Why Does America Continue to Advance Its Strategic Interests in Asia?

by Twila Damiano, May 2015

900 words

3 pages

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One of the most important external factors of the situation in the Central Asia is the policy of the United States of America, the increasing role of which in the region is directly connected with a steady tendency of strengthening of their influence on the processes of formation of the modern international relations as a whole. The United States aspire to keep and strengthen the global leadership in a long-term prospect, realizing the growing value of the problems of the central - Asian safety for the whole context of the international stability.

The termination of the Cold War and disintegration of the Soviet Union were caused by the radical changes in the global system of the international relations and a number of its regional subsystems. The emergence of five new independent states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the center of the Euro-Asian continent - put the start for the formation of the new international and political region - the Central Asia.

The need for the formation and strengthening of sovereignty, and also transition to a new type of the economic relations caused a fast formation of the countries of the region as the independent subjects of the world politics were interested in the active inclusion into the world political and economic processes. At the same time the new region became the area of the crossings of the interests and object of the foreign policy influence both of the neighboring states - Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and the global actors of the international relations like the USA.

The USA possess the majority of possibilities to render influence of the character and dynamics of the international relations in the Central Asia, internal and external politics of the countries of the Asian region by virtue of the political, economic and war dominance in the modern world.

The economic interests compose the basis of the strategic interests of the USA in Asia. It is possible to refer trade development to the major strategic interest of the USA in the Asian countries. The USA aspire to trade liberalization in order to avoid a trading deficiency and to open a wider access for the goods, services and the capital on the markets of the Asian countries. Such a policy is represented rather favorable along with a high competitiveness of the American business in relation to the Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwan ones.

The dual position is characteristic for the political strategy and policy of the United States. On the one hand, the USA always pursued the policy of active expansion in all regions, including the Asian market. On the other hand, the Americans aspire to shift the responsibility on the safety of various regions of the world on their allies.

By the end of the Cold War the economy of the countries of the Asian and Pacific region endured the revolution - their economic growth was the most dynamic in comparison with the world one. A number of the countries - China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea …

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