Paul Goble
Staunton, Oct. 24 – At the World Economic Forum in Davos last January, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that the former international order is being restructured and that “mid-level powers have an historic opportunity to pool resources, create coalitions and take part in the formation of new global rules.”
Among the countries taking part in that effort, according to a commentary on the Cronos.Asia portal, two post-Soviet states are especially prominent, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, a development that deserves more attention than it has received so far because it affects many places and not just their neighbors (cronos.asia/news/kazahstan-vhodit-v-bolshuyu-igru-srednih-derzhav/).
Kazakhstan’s Kasym-Jomart Tokayev and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev have both entered this new game, and it is time for those who analyze their regions to recognize that what is happening is a about more than just what they and other leaders in the former Soviet space had been about but rather about changing the international order as such.
The Cronos.Asia portal focuses on Kazakhstan’s activities but includes some involving Azerbaijan as such to make the point that the new world that is emerging needs a new optic rather than continuing to be interpreted as if the world had not changed in the direction Carney points to.
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