Timur Dadabaev is a Professor and Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His latest publications include Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Routledge, 2015) and Japan in Central Asia (Palgrave, 2016).

• 1 Discursive power of "Silk Road" in China, Japan and South Korea’s foreign policies toward Central Asia; 2 Evolution of the "Silk Road" into a foreign policy discourse; 3 Discourses of rivalry or rivalry of discourses?; 4 Japanese and Chinese infrastructure development strategies in Central Asia; 5 Chinese, Japanese and South Korean economic cooperation road maps for Uzbekistan; 6 The Chinese economic "offensive" in post-Karimov Uzbekistan; 7 Revisiting Japan’s Silk Road master-narratives; 8 South Korea’s modernizing power in Uzbekistan; Conclusions: the last Asian frontier?

Timur Dadabaev is a Professor and Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His latest publications include Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Routledge, 2015) and Japan in Central Asia (Palgrave, 2016).

• 1 Discursive power of "Silk Road" in China, Japan and South Korea’s foreign policies toward Central Asia; 2 Evolution of the "Silk Road" into a foreign policy discourse; 3 Discourses of rivalry or rivalry of discourses?; 4 Japanese and Chinese infrastructure development strategies in Central Asia; 5 Chinese, Japanese and South Korean economic cooperation road maps for Uzbekistan; 6 The Chinese economic "offensive" in post-Karimov Uzbekistan; 7 Revisiting Japan’s Silk Road master-narratives; 8 South Korea’s modernizing power in Uzbekistan; Conclusions: the last Asian frontier?

Timur Dadabaev is a Professor and Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His latest publications include Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Routledge, 2015) and Japan in Central Asia (Palgrave, 2016).

• 1 Discursive power of "Silk Road" in China, Japan and South Korea’s foreign policies toward Central Asia; 2 Evolution of the "Silk Road" into a foreign policy discourse; 3 Discourses of rivalry or rivalry of discourses?; 4 Japanese and Chinese infrastructure development strategies in Central Asia; 5 Chinese, Japanese and South Korean economic cooperation road maps for Uzbekistan; 6 The Chinese economic "offensive" in post-Karimov Uzbekistan; 7 Revisiting Japan’s Silk Road master-narratives; 8 South Korea’s modernizing power in Uzbekistan; Conclusions: the last Asian frontier?