russia and central asia: drafting for regional international society

with the collapse of soviet :union:, central asian countries came into independence. the countries were neglected by russia during the first years after their formation. this encouraged other regional and trans-regional powers to interfere in the region and try to maximize their interests. shifting its foreign-policy process, russia kept its eyes on look-east policy and tried to prevent others to increase their influence in the region. russian long dominance on the region as well as historical interactions allows it to form a regional international society and catalyze integration between the country and central asian countries. main question here is why russia and central asian countries are able to constitute a regional international society. it seems that cultural-historical relations between russia and central asian countries in one hand and their increasing functional-economic interactions on the other hand, prepare them to form a regional international society. cultural-historical relations will be studied in framework of joint historical experience, mutual migration, and spread of russian language in the region. on the other hand, economic relationships and order-making process will be related in functional aspect. assessing the hypothesis, we believe that english school theory of international relation and descriptive-analytical method will be useful.