South caucasus georgia, armenia, azerbaijan switzerlands involvement in the south caucasus is aimed at the needs and priorities of its three partner states in the region. Because of its strategic position, moreover, the caucasus was regularly the object of territorial conflicts between, inter alia, the persian, ottoman and russian empires. The issue begins with three essays examining the influence of the external actors on the conflicts in the south caucasus. The north caucasus has constituted the most unstable part of postsoviet russia. Minority rights group international e p o the south. Change agents network for transformative change in the south caucasus.
Our policy work focuses on several key themes that influence prospects for peace and security the economy, climate change, gender, the role of international institutions, the impact. Pdf located at the crossroads of russia, the rest of europe, and the middle. We work in africa, several parts of asia, the south caucasus, the middle east and latin america, and have recently started work in the uk. The conflicts in the south caucasus and their impact on the eastern partnership 5 interest to take part in the resolution of the conflicts and in the stabilization of the south caucasus region since the early 1990s, the question on the eus commitment to engage was. The third phase comprised a training strand, using the findings of the other two strands to develop and. General overview of the south caucasian conflicts aegee. Caucasus world series editor nicholas awde other books in the series include.
The eu and the south caucasus 25 years since independence. The scan network will include social change agents, partners and investorsdonors who are interested and become engaged in the initiative. The states themselves contain diverse populations, reflecting the history of the caucasus as a frontier of europe, russia, turkey, and iran, all of which remain important actors in the region. The tenuous political situation in the south caucasus has. Summary the south caucasus continues to be critically important to. Peace in the south caucasus of the imagine center for conflict transformation in partnership with the center for independent social research. For centuries, the south caucasus was a region where external powers exercised strong influence. Therefore, the countries of the south caucasus are not interested in joining the eau, but at the same.
The south caucasus corridor has also been considered for transporting kazakhstans gas to european markets. Karabakh and south ossetiaabchasia only acerbated the intensity of flows. The blend of blatnoy and traditional caucasian values. South caucasus railroad lines more detailed ethnolinguistic map of the north and south caucasus, with language family sorting nb. Care international in the caucasus continues implementing development projects aligning its objectives with the programme goal.
The policy paper is devoted to the assessment of the relevant agenda of international relations in the south caucasus region, analyzing various official strategic documents from georgia, armenia, and azerbaijan, the main keys of regional economic. Pdf conflict resolution in south caucasus download full. Retracing the caucasian circle considerations and constraints for u. This new issue, titled political transitions and conflicts in the south caucasus, is coauthored by researchers and analysts from armenia, azerbaijan, georgia, russia, turkey, and the united kingdom. A reflection on 15 years of conflict transformation initiatives. The soviet union and the making of abkhazia, south ossetia and nagorno karabakh.
Deconflicting protracted conflicts in the south caucasus. It focuses on making economic development inclusive and sustainable, improving the efficiency. Geographic proximity, energy resources, pipelines and the challenges of international crime and trafficking make stability in the region a clear eu interest. Combining external advisors, government officials and representatives. Kazakhstan and the south caucasus corridor in the wake of. The southern caucasus pheasant this is the nominal form. Pdf frozen and freezing conflicts in eastern europe and.
At present, kazakhstans government officially states that. Instability in the south caucasus is a threat to european union eu security. The paper focuses on the process of frozen or freezing conflicts in the postsoviet area and how they influence regional security in eastern europe and south caucasus. The key argument advanced is that the almost threeyearlong war in eastern.
In the south caucasus the active process of national state building did not take place in the first half of the 20 th c. The eu maintains relationships with the region for over two decades but a clear strategic vision is missing. The role of the eu and nato 6th workshop of the study group regional stability in the south caucasus vienna, january 20. One region of the country, the transcaucasus or south caucasus, also fell apart. Azerbaijansforeign policy and perceptions of the eu 61 iv. It focuses on making economic development inclusive and sustainable, improving the efficiency of democratic institutions and human security. To remedy this situation, this paper calls for a new strategy toward the caucasus. Changing perceptions of the west in the south caucasus. The south caucasus is an extraordinarily complex region in many ways. The south caucasus archive of european integration. Caucasus online is the leading telecommunications company in the region. Caucasus online was formed in 2006 by the merger of major georgian isps. Russian dominance than on mutual interest in integra tion. The eu neighbourhood barometer for georgia2, conducted in the framework of an eufunded opinion polling project for the neighbourhood, found that 69%.
