DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN REGION: THE PATH TO REGIONAL INTEGRATION?

Abstract

 The practice of integrated application of digital technologies and platform solutions is most clearly reflected in the digital transformation of economic and political spheres in the country. The study of the issue of digital transformation in the Central Asian Region (CAR) countries allows us to assess the effect of changes and prospects for further transformations. In this regard, the article aims to assess the development of such a phenomenon as digital transformation in international relations.

The scientific significance of this article is to determine the impact of digital technologies on various international political and economic processes in the region. Finally, the article analyzes the process of transformation of the integration idea of the CAR countries under the influence of digitalization. In this study, an attempt is made to retrospectively assess the prerequisites for the use of electronic network tools.

The practical significance of the work is to analyze the degree of penetration of digital transformation in the CAR countries. Special emphasis is placed on foreign experience in regulating and using the political dimension of digital technologies. The research team of authors seeks to contribute to the literature on comparative regionalism. Since modern authors have little studied the issue of the practice of using digital technologies, especially in the political discourse of the CAR countries. Theoretical and methodological analysis of scientific literature provided an opportunity for scientific understanding of digital transformation.

The methodological basis of the study allowed us to determine the features of the digital environment and formulate its main prospects. The emergence of new hotbeds of instability and tension in different parts of the post-Soviet space increases interest in the topics of crisis resolution. We believe that the search for answers to the questions posed in the framework of the study leads to an increase in the relevance of the topic of digital transformation of the region.