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Essay on Comparison Of Kazakhstan & Belarus
After the disintegration of the USSR, successor of the Russian Empire, and the materialization on the political map of the world of the new autonomous post-Soviet states, as it appears, the second big game around Central Asia has begun, this time with other key players and in the considerably changed system of international relations.
A very imperative issue for Kazakhstan is the export routes for oil, which, in its turn, has a great impact on the issue of regional and world security.
The creation of a nuclear weapon free zone in Central Asia could become an important and promising factor of strengthening of regional security. It could become another weighty contribution to the ensuring of global and regional security after the withdrawal of the nuclear weapon inherited from the USSR from the territory of Kazakhstan and the joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty as non-nuclear states by the states of Central Asia. But there are factors, which can hinder the process of the international acknowledgement of Central Asia as a nuclear weapon free zone.
After acquiring state independence the peoples of Central Asia embarked on a new, post-Soviet stage of transformation.
Economic and biased reforms conducted under conditions of independent development made a fundamental change in the profile of the former Soviet Asian republics. Independent access to the international arena made a basic change in their geopolitical and geo-economic role. Nevertheless, the results of five years of independent development show that in such a short span of time it is impossible to overcome completely the Soviet legacy in the economy, politics, ideology, and mentality. In Kazakhstan the sense of presence and danger of internal threats is customary.
What worries Kazakhstani citizens most is not the territorial reliability or external expansion, but the possibility of societal cataclysms in connection with catastrophically deteriorating life....
