In the context of global security challanges that spread across the Middle East and North Africa dramatically reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the region more than anything else demonstrated the importance of ensuring international and regional security. The newly unstable security environment has created an array of challenges for Eurasia in general and for the Caspain Sea region in particular. Nowadays, the Caspain region has its own specific security related issues such as unresolved legal status of the Caspian Sea or continuing dispute over the offshore crossborder oil and gas deposits, which could also cause a number of complications. Combining with trend for the militarization of the Caspian Sea it has become obvious that littoral states should focus on the need for maintaining constructive dialogue and deepening collaboration in the sphere of security. Therefore, the working paper is dedicated to current prospect of cooperarion among the Caspian Littoral states on the issue of security. The author studied the internal and external threats to the Caspian regional security indicating the possible forms of military cooperation between the countries of the Caspian Five and evaluating their Caspian Navy Forces potential.
Lydiya Parkhomchik (nee Timofeyenko) was born on February 9, 1984 in Zelenodolsk city, located at the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia). Since 1986 she became resident of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She graduated the high school in 2001 and at the same year she admitted to Abylai khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages. She graduated from International Relations Department with specialization of analyst with knowledge of a foreign language in 2006 and after that started to work as a lecturer at the Chair of International Relations of KazUIR & WL.