CONTENT AND CONSEQUENCES OF UZBEKİSTAN'S NEW FOREİGN POLİCY MODEL

Abstract

The article focuses on the changes and transformations in Uzbekistan's foreign policy after 2016. The main topic of the article is to investigate the impact of the large-scale and comprehensive reforms initiated by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who was elected President of Uzbekistan in 2016, on foreign policy. The article seeks to answer the question of which priorities shaped the change and transformation in Uzbek foreign policy. To answer this question, the content of the post-2016 foreign policy is first analyzed. The new Uzbek foreign policy has abandoned the security-only approach that has dominated the past and now addresses security issues in the context of economic growth. The link between security issues and economic growth underpins the new foreign policy model. This assumption guided the fictional basis and methodological framework of the article. In the article, the concrete effects of the new foreign policy model are tested in detail in the context of regional transportation corridors and the Afghan issue. The article concludes that the foreign policy activities of Uzbekistan after 2016 have been shaped within the framework of a new model.