Cooperation from Outside: Security Regionalism in Central Asia and Its Limits
Journal: Central Asian Affairs
Year: 2021

Abstract The degree of institutionalized cooperation on security among three or more of the five Central Asian states remains moderate. Currently, regional security is nurtured in part via frameworks provided by external state and nonstate partners. A rational institutionalist perspective has been invoked, suggesting demand for regional security cooperation. This view also insinuates that it would be reasonable for these five states, because of their limited resources, to rely largely on externa