De-Securitization of Uzbekistan-Tajikistan Relations: Causes and Ramifications

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KOUZEHGAR KALEJI VALI

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Journal: JOURNAL OF CENTERAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS STUDIES Year:2019 | Volume:24 | Issue:104 Page(s): 119-156

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De-Securitization of Uzbekistan-Tajikistan Relations: Causes and Ramifications

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KOUZEHGAR KALEJI VALI | Issue Writer Certificate

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Central AsiaQ2

UzbekistanQ2

TajikistanQ2

MirziyoyevQ1

Securitization and de-securitization and Copenhagen School of SecurityQ1

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The noticeable evolutions and changes, in Uzbekistan’ s foreign policy particularly towards Tajikistan that occurred after the sudden death of Islam Karimov on September 2016, arouses the following questions: a) What are the causes for dé tente and de-securitization in Tajikistan-Uzbekistan relations? b) What ramifications does the mentioned issue bring along? In order to answer the mentioned questions, the author argues that the change in Uzbekistan’ s leadership and Mirziyoyev’ s effort for domestic growth and development, developing and extending energy pipelines and corridors in the region, besides leaving Karimov’ scult of personality have all led to transforming Uzbekistan’ s foreign policy and strengthening regional cooperation with the participation of five Central Asian states. In order to assess the literature’ s hypothesis, the author addresses Tajikistan and Uzbekistan’ s relations in two specific eras of securitization (1991-2016) and de-securitization (since September 2016), based on descriptive-analytical method and applying theoretical concepts and factors of (de)securitization within the Copenhagen School of security. During the first decade that encompasses a long period of Karimov’ s leadership in Uzbekistan (1991-2016), many social (ethnicity, language and culture) and economic (water resources and environment) issues between the both nations were deviated from their natural and normal direction and became politicized and securitized. However, during the letter era, Uzbekistan was experiencing an evolution that was derived of two main reasons; a) a change of elites and actors in Uzbekistan, particularly Karimov and Inoyatov; b) Mirziyoyev’ s taking the power. The mentioned factors changed Uzbekistan’ s dominant discourse towards Tajikistan. This discourse change led to a better cooperation among the five Central Asian states in diverse areas without an involvement of external powers especially the Russian Federation and China.

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KOUZEHGAR KALEJI, VALI. (2019). De-Securitization of Uzbekistan-Tajikistan Relations: Causes and Ramifications. JOURNAL OF CENTERAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS STUDIES, 24(104 ), 119-156. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/94560/en

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KOUZEHGAR KALEJI VALI. De-Securitization of Uzbekistan-Tajikistan Relations: Causes and Ramifications. JOURNAL OF CENTERAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS STUDIES[Internet]. 2019;24(104 ):119-156. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/94560/en

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VALI KOUZEHGAR KALEJI, “De-Securitization of Uzbekistan-Tajikistan Relations: Causes and Ramifications,” JOURNAL OF CENTERAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS STUDIES, vol. 24, no. 104 , pp. 119–156, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/94560/en

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