ABSTRACT
With the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia, a land almost forgotten for the last hundred years, has reemerged onto the world stage. Peoples that have long lived in isolation are beginning to develop relations with their neighbors as well as with distant nations with which they have never before had any contact. The foreign relations of the newly independent states of Central Asia are obviously of interest to the rest of the world. To better understand the present, one may briefly look into the past and its uses.
