Regional Security Complexity in Post-Soviet Eurasia: CSTO Dilemma
Articles > Article · 2021
Authors: Zeynep Selin BALCI
Bölgesel Araştırmalar Dergisi, Refereed Journals of Other Institutions, International, Scopus, 2021, vol 5, pp 87-114
Summary
<p>This article aims to analyse CSTO, a regional security organization, according to two regional security theories and to explain CSTO’s challenges. It uses institutional design theory to follow the reasons behind having common values different than West’s and regional security complexes theory to understand the relationship of CSTO with its neighbours. As it aims to find organization’s positions in the challenges members face, CSTO’s reactions to Osh protests of 2010 and Armenian April Revolution of 2018 are analysed. It argues CSTO to be an organization that achieves its goals and is successful if not analysed from Western perspective.<br></p>