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Israel and Central Asia: Opportunities and Limits for Partnership in a Post-Arab Spring World July 18, 2012 / Marlène Laruelle
Central Asian governments are just beginning to measure the effects of the changes of the Arab Spring on the emerging regional order. Central Asia is not part of the Middle East; however, it has direct relations with many of its actors, namely Turkey and Iran, as well as a growing relationship with both Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The post-Arab Spring regional order has jeopardized Israel’s geostrategic balance, and so that country is looking to deepen alliances in the Muslim world. Central Asian nations can fill that role.



