Securitization and Democracy in Eurasia Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region

“This comparative study examines the main approaches to the analysis of changes in the perception of modern dimensions of security in the OSCE region ... The use of a number of provisions of the concept of regional complexes of security and democratization as one of the starting points of this study makes it necessary to analyze the question of how structured the regional dimension of non-traditional security is in comparison with the global one … .” (Syuzanna Barseghyan and Svetlana Jilavyan, Journal of Political Science - Bulletin of Yerevan University, Vol. 2 (1), 2023)

Anja Mihr
is DAAD Associate Professor at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She is a professor of Human Rights, Governance, Public Policy, and Transitional Justice. She is the Founder and Program Director of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Center on Governance through Human Rights in Berlin in Germany.; and previously held professorships at the Willy-Brandt School of Public Policy, Erfurt University, Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), University of Utrecht, Netherlands.






Paolo Sorbello
is a researcher on Central Asian matters living in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is a freelance journalist and editor for various online publications. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow (UK), where he studied labor relations in Kazakhstan’s oil sector.






Brigitte Weiffen
is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), The Open University, UnitedKingdom, with research interests in comparative democratization and regional conflict and crisis management. She is also currently the Chair of Research Committee 34 “Quality of Democracy” of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). She has held visiting professorships at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and academic positions at the University of Konstanz and the University of Tübingen, both in Germany.