‍Central Asia and The Caucasus Journal

Abstract The crisis can destroy both the lives of people and the legitimacy of governments that provide security and prosperity; challenged and cost a lot. Natural crises that occur all over the world; In some regions, such as Central Asia, it is more extensive and numerous.  Using the experiences of other countries has a significant effect in reducing its destructive effects. For this purpose, this research aims to identify the crisis management and benefit from the common learnings of the three countries of Iran, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, and has done a comparative study and intends to answer the question of what are the differences and similarities in the type, history, structure and laws of crisis management in Do these countries exist? The study method is qualitative and the data collected from the crisis management documents of the selected countries have been analyzed using Max QDA software. The findings show that these countries, while having relative similarities in the type of crisis, although they differ slightly in terms of history and management structure; However, a comparative study of prevention, preparedness and facing crisis laws shows the difference in legislation, which has also led to different results in practice.

Abstract The behavioral model of the great powers in crisis management is of the important issues worthy of research, as a result of the structural change of the international system and becoming complicated after the “Cold War”. In the security policy making in the post-historical world, Russia still emphasizes on two elements of historical and geopolitical mentality. For this reason, it defines geopolitical codes of the peripheral regions (nearby foreign regions), on the basis of its interests. Accordingly, in the regional and international levels, the behavioral model of this actor in crisis management in the geopolitical domain of Soviet Union of Russia is under the influence of these factors. Therefore, the main question of this article is: What kind of impact the requirements of the geopolitical vision and code of the “Soviet Union of Russia Federation” have had on the management of this actor in Ukraine crisis? The hypothesis of this article is as follows: With consideration to the importance of the geopolitical sphere of the Soviet Union of Russia to revive Russian power, as well as the prominent and vital status of Ukraine in the geopolitical vision and code of this actor, the “Russian Federation” has acted intelligently in the crisis management arena of Ukraine and has combined hard and soft means with each other. The writing method of this article is explanatory-analytical, and through using library resources; also the required data has been collected.