The Diplomatic Courier: "The evolution of Kazakhstan’s new “blue” foreign policy"

 

 

 

 "The evolution of Kazakhstan’s new “blue” foreign policy"

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

The Diplomatic Courier

10 June, 2025

Link: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/the-evolution-of-kazakhstans-new-blue-foreign-policy

Climate change, population growth, and water mismanagement make water resources a very sensitive topic in Central Asia. Kazakhstan should apply its multivector foreign policy to a new “blue” approach, writes Wilder Alejandro Sánchez.

 

Water has become the new gold due to droughts, flooding, desertification, the effect of climate change on these natural disasters, population growth, and water mismanagement. Accordingly, water sharing among countries is a sensitive topic. In Central Asia, for example, water resources are divided between the upstream and downstream nations. Kazakhstan’s focus on water management—and its history of mulitvector foreign policy—should give rise to a new approach to diplomacy.