Barriers to Development of expansion of Cooperation in Central Asia

Interdependence in the economic-security areas, historical, ethnic and racial links, common security threats and concerns among the Central Asian states demonstrate a complex network of extending forms of security relations which has made it hard to make to make clear cut border lines of national security of these countries. This interdependence and various links are more indicative of irrefutable necessity to the growth and development of mechanism based on intergovernmental cooperation to oppose, resolve or manage the security threats and other existing independencies in the regional level. Years of relations and dominant equations on the existing regional trends, however, show rare evidence of moving the Central Asian republics towards some cooperation-based arrangements. Developments in intergovernmental cooperation have faced many obstacles and challenges and a clear prospect does not appear in the near future. Accordingly, the article is to find the major obstacles in the way of growth and extension of cooperation among countries in the regional level. The hypotheses to examine are the political structures of the countries in the region, intergovernmental differences and rivalries, emphasis on extreme nationalism, unbalanced level of development, and a variety of actors.