초록 열기/닫기 버튼

키르기스스탄은 다자간 안보시스템에 의존한 군사안보 확보와 등거리 외교를 통한 국가안보를 국가정책의 주요 목표로 두고 추진하고 있다. 부연하자면, 중앙아시아의 소국으로서 자주권의 확립과 국가발전이라는 과제를 추진하기 위하여 나름의 군사안보정책을 통하여 해결점을 찾으려 한다는 것이다. 그러나 한 국가가 단순히 외교와 외부의 안보시스템에 의존하여 국가의 자주성과 발전을 담보할 수는 없을 것이다. 이 논문에서는 키르기스스탄의 국방력과 군사력을 해부해 봄으로써 키르기스스탄이 최소한의 자위적 차원의 국방력을 가지고 있는가를 살펴보는 것과 국방력 증강에 대한 가능성을 살펴보는 것이 중요하다고 본다. 해양세력과 대륙세력, 그 양대 세력의 신-그레이트 게임속에서 등거리외교와 다자간 안보협력기구를 통하여 국가자주성을 확보해 나가는 균형 외교전략의 한계와 미래를 살펴봄으로서 앞으로의 키르기스스탄 독립과 자주 문제를 파악, 예측 해 보는 것이 본 논문의 목적이다.


The regions of Central Asia have each acquired an elevated strategic importance in the new security paradigm of post-September 1lth. Comprised of five states, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Central Asia's newly enhanced strategic importance stems from several other factors, ranging from trans-national threats posed by Islamic extremism, drug production and trafficking, to the geopolitical threats inherent in the region's location as a crossroads between Russia, Southwest Asia and China. Although the U.S. military presence in the region began before September 11th, the region became an important platform for the projection of U.S. military power against the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. The analysis goes on to warn that 'with US troops already in place to varying extents in Central Asian states, it becomes particularly important to understand the faultlines, geography, and other challenges this part of the world presents'. The Kyrgyz military remains an embryonic force with a weak chain of command, the ground force built to Cold War standards, and an almost total lack of air capabilities. Training, discipline and desertion - at over 10 per cent, the highest among the Central Asian republics - continue to present major problems for the creation of combat-effective armed forces. Kyrgyzstan has a declared policy of national defence and independence without the use of non-conventional weapons. Kyrgyzstan participates in the regional security structures, such as the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) but, in security matters at least, it is dependent upon Russian support. The armed forces are poorly trained and ill-equipped to fulfil an effective counter-insurgency or counter-terrorist role. The task of rebuilding is much bigger, and so are the stakes – the integrity and sovereignty of the Kyrgyz state. Only democratization, the fight against corruption, reforms in the military and educational sectors and strategic initiatives promoting internal economic integration and national cohesion hold the key to Kyrgyzstan’s lasting future