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The article focuses on the integration implementation in Central Asian region. The integration process is perceived through the concept of positive and negative integration based on works of Jan Tinbergen. The goal is to show the role of interregional organizations such as the European Union (the EU), the Eurasian Economic Union (the EEU), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (the SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (the CSTO) in promoting Central Asia as the whole region. Such cooperation falls ...

The article is devoted to the pressing issue of the transformation of Russia’s and China’s foreign policy strategies in Central Asia in recent years. The prevailing aspect of economic approaches as the basis of practical implementation of the “strategic partnership” concept is the main feature of these two states’ policies in Central Asia. However, the two countries maintain military and political cooperation, each of them upholding its own political interests. China’s tactics is in its active support of the integ...