Uzbekistan's diplomacy in the modern international relations system

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1611
• Date: 01 November 2016
• Published date: 01 November 2016

■Academic Paper

Uzbekistan’s diplomacy in the modern

international relations system

Durbek Sayfullayev*

Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The article is dedicated to the issue of Uzbekistan’s diplomacy in the 21st century. It shows the evolutional path of

Uzbek diplomacy that plays an important role in pursuing national interests on the global scale in the framework

of foreign policy. Article shows that Uzbekistan has clearly defined foreign policy priorities; it willfollow in the fore-

seeable future. Such aspects as more active participation in the multilateral cooperation and at the same time retaining

healthy pragmatism as a result of pursuing bilateral relations both with neighboring countries and great powers are

also underlined. The main advantage and novelty of the article are that the author provides clear-cut periodization of

Uzbekistan’s diplomacy—a feature that has never been met in any of Uzbek or foreign researches. Copyright © 2016

John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keywords: Uzbekistan, diplomacy, antiterrorism coalition, regional security, national state interest

INTRODUCTION

Uzbekistan’s diplomacy has a long and quite dis-

tinctive history. It has always been characterized

by national interests that were about to seek and

establish (in the early days of independence) and re-

tain (during the later years) Uzbekistan’s own place

on the international arena. This article tries to

periodize Uzbek diplomacy’s history by dividing

the period of Uzbekistan’s statehood from 1991 to

2015 into six parts based upon historical overview.

The actuality of the topic can be substantiated by

the followings:

(1) Growing necessity in conducting scientific

research of Uzbekistan’s diplomacy evolution-

ary development during independence years;

(2) Necessity of uni fication of the rich experience

gained during this period of social development

and drawing certain outcomes of it;

(3) Growing demand towards methodological sub-

stantiation of social and political importance of

Uzbekistan’s diplomatic actions in terms of pro-

viding regional and global security;

(4) Possible proliferation of new trends and prob-

lems in Uzbek diplomacy and necessity of scien-

tific approach with regard to their solution

methods and etc.

The scientific study of Uzbekistan’s diplomacy

history started after the country’s gaining of inde-

pendence. From this point of view the conducted

vresearch works can be divided into four groups:

The first group includes the works of the Presi-

dent of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov

combining conceptual views on actual directions

of the country’s foreign policy, problems of provid-

ing national and regional security (Karimov, 1997).

The second group includes the works related to

scientific analysis of different directions of

Uzbekistan’s diplomacy and its practical aspects.

The scientists like Kasymov & Giyasov (2009)),

Saidov (1998), L. Saidova, S. Sh. Sharapova, D. V.

Rakhimbayeva, Nuriddinov (1998)), Juraev (2007)),

Kirgizbayev (2004), and A. A. Sharapov have

*Correspondence to: Durbek Sayfullayev,Tashkent State Institute

of Oriental Sciences, Shaxrisabz 25 Toshkent shahri O’zbekiston

respublikasi, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

E-mail: s.durbek@mail.ru

Journal of Public Affairs

Volume 16 Number 4 pp 415–422 (2016)

Published online 15 April 2016 in Wiley Online Library

(www.wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/pa.1611

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.