(CSIS) (Co-authored with Aitolkyn Kourmanova) The Obama administration recently completed a review of its policy towards Central Asia and has rolled out the main pillars of the United States’ “Enduring Vision for Central Asia” in a series of recent speeches by top officials. Richard E. Hoagland, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and Anthony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State, all emphasized that U.S. interest in Central Asia is enduring, not transitory. In the words of Richard E. Hoagland: “Look at the map. Central Asia shares borders with Afghanistan, China, Russia, and Iran – this is an ‘interesting’ neighborhood, to say the least.” […]
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