The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea: Losers and Winners
Journal: International Journal of Volga - Ural and Turkestan Studies
Year: 2025

The legal status of the Caspian Sea has led to one of the biggest debates since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. After a long period of time, with numerous joint and bilateral meetings, this international crisis ended in 2018 as a result of the signing of a document called the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea (CLSCS). In this article, the winning and losing sides amongst the signatories of the CLSCS were attempted to be determined by taking into account the new de facto situ