The Collective Security Treaty Organization
Keywords:
Collective Security Treaty Organization, The Commonwealth of Independent States, postsoviet space, military cooperation
Abstract
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, security vacuum appeared in the postsoviet space. The USSR's successor states wanted a civilised disunion with the help of the Commonwealth of Independent States. For military security cooperation, they signed a treaty, the Collective Security Treaty in Tashkent in 1992. Due to their common aims and challenges, the members have developed close relations, and they established a new organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2002 and during the last years the CSTO passed through a remarkable development
