چکیده:
Geographical values play an important role in the behavior of countries and create different behavioral patterns such as cooperation, interaction, rivalry and disputation. Central Asia, as a geographical space with a set of values, opportunities and potentials, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and creation of power vacuum in Central Asia, has caused rivalry among powers in order to gain these values and opportunities. This research is intended to examine the role of geographical values of Central Asia in the rivalry of global powers. The research methodology adopted is descriptive- analytic and the data- gathering procedure is library finding. The results of this research based on library findings reveal that geographical values of this region are influential in the rivalry of global powers. The most important geographical values leading to rivalry are: geographical location, energy resources, energy transmission routs and the consumption market of Central Asia.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Geographical location of Central Asia is important for the US because of the following reasons: 1- Segregating the command of US forces from the Pacific command and giving it to military command 2- Signing short-term military treaties with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in order to deploy forces in these countries with the aim of carrying out military operations in Afghanistan 3- Using the space of Central Asian countries in order to transfer military equipment to Afghanistan 4- Promoting cooperation with Soviet Union republics in security improvement and economic development The US interests in this region in terms of geographical location can be expressed as follows: Anti-terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism and establishment of military bases in order to bolster Afghanistan front, direct access to the land and geographic space of rivals and opponent’s and exerting pressure on them such as Iran, Afghanistan, Russia and China and utilizing geographical space for carrying out military operations in general and shaping the place theory and the new threat source to its military rivals, especially Iran, Russia and China.
Central Asia's energy transmission routs 3-4-The importance of Central Asia’s consumption market in rivalry of global powers 3-4-1 - Central Asian as a consumption market of goods Central Asian economy in the Soviet Union was first allocated to the production of certain goods (cotton) and later transformed into two special section of export and local consumption goods, and then were limited to business partners (Russia and other European Republics) and at the fourth stage, dependent development made this region extremely vulnerable to fluctuations in the market and eventually a large proportion of economic activities in the region was allocated to cotton production (Koolaee, 1997: 51)."