On June 30, 2011 Tashkent hosted the second session of the “Discussion club”. The event was organized by the Center for Political Studies.

Discussion Club is a platform for establishing a professional dialogue between foreign and Uzbek experts, as it serves as a kind of basis for generating new views and ideas that may influence the development of politico-economic school of Uzbekistan both on theoretical and practical levels and promote it in wider global intellectual space.

Current meeting of the “Discussion club” was the theme of “Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy in Eurasia: the formation of new parameters or the preservation of traditional approaches”.

 The meeting gathered specially invited leading international experts such as Andradnik Migranyan who is the Head of the New York office of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation (USA), Irina Isakova an independent expert on international affairs, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Royal Institute of Defense Studies and the  “Chatham House” (UK), Mikhail Leontyev, journalist, broadcaster, Editor in chief of journal “Odnako” (Russia), and senior correspondent on international issues of the journal “The Sunday Indian” Saurab Kumar Shahi.

The event was also attended by representatives of ministries and agencies, universities, scientific and analytical centers in Uzbekistan, as well as international organizations and diplomatic corps accredited in Tashkent.

During the “Discussion Club”, several issues related to the conceptual aspects of current American politics - values, political and economic benchmarks, and key ideologies and strategies have been discussed.

Moreover, experts addressed such issues associated with the future of the Afghan mission, the United States and the prospects of their policies after 2014, the impact of the revision of U.S. policy in Afghanistan based on their strategic policy in Central Asia as a whole and in the Greater Middle East

The fight against international terrorism and the search for a new paradigm of NATO have been also touched upon. A particular attention was paid to the so-called Chinese challenge as a vector of the North Atlantic Alliance.

A separate place in the agenda of “Discussion Club” was given to a block associated with problems in the U.S. economy and its impact on Washington’s geopolitical strategy in Eurasia and Central Asia in particular.

 In addition, a fruitful polemics on the issues related to the wave of instability in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as possible adjustments of U.S. strategy towards the Muslim world has been discussed.