2025: Special Issue
Articles

L’Uzbekistan nella Maggioranza Globale: Protagonista della Ri-globalizzazione?

Frank Maracchione
School of Economics, Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, Canterbury, Regno Unito

Published 2025-07-04

Keywords

  • re-globalization,
  • Uzbekistan,
  • deglobalization,
  • WTO,
  • China

How to Cite

Maracchione, F. (2025). L’Uzbekistan nella Maggioranza Globale: Protagonista della Ri-globalizzazione?. ASIAC – Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus (SCC), 39–56. https://doi.org/10.36253/asiac-3579

Abstract

The global polycrisis has raised questions about the resilience of economic globalisation and the dynamics of deglobalisation, with significant implications for the economies of the Global Majority. Uzbekistan, historically protectionist under Islam Karimov, embarked on a path of economic liberalisation in 2016 under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. However, recent global crises have cast doubt on the sustainability of this trajectory. Adopting a constructivist perspective within the field of International Political Economy, this article analyses how national and international actors construct the meaning of economic and political crisis. Based on official documents and 54 interviews, the study argues that Uzbekistan is not undergoing a process of deglobalisation. It is in fact deepening its integration into global economic networks, with a particular emphasis on South-South ties, particularly with China. Uzbekistan's liberalisation thus emerges not as a mere adaptation, but as a normative reformulation that redefines the country’s position within a globalisation increasingly shaped by the Global Majority.

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