The publication explores various periods of the policy of the Unites States towards Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 through gradual conceptualization of its strategy named “Greater Central Asia” by American expertcommunity and ways and means of its implementation by the US administrations ever since. Based on his personal participation in some events in his foreign service career, as well as meetings with American officials and experts, releases and documents of US public agencies and media, the author analyses origins and causes of transformation of the “Greater Central Asia” strategy and its likely way ahead. The research does not intend to embrace the subject as a whole and is focusing mostly on role and place of his home country Uzbekistan in this process.

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