Changing security threat perceptions in Central Asia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12348561
AutoresKirill Nourzhanov (0000-0002-2680-5259, Arellano University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen63
Número1
Páginas85-104
Fecha de publicación2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal Of International Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-7718 • E-ISSN: 1465-332X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357710802666133
OpenAlexW2162212328
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas21

This article discusses the current process of securitisation in Central Asia and identifies its convoluted and faulty nature as a factor impeding collective security action in the region. It uses the Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) as an explanatory tool and posits that security discourse in — and about — the five former Soviet republics is dominated by geopolitical grand strategy on the one hand and by particularist concerns about lack of democracy or transnational threats on the other. Issues of conventional security involving two or more states, such as territorial disputes or resource management, are pushed aside and rarely securitised at the official level. The article outlines conceptual and institutional reasons for this bias, and argues that unless inter-state tensions are properly analysed, debated and addressed, the prospects for security and stability in the region will remain grim

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