By Richard Weitz
March 18th, 2016, The CACI Analyst
The states of Central Asia and the South Caucasus are in for a rough ride if recent Russian national security documents and speeches genuinely represent the Kremlin’s worldview. Not only do these texts veto their membership in NATO, but they exclude mutually profitable partnerships for these countries with the European Union and other Western institutions, constrain their domestic development, and encourage the suppression of civil liberties by warning of fictitious Western plots to change their regimes under the guise of democracy promotion and human rights.
- Russia
- Central Asia
- South Caucasus
- NATO
- Russian foreign policy
- Eurasian Union
- Russian National Security Strategy
- Georgia
- Afghanistan
- Russian world
- Eurasian Economic Union
- Ukraine
- WMDs