Peaceful Development in Kazakhstan, Central Asia and Caspian Sea Basin
Article from: OGEL 2 (2010), in Kazakhstan
Abstract
The economic and political balance of power is beginning to shift from west to east in Central Asia. Kazakhstan's position at the Eurasian crossroad allows it to play a key role in the economic development of central Asia as it serves the main link to the fast paced growth of the Chinese economy. The completion of the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China natural gas pipeline has not only increased strategic competition for resources between Europe, Russia and China it has opened an alternative transit system to a Russian dominated network. Linking producers in the Caspian Sea ...