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These views place state security at the centre of analysis, and focus mainly on military aspects of security. This article addresses the limitations of analyses of post-Soviet Eurasian security shaped by these two trends and puts forwards critical alternatives to analyse insecurity in this region. Building on insights from critical security studies, namely Ken Booth\u2019s work and his central concept of emancipation, as well as the nexus between human rights and security \u2013 human security \u2013, this paper presents a new framework of analysis for regional (in)security in post-Soviet Eurasia. 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