Abstract
This paper analyzes the problems associated with determining the location of post-Soviet states of Central Asia in the modern world politics. The following issues are of central attention: characteristics of the Central Asian Region (CAR), features of its political transformation, traditional and nontraditional security challenges, “multi-vector” foreign relations of the CAR, the European dimension (European Union and Russia) in their foreign policy cooperation with major regional states of Asia and the Middle East, the prospects of international relations of Central Asian states and its role in the world politics.