcontinental connectivity initiatives, and the region’s increasing role in energy security, transportation, and regional diplomacy. These developments have generated a growing body of scholarship seeking to reassess Central Asia’s place in international politics and to reconsider the theoretical frameworks through which the region has traditionally been understood.