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This contribution describes the recent developments in Central Asian States (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) pertaining to international law and foreign policy in 2020.Since Central Asia is featured in the Yearbook's State Practice Section for the first time, relevant developments immediately preceding 2020 are occasionally discussed as well, by way of introduction. KazakhstanOn 6 March 2020, the President of Kazakhstan approved a Foreign Policy Concept for 2020-2030 by Decree No. 280 (for the text of the Concept (in Russian), see: https://www.akorda.kz/ru/legal_acts/decrees/o-koncepcii-vnesh nei-politiki-respubliki-kazahstan-na-2020-2030-gody).The Concept discusses, in a comprehensive manner, Kazakhstan's prospective approaches to modern challenges such as (see Chapter 1 of the Concept): a crisis of confidence and an increase in conflict, including as a result of a decrease in the functionality of multilateral institutions for security and dialogue, the low effectiveness of preventive diplomacy and conflict resolution mechanisms; erosion of the fundamental principles of international law, a clash on a global scale of two main trends -globalism and nationalism, which creates serious risks for medium and small states; exacerbation of traditional challenges and threats to security, such as terrorism, extremism, the arms race, including missile, nuclear and space, climate change and a number of others;the emergence of new factors of influence on geopolitics and geoeconomics, including those related to the development of information Sergey Sayapin -9789004530973