, Whither regional economic integration? ? Current situation : weak regional integration, diverse levels of external vulnerability or even dependency ? Political barriers to regional integration ? Likely future of regional integration ? Economic opening of Uzbekistan

, External projects leading to connexions (BRI, EADB, CAREC) ? Two complementary scenarii: ? 1. Economic integration by means of markets

?. , Economic integration by means of policies

, ? Some promising areas for scenario 2 : energy, health, education, environment protection ? External actor might enhance their sponsorship of the regional integration process ? Sources, ? Jaborov S, pp.34-40, 2018.

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