U.S. ROLE IN SETTLING ETHNIC TERRITORIAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES

Year 2020, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 54 - 75, 27.07.2020

Kaan Diyarbakırlıoğlu

Abstract

The independence process of the Central Asian Republics, which has developed within the framework of the discussion, has led to the emergence of new debates during the integration of these countries into the international system. Depending on the reason for developing ecological ethnic conflicts and differences of opinion in the form of experienced application of liberal economic policies to increase its influence in the region and in this context the United States on Breaking the Soviet power and overall breaking the Slavic effect up has led to the acceleration of the policy. The study, which aims to add a new perspective to the literature by analyzing the regional dynamics of the USA in terms of dependent and independent variables, after the Cold War Trying to be included in the region within the framework of the new American security doctrine, the process of facing the ethnic and environmental problems inherited by the Soviet Russia process and the policies developed for this will be examined.

Keywords

United States, Central Asia, Territorial Conflicts, , Ecological Conflicts

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