Nation- State Building Challenges in Central Asia

After collapse of the soviet union, central Asian countries faced with challenges for a modern nation-state formation; enthusiasm from state building and war for power in one hand and border schisms, ethnicity and other happened crises, caused that the ensure of security faces withimportant barriers. Some believe that there were not nation- states building necessities in this region, and it need to some decades. This article with an analytical descriptive approach, explains nation- state building challenges. The aim is to answer this main question that what are the main challenges in this field? Authors believe that religious extremism and especially dominant political Islam, the lack of democracy and low fully civil institutes, lack of media pluralism, poverty and structural underdevelopment, multi rupture and traditional gaps including ethnic, religious and racial ones and lack of social society and education are the main challenges for state building in the region.