Security Dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia - Tapa dura

The new states in Eurasia confront an array of difficulties in managing the legacy of the collapse of the Soviet Union and in forging new security policy identities. Some of these states still emphasize the need for integration with Russia; others insist on greater diversification and the need for broader multilateral security ties, or even the formation of regional blocs which exclude Russia. To explore the dynamics between these trends, this book focuses on the security policy thinking of Russia, the Ukraine, and the Central Asian and Caucasian states on their military and military-economic capabilities. It also addresses the larger framework of their international security relations and considers potential implications for the rest of Europe.

Roy Allison is head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He is the editor of Challenges for the Former Soviet South (Brookings /RIIA, 1996), and coauthor of Internal Factors in Russian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 1996). Christoph Bluth is a professor in the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Birmingham.