1. Situation in Central Asia: the role and place of Kazakhstan in the region

2. Disposition of the region in the center of continent

3. Determination of perspectives of balance power in Eurasia

4. Focus attention on a problem of natural resources of CA

Plan of seminar:

1. Control on fuel-energy resources

2. Eurasian transportation corridor

3. Creation of regional center of UN preventing conflicts, international disputes and preventive diplomacy

4. Cooperation of states of the region with UN, OBSE

Plan of IWST:

1. Realisation of Conceptions on rational utilize of water-energy resources in the frame of EuAsEC.

2. Foreign Policy of Kazakhstan: successful example of many- sidedness in provision of security in the region.

3. Kazakhstan factor in provision of security in CA

4. Strategy and interests of West in CA: old and new geopolitics

IWS questions:

1. Dynamics of political risks in CA and the role of outer factors

2. Lack of definite mechanisms of authority and change of political elites without conflicts

3. Globalization and democratization as basic world tendency, affected the formation of modern geopolitical situation of the world

Key questions:

1.Now many say about contradictions between Russia and the USA on the post soviet space as a whole, and in CA in general. In this connection many experts, public figures express if fear will become a game at our expenses? How are these contradictions reflected in the region of CA? Wasn’t it prepared as a “geopolitical victim”(as some Russians state) of contradiction between Russia, China and the USA?

2. as for states of CA, they all were involved in antiterrorist collision. And here arises normal question, what were motivated?

Lecture 3

Modern geopolitical interests- ”Great Game” in Caspian region.

1. Caspian Coastal States (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran).

2. Transit zone states (Russia, Iran, China, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and so on).

3. Traditional regional participants (Russia, Iran, China, Turkey).

4. Great world participants (the USA, EU, Russia, China).

Caspian S

Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea (Azerbaijani: Xəzər dənizi, Persian: دریای کاسپین /دریای مازندران /دریای خزر‎,Russian: Каспийское море, Kazakh: Каспий теңізі, Turkmen: Hazar deňizi) is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.^[2][3] The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km² (143,200 sq mi) (not including Garabogazköl Aylagy) and a volume of 78,200 km³ (18,800 cu mi).^[4] It is in anendorheic basin (it has no outflows) and is bounded to the northwest by Russia, to the west byAzerbaijan, to the south by Iran, to the southeast by Turkmenistan, and to the northeast byKazakhstan.

The ancient inhabitants of its littoral perceived the Caspian Sea as an ocean, probably because of its saltiness and seeming boundlessness. It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third the salinity of most seawater.