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Alexander Cooley, professor of political science at Barnard College, director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, in an interview for CABAR.asia spoke about the evolution of foreign policy of Central Asian countries; the problems and challenges these countries will face in the near future and why the United States should not get involved in a new competition of great powers in the region.
“A Central Asian regional identity might have been a very feasible identity project: shared language, religion, and Soviet experience—all of this could have been mobilized to build a shared identity. But, as we all know, this did not happen,” explains Helge Blakkisrud, Senior Research Fellow at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in an interview to CABAR.asia analytical platform.