The relevance of the Central Asian phenomenon for researchers is increasing in proportion to the role of the region on the world stage: today, Central Asia is a kind of tangle, in which the interests of global powers, major economies, influential players, and many other factors intertwine tightly. What are the implications for the region of this confluence of circumstances, and can integration be the right solution for the Central Asian republics in the current geopolitical environment?The collection of articles "Central Asia at the Crossroads of Global Geopolitical Interests" is a collection of papers that have been tested at a number of academic conferences and forums.