CENTRAL ASIA is a land - locked region, which has no access to the world’s high seas, but in terms of natural resources, especially petroleum, natural gas and rare metals is very rich and has an important status in the world. For exporting these materials to world markets, the region is faced with some problems including banking and insurance systems, customs duties and laws, electronic commerce, and other legal and formal problems. Thus, it should be mentioned that CENTRAL ASIA is under consideration of those countries which need to have access to this region. On the other side, exporting available resources from CENTRAL ASIA to markets will bring revenues and incomes and in return, they pay it for importing goods and services they need. Two important transportation infrastructures, which are rival, has been established including “Transit Corridor of Europe, the Caucasus and ASIA” (TRACECA) in west - east direction and the other “North - South Transit Corridor” (NSTC) in north - south direction.

The emergence of Kushana in CENTRAL ASIA not only put an end to several local dynasties, but also prepared the grounds to play an important role in the trade routes. After occupying the territory of Greeco Bacterian and adopting Iranian culture, they put an end to the Indo Scythian and indo Parthian dynasties, becoming the sole ruler in the region and neighbors Parthian. Parthian in a protected war with Romans, concreted their power in Mesopotamia and made a suitable situation for the Kushana to control economic activities in northwest Iran and change the trade routes via their realm. In this paper we are going to investigate the appearance of Kushana in CENTRAL ASIA and the changes made in the political situation of the regions.

Ismailieh is a big branch of Shi'a religion. It has a long local history in the CENTRAL ASIA. Despite the relatively, few numbers of it's followers, because of the good solidarity of the community and their relationship with their Imam, who as the leader of the religion, is living in Europe , should be considered as an important community. Their Imam, Prince Karim Aga khan IV particularly for his global fame and mythical wealth, is an important figure. He, in addition to having good knowledge of the Western culture is interested in affairs of his followers, especially in Europe, and through transnational networks, manages and controls the Ismailia community. This article is to introduce the Ismailias of the CENTRAL ASIA through the places they live in, their livelihood, population, ethnicity, language, historic backgrounds, beliefs and their situation in the region.

Religion and politics in Muslim world are like two next-door neighbors. Current developments in the region, no matter they named as Arab spring, Islamic awakening or radicalism stress the mentioned fact. However, involvement of religion in politics is not inappropriate at all, probably these two are Janus-faced and they have synchronically showed tendency to each other: constructive and destructive; religious extremism and life healing aspects. The establishment of Islamic republic of Iran (1979) as a religious state has always brought to mind this dilemma in CENTRAL ASIA and Middle East. This paper trying to evaluate the religious politics in CENTRAL ASIA and Iranian foreign policy in this region.

CENTRAL ASIA is such an important geo-strategic and geo-cultural region in the world that the theorists of international relations have analogically described it, in terms of geographic and economic aspects, as the second Middle East.Due to the huge reserves of oil and gas, CENTRAL ASIA and Caspian Sea littoral states and the Caucasus region are regarded enormously important not only for the countries in the region, but also for those superpower countries such as America and China. The interaction among global and regional powers in CENTRAL ASIA is a complex issue where every power would face some restrictions in the pursuit of its power and ambition.Of those regional powers and key actors in the CENTRAL ASIA, one can refer to Iran, Turkey and Israel, in which Iran has the best chance to advance its objectives successfully in this region.

Human trafficking is one form of organized crime with 7 to 10 billion dollars profit next to drug and weapon trades. Former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe have become the newest sources of human trafficking, for Europe and North America for the purpose of sexual exploitation. This article is a result in causes of human trafficking in CENTRAL ASIAn republic of the former Soviet Union.

Preventive Diplomacy, a concept promoted more than fifty years ago by Dag Hammarskjöld, former UN Secretary General, is now being institutionalized through United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for CENTRAL ASIA (UNRCCA), which is established for the purpose of peaceful settlements of disputes, and prevention of conflicts by using preventive and early warning mechanisms. The center is tasked with providing assistance and support to CENTRAL ASIAn states, and capacity building to prevent challenges that are potential issues of conflict within the region. This article will define the concept of preventive diplomacy and explain regional crises, and then assess UNRCCA's activities in order to analyze the capacity of this organization in confronting regional security threats.

Waterways and rivers forming the borders of many countries in the world, and unlike land borders, River water borders and boundaries, particularly because of their specific strengths and weaknesses are creating more tension and crisis areas. Two major rivers Amu Darya and garlic in CENTRAL ASIA along with its subsidiaries, is the The issues and challenges involved in the five countries of the region is made. In fact, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as some other areas, the regional heritage incoherent and incorrect management of shared water resources by the Soviet Union. This cross-sectional study using the Amudarya and Syrdarya rivers in the area between hydropolitic countries deals The most important issues and escalate disputes and causes of trans-boundary rivers in the region studied and analyzed the. Research findings show that the different interests of upstream and downstream countries, mismanagement, extensive dam-building, climate change, the involvement of regional and trans-regional powers, population growth, urbanization and agricultural monoculture of the main causes of border disputes over water resources are shared.