CIAO DATE: 04/2010
November 2009
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
The absence of a functional government in Afghanistan has been creating economic and security challenges for the Central Asian states since their founding in 1991. Long frustrated by the international community's failure to end the Afghan civil war through negotiation, the 2001 September 11 attack created the expectation among these countries that the US would intervene successfully in Afghanistan, leading to an economic recovery that would advance the development of all the states in the region.
Resource link: Central Asia: Living in Afghanistan's shadow [PDF] - 475K