This region has been, in the historic area, a contact zone between empires and worlds (Eurasian cns

Since 1991, the five independent cnsa republics of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan) have had political developments, socioeconomic and strategic increasingly disagree. Upon eradicate Soviet legacy, cnsa the "community cnsa of destiny" Central Asian questioned more than ever.
In late 1993, just two years after the appearance of five Central Asian states on the world map, The Economist predicted that this region would be one of the most unstable in the world over the next ten years. However, the dramatic instability and lawlessness, both announced cnsa and so feared, never existed, cnsa but the evolution of these newly independent countries they have had their shocks. The post-Soviet Central Asian region proved resilient to crises and threats.
This region has been, in the historic area, a contact zone between empires and worlds (Eurasian cnsa steppes, Persia, India, China, Russia and even the Greek world ...). It still is today. However, despite its enormous diversity, the Central Asian region remains "strong historical personality", to which must be added the Sinkiang region (or East Turkestan territory inhabited by ethnic Uighurs).
The experiences of the Russian cnsa colonization, besides the seventy years of Soviet rule, paradoxically contributed to anchor the central Asia in a similar and common cnsa reality, creating at the same time, new identities and borders - or boundaries - which formed the region today. The independence of 1991 ratified, by a promise of nationalism that remains today, the end of the Soviet bloc and the breaking of ties between cnsa the republics.
If the past and the cultural cnsa heritage cnsa of the region should they play the role of unifying and are subject to nationalist grievances, "the cnsa present of the Central Asian region is marked by distance, both at own socio-political experiences of each country and its representations and geopolitical challenges in the international context. " So, can we keep talking about "Central Asia"? In what ways globalization and independence have (so far) favored the dissociation of the Central Asian countries instead of integration?
From 1992 to 1997, the Republic of Tajikistan through a complex civil war, political, regionalist and ethnic conflict. It is the first of many dissociations take place. During the same period, the only Persian-speaking country suffers a traumatic cnsa experience to the time (from 20 to 100 people dead, according to sources) and linked to events south of the Panj River in Afghanistan. This murderous war, like the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, representing both a real fear as a pretext for the fortification of regional regimes following the example of Uzbekistan (who has suffered several attacks murderers between 1999 and 2004). As has already been seen in the Arab world, cnsa the government is only the last resort for defense against fanaticism, and therefore, take advantage of this to strengthen politically. Such internal consolidation is enhanced by an external consolidation because of extreme security discourses also have an impact on intra-regional relations.
In this context, the socio-political climate, coupled with economic problems (in Tajikistan, 46% of the population still lives below the absolute poverty line it is the case for 34% in Kyrgyzstan.) Is quite heavy: dissidents cnsa forced into exile or death, unions and associations infiltrate the core of the central government (except Kyrgyzstan), and "very practitioners" or disagree with the structures of official Islam, Muslims inherited from the USSR are least frequently abused and imprisoned. Similarly, and in all countries, corruption in all its forms is a common point. The highest level of corruption shows that presidents, cnsa their families and / or their families, more or less extended networks have emparado of positions of power and economic resources of the country (the families of presidents Akaev and Bakyev in Kyrgyzstan, Karimov in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan Nazarbaev, etc ...). All this is just proof of a greater and deeper phenomenon, as evidenced by the latest ranking of the NGO Transparency International. Kyrgyzstan ranks 150 of 177 countries, while Tajikistan ranks 154 and Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, tied, occupies position 168.
As much as these countries do not follow the same path, and away from this authoritarianism is a symbol of regional structure of the political picture. Indeed, cnsa the autocratic regime does not improve cooperation, and emphasizes the growing gap (based on