Strategic assessment of the Caspian Sea basin region : May 7-8, 2009 roundtable (with policy recommendations), Washington, DC.
Brookings Institution.Energy Security Initiative.
National Committee on American Foreign Policy.
Strategic Assessment of the Caspian Sea Basin Region(2009 :Washington, D.C.)
New York : National Committee on American Foreign Policy,
2009.
This conference attempted to evaluation the present state of affairs in the Caspian Sea Basin Region, and the region's geopolitical importance to the United States and to the European Union. Energy security issues were highlighted. Concerns surfaced concerning  Russian attempts to restore the region into its own sphere of influence, growing Chinese inroads, and instability in neighboring Afghanistan. Uncertainty about the ability of the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus to maintain their sovereignty had to be measured against the backdrop of Central Asia being geographically landlocked and separated from Europe by Russia, of unresolved conflicts in Afghanistan and in the Caucasus, and the key issue: freeing the flow of energy riches of the Caspian Sea Basin to the rest of the world, despite great power rivalries.
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This conference attempted to evaluation the present state of affairs in the Caspian Sea Basin Region, and the region's geopolitical importance to the United States and to the European Union. Energy security issues were highlighted. Concerns surfaced concerning  Russian attempts to restore the region into its own sphere of influence, growing Chinese inroads, and instability in neighboring Afghanistan. Uncertainty about the ability of the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus to maintain their sovereignty had to be measured against the backdrop of Central Asia being geographically landlocked and separated from Europe by Russia, of unresolved conflicts in Afghanistan and in the Caucasus, and the key issue: freeing the flow of energy riches of the Caspian Sea Basin to the rest of the world, despite great power rivalries.
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