Formation of International Relations in Central Asia: The case studies of water and territorial disputes

本研究的重点是中亚国际关系的形成。它通过两个方面做到了这一点。首先，分析了苏联解体后中亚国家与俄罗斯、中国等较大邻国以及日本等主要援助国的关系。其次，本研究关注中亚国家之间的关系，并强调在水和领土争端解决方面的紧张局势。本研究提出，苏联时期人为引入的行政边界，以及1991年后的重新划定过程，无论是出于安全、行政、相互不信任还是出于人口的民族依恋原因，都已成为政治操纵和相互施压的结果和手段，进一步推动区域国家在区域合作方面遵循相互排斥的政策。

This study has focused on the formation of the International Relations in Central Asia. It has done so through two facets. Firstly, it analyzed relations of Central Asian states after the collapse of the Soviet Union with their larger neighbors like Russia and China as well as countries which served as major donors for the region such as Japan. Secondly, this study focused on relations between Central Asian states and emphasized raising tensions in water and territorial dispute resolution. This study, develops the message that the artificially introduced administrative borders during the Soviet era and later subject to the processes of re-delimitation after 1991, whether for security, administrative, mutual distrust or for the population’s ethnic attachment reasons have become results and means of political manipulation and pressure on each other, further pushing regional states to follow mutually exclusive policies with respect to regional cooperation.