Issue 2

The sudden and dramatic collapse of the USSR at the end of 1991 caused Central Asia’s newly emergent States – over a dozen of them – to grapple with a kind of legal renaissance.

The ecosystem of international arbitration, comprising international covenants, national legislation, institutional rules, and soft law, creates a comprehensive framework for dispute resolution.

In February 2024, Russia's invasion of Ukraine intensified the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War which began in 2014 with ‘Crimean Crisis’.