Central Asia Countries in a Changing World: Prospects and Opportunities for Strategic Partnership

This article is devoted to studying the issue of expanding the facets of mutually beneficial cooperation and interaction between Kazakhstan and the countries of the Asian continent. The methodology for writing the work is based on the use of the SWOT analysis method with consideration of the following factors: economic, social, cultural - humanitarian, environmental and others. The main objectives of the study are to examine the potential of partner countries, opportunities and trends in cooperation with Kazakhstan. The novelty of the study includes the development of recommendations for optimizing the international agenda based on the analysis. The results of the study consist in forming an idea of ​​the current situation of the partner countries, as well as the priority areas of development for Kazakhstan in the present period and in the medium term. The authors came to the conclusion that the development of economic cooperation with the countries of the East is especially important: the Arab world (Middle East), the Turkic world, Central and South Asia, East and Southeast Asia. In the conditions of the new political reality, it is legitimate to use the main factors to create a universal Kazakh-Asian platform that combines the potential and resources of our country and the countries of the East and provides a wide range of opportunities and deepening the facets for practical interaction and effective cooperation of the countries in question.