Herausforderungen fur einen Nachbarn: Tadschikistans Verhaltnis zu Afghanistan

In: Welt-Trends: das außenpolitische Journal, Band 22, Heft 95, S. 91-99

Abstract

The withdrawal of ISAF provides Tajikistan serious challenges - to ensure their own security, the implementation of new economic opportunities, the intra-regional competition in respect of Afghanistan and the complex interplay of forces between the major players, such as the US, Russia, China, EU, but also the resurgent regional power Ensure like Iran, Pakistan and India. The political leadership of Tajikistan is aware that the security of the country without the restoration of security and stability in Afghanistan not aware afford. This are mainly the following reason applies: a common border of 1,344 kilometers; the close links between the population in the border areas of the two countries, especially in shared regions such as Badakhshan and Darvaz; forced by the transport blockade Uzbekistan reorientation of Tajikistan to the south over Afghan territory; the existence of transnational criminal groups that control the drug trade, smuggling, the Menschenund arms trade. Adapted from the source document.