Afghanistan: New Mission, Old Problems

... individual attacks may be expected, posing grave risks of destabilization for the countries involved. Due to the poor governance in the post-Soviet space, Russia will also suffer from the aftereffects emanating from any disturbance on the borders with its Central Asian underbelly. As of now, one way out appears to lie in SCO-based cooperation, military-technical assistance to former Soviet republics via the CSTO, and interaction with Western forces in Afghanistan in order to ensure a effective response to extremist provocation and to prevent terrorism spreading beyond Afghanistan’s borders. Moreover, the SCO and CSTO would only gain from making a joint ...