Silk Road Strategy

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The term Silk Road strategy is based on a translation of an appropriate legislative proposal ( Silk Road Strategy Act or also called "New Great Game"), which the United States House of Representatives adopted in March 1999th However, the bill was neither ratified by the Senate nor signed by then US President Bill Clinton (or one of his successors).

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In this bill, the interests of the USA in Central Asia (mainly in the so-called post - Soviet space ) were defined. In January 2003 an amendment to the existing law was passed, which should bring US policy up to date. Markus Kaiser from Bielefeld University describes how the USA uses this term to fix its policy in the region.

The historical Silk Road or The Great Game gave its name to the political concept . It has its ideological origin in the Carter Doctrine , which goes back to President Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński .

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The bill would authorize the US government to provide the states of Central Asia and the South Caucasus with humanitarian, economic and development aid, as well as assistance in securing borders and in dealing with migration and refugees.

The aim of this aid is

  1. the spread of sovereignty, independence, democratic forms of government, respect for human rights;
  2. helping to resolve regional conflicts and removing barriers to cross-border trade;
  3. spreading the principles of economic cooperation and free trade;
  4. Support in the development of the regional infrastructure, which is necessary for communication, energy supply, health care, trade and transport along an east-west axis in order to establish intensive relations and trade connections between the countries mentioned and the Euro-Atlantic community;
  5. Supporting US interests and business ventures.

This aid to governments would be prohibited, with defined exceptions

  1. who violate human rights on a large scale;
  2. knowingly passed on or authorized the transfer of missile technology or technology that contributes to the construction of weapons of mass destruction;
  3. who have repeatedly supported terrorist activities;
  4. who are banned from assistance by federal law;
  5. in which the respective US embassies could not see any significant progress in solving trade disputes.

The US Congress also holds

  1. Encourage the President to take all diplomatic measures to ensure that the conflicts in the South Caucasus and Central Asia are resolved fairly, appropriately and sustainably;
  2. it makes sense that the United States should encourage, where appropriate, the establishment of multinational, neutral peacekeeping forces in order to secure peace agreements between the parties to the conflict in the countries in that region;
  3. It makes sense for the United States to provide assistance to the Israeli State Department's Center for International Cooperation (MASHAV) and the AID's Cooperative Development Program-Central Asian Republics (CDP-CAR) economic development of agriculture, health and other important areas according to the guidelines of the AID.

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  1. ↑ govtrack.us
  2. ^ Ullrich Rothe: The Great Game . In: PT Magazin , August 28, 2006
  3. ↑ US State Department: VI. Assessments Required by the Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999 - January 2003
  4. ↑ Markus Kaiser: Eurasia: Neo-imperalist discourse or social reality? Working Paper No. 337, Bielefeld 2001, p. 12, ISSN  0936-3408