Energy-hungry Asian economies are highly dependent on imported oil and gas to fuel economic growth. However, the environmental challenges related to climate change and human security, as well as rising energy costs concerns, have affected how Asian governments regard the use of conventional hydrocarbon energy resources. Meanwhile, Russia and the Central Asian states have a significant proportion of the world's primary energy resources and are looking for ways to increase such exports to expand and diversify into new markets in Asia and Europe. This project analyzes the foreign and security implications resulting from the energy strategies of the various import and export governments. It also examines, within the theoretical and policy contexts, the extent to which this ever-growing regional concern could create opportunities for greater bilateral and multilateral cooperation and common benefit. Such developments could create permanent relations of mutual engagement and cooperative interdependence, and help mitigate the potential of conflict in this region.