러시아ㆍ유라시아

The Reorientation of Uzbekistan's Foreign Policy toward the U.S. and Russia Kang Bong Koo The Uzbekistan's foreign policy formation has been based on the fact that Uzbekistan was a new, and small nation. That constituted a distinguished feature of Uzbekistan's foreign policy orientation. Since her independence, Tashkent had sought for an independent foreign policy to strengthen stateness as a sovereign state(1991-1998). Secondly, Tashkent, aligning herself with the U.S., opted for a balancing policy to constrain Russian influence on Uzbekistan(1999-2003). But the U.S. policy of “The Ad-vance of Freedom and Democracy” posited a serious threat to Karimov's authoritarian regime along with the outbreak of “color revolutions” in some post-communist states. As a part of the efforts to curb the threat to Karimov's regime, Tashkent returned to an alliance policy with Russia, which was not seeking for a regime transformation and value change in Uzbekistan(2004-). It was the priority policy goal of preserving an authoritar-ian regime that kept Tashkent from seeking simultaneously two different foreign policy goals of economic support and security guarantee from the West on the one hand, and balancing Russian power and influence on Uzbekistan on the other.