This duality of religious, ethnic and linguistic identities has one important consequence: there is a cleavage between those who think that Moldovans has the same identity with Romanians and those who think that Moldovans has a distinct identity from Romanians. The second vertical competition is between national and neo-soviet identity. The second systemic threat is inadvertent threat to state-nation vulnerable states. Rating: 3. From all the regional players, the biggest stake belongs to Russia for which Central Asia is the southern component of its security space.
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