Aghasi Yenokyan
Director of the Armenian Center for Political and International Studies
“Improving Armenia’s Security Policy Debates” Program (NED)
The Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA)
Amid the largest security vacuum, emerged in the whole post-communist area after the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the former Soviet republics, in their initial quest for new security systems, were obliged to adopt various Russia–led formats, first and foremost CIS military-political bloc. Meanwhile such an option was categorically unacceptable for East European and Baltic countries, which became pioneers to declare on their aspiration on being under the NATO security umbrella. NATO …read more
Source: Aravot
