ASSESSMENT OF THE MAIN FACTORS OF CENTRAL ASIA DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF DEEPENING COOPERATION AND OVERCOMING CHALLENGES

Abstract

In this work, the authors note the sufficient potential for strategic partnership and mutually beneficial cooperation between the countries of Central Asia (CA). Almost all sectors of the national economies of the entire region have enormous opportunities and resources: industry, agriculture, transport and logistics, construction, energy, ecology, digitalization, science, education, culture, creative industry. The article highlights the features and differences in the development of the countries of the region, their common economic and political interests, emerging on the basis of modern geopolitical uncertainty and tension. At the same time, special importance is given to the issues of achieving collective security and ensuring economically sustainable development of Central Asia, their interdependence and interconnectedness in an unstable multipolar and rapidly changing world. Ensuring the security and stabilization of the national economies of the Central Asian states is based on strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation and interaction, in particular industrial and agricultural cooperation and integration, expanding ties in the fields of trade, science, transport and logistics, education, science and culture. The necessity of assessing systemic problems of an intra-country and regional nature when coordinating the efforts of all countries of the Central Asian region is substantiated. Based on the new reality of the modern world order, the need for government reforms is dictated, the development of current areas of foreign policy cooperation between Kazakhstan and the Central Asian countries using the principles, techniques and methods of constructive and smart diplomacy, including the main directions (political, economic, environmental, scientific-expert, popular, etc.). According to the authors of the article, these studies together are necessary for building a region-wide joint policy for the life support of the countries of the Central Asian space and maintaining stability and sustainability in the format of dynamic changes in world development.