The governance situation in Central Asia

For centuries, the roads that crossed the Eurasian continent, known as the Silk Road, represented the main means of exchange for flows of people, goods and ideas from Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asia. Oriental. Central Asia was the center of these movements and represented the geographical intersection of all these flows. The Great Game of the 19th century showed the interest – and also the difficulties – of the great colonial powers in controlling the Central Asian territories. Currently, as independent states for less than two decades, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are once again setting international agendas for various reasons: for possessing energy resources – limited, but still unexploited – necessary for their European and Asian neighbors. , and for being an obligatory passage between the two extremes of the Eurasian geographical space.