SECURITY AND INTEGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA: THE CSTO AND SCO
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Central Asia, security, regional integration, CSTO, SCO, the Taliban, Afghanistan.Abstract
The author analyzes the problems of Central Asian security and the role the CSTO and SCO play in ensuring it; he looks at the past, outlines the stages of building an efficient regional security system designed to oppose contemporary challenges, and concludes that regional integration as the only effective answer to the threats and challenges should be continued lest the region remains forever in an insecurity zone and falls behind the international community, which will deprive Central Asia of its chance for political and economic success.
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See: R. Burnashev, “On the Possibility of Having a Regional Security System in Central Asia (Methodological Issues),” Central Asia and the Caucasus, No. 1 (7), 2001.
See: B.F. Odinaeva, “Osobennosti narkosituatsii v Tsentralnoy Azii i sotrudnichestvo Tadzhikistana v borbe s nezakonnym oborotom narkotikov,” in: Materialy mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii “Rossia i Tsentralnaia Azia v usloviiakh geopoliticheskoy transformatsii: vneshnepoliticheskoe izmerenie,” Dushanbe, 2010, pp. 31-33.
See: S. Poya (expert at the Center for Contemporary Afghan Studies [CISA]), “Afghanskie marshruty na territorii SCO,” Afghanistan.Ru, 15 June, 2012.
See: Ibidem.
N. Kozyrev, “CSTO i SCO: vozmozhnaia rol v razviazyvanii ‘afghanskogo uzla’,” available at [http://aoganesyan.nteraffairs.ru/read.php?item=526], 22 December, 2010.
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