KAZAKHSTAN: United States Engagement for Eurasian Security

摘要

This paper researched the proposition tnat United States in Central Asia was important to our national security strategy. It analyzed whether or not the United States should develop a tailored foreign policy for engaging the Republic of Kazakhstan. To accomplish that objective, the essay compared alternative policy options for advancing U.S. interests identified in the 1998 United States National Security Strategy for a New Century (NSS). Therefore, this essay has illustrated how the United States could improve its abilities to lead the Kazakhstan government towards a more democratic system, embracing the rule of law' concept over centralized government controls, by structuring a program which provides tangible incentives for achieving these objectives. It has also provided evidence that an economic approach appears to be the most viable means for success, but that the economic approach should be woven with both a diplomatic and military aspect. To ignore Central Asia, or to conclude that U.S. engagement in central Asia somehow will result in Russian resistance or develop unintended consequences that are contrary to U.S. interest in the region, is to accept an argurnent that Central Asia is just not of sufficient importance to the U.S. to risk the effort necessary to achieve these goals.