Abstract
The collapse of the Soviet Union transformed the Eurasian security landscape, altering security concerns and priorities across the former Soviet space. In post-Soviet Central Asia a number of major security events have occurred and security challenges developed, including a full-scale civil war in Tajikistan (1992–97), armed incursions by anti-regime groups into the Ferghana Valley (taking and holding sovereign territory of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in 1999 and 2000), a number of terrorist bombings and leadership assassination attempts, the functioning of terrorist and separatists groups, the US-led NATO operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan from 2002 onwards, the ‘Tulip Revolution’ and civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan in 2005 and 2010, the Andijan uprising in Uzbekistan in 2005 and the development of ever-expanding networks of organised crime and the narcotics trade across the region.
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Aris, S. (2011). The SCO’s Approach to Regional Security: Conceptions, Foci and Practices — Regional Security Governance in Eurasia?. In: Eurasian Regionalism. Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307643_5
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