The Caspian Oil: Injecting Rivalry to Eurasia

The fall of the Soviet Union converted the international system and its actors because of itsinfluence on them and power distribution. Besides, it had some effects on various geographicalparts, both friends and enemies’ and created a new type of regional relation and competition.The transformation of regional countries’ Caucasian and Central Asian, condition, reinforcementof cultural and economic elements in relations among countries, the development ofnongovernmental actors in the sense of kind action and number, invigoration of non-governmentalelements such as human rights, faith, religion and nationality should be mentioned as the mostimportant effect of the Soviet Union dipolar government collapse.The general changes in the power of international system perspectives to strategic andgeostrategic regions and ups and downs of this geographic region have been a consequenceof this dipolar system collapsing. Upon this, we could observe the absence of the SovietUnion power in strategic and geographical regions including Caucasia and Central Asia. Inthese regions known as Eurasia, some contradictory trends have been revealed. On the onehand, The US government’s competition to complete the global hegemony and Russia’scompetition to complete a regional hegemony in Eurasia have been manifested.On the otherhand, Russia attempts to exercise influence in the region and create a regionalist hegemonyleaning against Moscow after the Putin era was witnessed. Also, the competition of China,Russia, Africa, Iran, India, Turkey along with the attitude of other countries in the region forreinforcement of convergence and divergence trends from Moscow create several trendsinEurasia which have reached their climax in Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Georgia and Caucasia.The primarily formed competition between America and Russia and the tendency ofboth toward completion of their hegemony in Eurasia from besides other national and7 regional trends caused two different probabilities which have been mentioned in the case of Eurasia:First, the hegemonist government of the USA could be prospered to compensateRussian absence in the region and make it a second grade power all over the world.Second, Russia would profit the Soviet Union contemporary heritage and maintain,develop and strengthen its competition with the USA.The persistence of this competition can cause bloody disputes, competitions and challengesin the region among Russian west-oriented countries.The purpose of this study is to understand regional and superregional actors fromthe various national, sub national and international angles and the combinationof them. Upon this, this paper tries to study The impact of the competition between the USand Russia on the regional changes through the related means such as OECD, WTO andPFP, CSTO of them and Shanghai Union.It also wishes to show that obtaining Eurasia regional crude oil and its distribution amongwest and Europe are discussed as a main reason for the USA and Russia competition.According to our investigation we believe that the establishment of oil and gas pipelines andits exportation to west can be brought up as the most important USA and Europe strategy fordistinguishing Caucasia and Central Asian countries from Russia and occupying its powerin the region which cause the economic, political, financial and martial independence ofother regional countries from Russia’s concentration.8