Security relations between the major powers (Russia and the United States) in the post-Soviet security complex before and after the Ukraine crisis

The contemporary international Security complex relations have been experiencing an era of stability in the post-Soviet-collapse. This literature attempts to describe and analyze the U.S.-Russia relations regarding their crisis management of security systems in Central Eurasia, and Ukrainian crisis, in particular, using library sources and a descriptive-analytical approach. Accordingly, the theory of security arrangements by David Lake, Patrick Morgan, and Paul A. Papayoanou raises the question of what particularly the security measures by which Russia and the US have managed conflicts are. The same is applicable for the aggressions in Central Eurasia and how the Crimean crisis has affected these patterns. The findings of this study show that both major powers have alternately used the six types of security arrangements Morgan, Lick, and Papayoanou, namely, hegemony, balance of power, Concert of Power, collective security, and pluralistic and convergent security societies. Although US security patterns in Central Eurasia remained stable after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and regime change, their priorities have always been to achieve global hegemony which aims for a continental concert policy in order to create, converge and expand a democratic security system. As well as the U.S., Russia has been adopting the same security measures in its near abroad. What is more, the Ukrainian crisis has been the vehicle for Russia to capitalize on the regional concert taking balance of power in both coercive and soft aspect in order to articulate its own regional collective security complex. .