ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 zooms in on the analysis of the economic road maps for cooperation between China, Japan and South Korea on the one hand and Uzbekistan, as an example of a Central Asia (CA) country, on the other. It focuses on the bilateral economic cooperation agenda setting of China, Japan and South Korea, on the one hand, and their counterpart in CA, Uzbekistan, on the other. The importance of focusing on China, Japan and South Korea can be explained by these countries’ roles in terms of economic contribution and official development assistance to CA in general and Uzbekistan in particular. Uzbekistan is chosen not only due to word limitations of this study but, importantly, because Uzbekistan is the demographically largest and geographically most central country of this region and is undergoing a transition to become a more open economic and political system, as part of which it is experiencing dynamic reforms that may have a tremendous impact on all of CA.
