The roundtable was attended by experts from Britain, Germany, India, Spain, China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Japan, representatives of international organizations, diplomats and others who specialize in the issues of world politics, economics and global development.

 The roundtable was devoted to topical issues within the condition of globalized world and the search for new conceptual approaches in formation of contemporary system of international relations. As was noted, the modern world is in a phase of dynamic transformation, which provides a fundamental impact on traditional, theoretical, ideological and value-laden approaches. For the last two decades, the system of international relations endures various underlying structural changes.

 In the framework of discussion of this particular subject, Dr. Shigeki Hakamada, Chairman of the National Security Institute, Professor of “Aoyama Gakuin University” (Japan) came across the question of how Japan suffers the consequences of disaster at nuclear power plants Fukushima-1in the context of overcoming the modern technogenic crises. Thereat, he pointed out that a huge role is not only played by the effective system of management on resolving the crisis, but also on cultural and mental peculiarities of the people that face this problem. He particularly highlighted the developed over generations the quality of Japanese people such as self-control, stability, mutual help, obedience of law and order, helped in shortest time to evacuate people from the zone of reactor and to engage into effective elimination of disaster.

 In her speech, Dr. Shirin Akiner, Expert on Central Asian Region from the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK) addressed the issue of evolution of multilateralism and the prospects for global development. She pointed out that, for example, Europe was walking towards the idea of multilateralism and integration since the middle ages. Today the world is witnessing the emergence of Asia, and it affects the transformation of global processes in which the idea of partnership and “networking”, rather than absorption and domination are beginning to increasinglydominate. In this regard, S.Akiner highlighted SCO, primarily as an example of the “umbrella structure”, which demonstrates a high level of flexibility in its approaches.

Dr. Murat Laumulin, Chief Scientific Officer of the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan noted that if we evaluate the processes that are taking place today in Central Asia, the geopolitical factor in them are greatly outweighing, for example, in the resource capabilities. According to him, Central Asian countries have long been an integral part of a global system of international relations and one of the indicators for that is their full membership in many international organizations and financial institutions. M.Laumullin asserts that there is an orientation on Europe in the region, both on economic, informational and cultural terms, primarily in Kazakhstan. However, such a European dominance may still be questioned in the near future, because the region strengthening economic ties with China.

Dr. Valery Fadeev, Chief-editor of “Expert” magazine (Russia) in his speech mentioned the moral and ethical side of “soft power”. According to him, “soft power” is a powerful tool, while it can be used for both positive and negative purposes. V.Fadeev brought to the forefront the economic and technological factors as one of the elements of maintaining stability in Eurasia. He outlined the importance of ligament “European Union - Russia - Central Asia”, whereas Russia’s economic integration with the EU based on the formula “technology in exchange for resources and markets” should help to eliminate Russia’s technological lag. In case if such integration occurs, it shall then also benefit Central Asia, given the interconnectedness of the interests of all these actors.

The search for optimal strategies for the effective development and multi-beneficial cooperation, both on regional and global levels are relevant and important to the region of Central Asia and Uzbekistan in particular. In this context, Dr.Kirill Tanaev, Director General of the “Effective Policy Foundation” (Russia) underlined the importance of inter-state structures that operate in the CIS. Despite the fact that many of them pursue different goals, their positive impact is quite visible. For instance, the CIS has reduced the negative effect of disintegration of the former Soviet Union and helped to establish productive linkages between CIS countries on new and mutually beneficial grounds.

In the framework of roundtable, discussions concerning the prospects for global economic and financial system, changes of well-established political and economic balance of power, as well as opportunities of scientific and expert community to develop new concepts that can ensure the positive development of global processes were fruitfully discussed during the roundtable.

News report is prepared by the expert of the Center for Political Studies R.Ahmedov.    
Information above is based on the following online news sources: www.uzdaily.uz, www.mfa.uz, www.regnum.ru.