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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 04/04
Security Sector Reform in the Southern Caucasus
Sir Garry Johnson
February 2004
Abstract
The dissolution of the Soviet Union left its former nations and those of the Warsaw Pact with a mammoth task of reform and restructuring to be carried out in all the political, social and economic spheres of national life. The fundamental challenge facing these countries was simple: could they modernise all the relevant aspects of their society well enough, and quickly enough, to claim a space in the successful community of the Western nations which had emerged strengthened from the Cold War while the window of integration opportunity remained open?
This contribution addresses security reform in the Caucasus from the perspective of a unique international organisation with experience of working in the field of security sector reform in some of the countries of the Former Soviet Union, namely the International Security Advisory Board, or ISAB for short . Although my focus will be on the Caucasus, I will draw upon the experiences of ISAB in the Baltic States as these are relevant both to that and in general terms for the future. I will start with a description of ISAB and how it works.