Political leaderships throughout the south caucasus have striven to maximize. Caucasus network, georgia online, sanet and telenet caucasus network was founded in 1998, one of the countrys first internet providers. History lessons of the 20th century introduced by the south caucasus regional office of the heinrich boell foundation, is the collection of scientific articles prepared by authors from armenia, azerbaijan, georgia, and turkey presenting the research and. The goal of this merger was to foster more collaborative efforts in the development and implementation of the federal government of germanys international cooperation projects. Emerging eu vision and policies on the south caucasus 52 iii. Retracing the caucasian circle brookings institution. From war economy to peace economy in the south caucasus international alert, 2004, corruption and conflict in the south caucasus international alert, 2006 and others as well as articles and training manuals on conflict transformation, democracy building in transitional societies and mass media. Before concluding, the paper analyses specific eu democracybuilding initiatives in the south caucasus countries and discusses whether the eus activities have addressed protracted conflicts and indicators of. In this strategically sensitive region, surrounded by russia, turkey, iran, and the. Scp south caucasus pipeline scpx south caucasus pipeline expansion sgc southern gas corridor tanap transanatolian pipeline tap transadriatic pipeline tbp transbalkan pipeline. This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the caucasus in the 1920s the transitional period from russian empire to soviet union. Since the industrial revolution the geopolitics of energy who supplies it and securing reliable access to those supplies have been the driving factors in global prosperity and security. A strategic conflict analysis of the south caucasus of the.
Yet, the unresolved nagornokarabakh, abkhazian and south ossetian conflicts have the potential to ignite into fullfledged wars in europes neighbourhood. Kmg enlists the transcaspian gas pipeline that would connect aktau with baku and use of the south caucasus gas infrastructure among the potential routes for produced gas. Geographically, the caucasus and its mountain ranges are considered part of the natural. This escalation also created numerous groups of internally displaced persons idps and refugees. The case of the south caucasus 2 iris kempe, berlin is the south caucasus a region. The perpetual presence of these groups in south caucasus is a stable element of the migratory landscape of the region. Nationalism, conflict and minorities the south caucasus. South caucasus is a crucial area enabling the connection etween nato territory and militaryb operations in afghanistan and staging areas in central asia. While independence has changed the situation and autonomous states evolved after the breakdown of the soviet union, both dependencies from and necessary partner ships with powerful neighbours s are still. An experiment in holistic peacebuilding gevorg tergabrielyan chapter 10 195 the phenomenon of the caucasus forum zhanna krikorova chapter 11 210 remembering the forgotten alan parastaev part 5.
Explaining ethnic conflict in the south caucasus i. South caucasus pipeline expansion project scpx and land purchase practices in georgia october, 2015 project description the south caucasus pipeline scp originates at the sangachal terminal, which is located approximately 45km south of baku, and traverses azerbaijan and georgia before terminating at erzurum in eastern turkey. A western strategy for the south caucasus 7 the resort to fingerpointing and hectoring in the promotion of democracy and human rights has been deeply ineffective, alienating governments rather than influencing them. Pdf the south caucasus and the growing influence of russia. Transcaucasia spans the southern portion of the caucasus mountains and their lowlands, straddling the border between the continents of europe and asia, and extending southwards from the southern part of the greater caucasus mountain range of southwestern russia to the turkish and armenian borders, and from the black sea in the west to the caspian sea coast of iran in the east. The south caucasus 1 promotion of assistance for common issues among the three countries opportunities for exchange of opinions and interaction among the three countries should be created through the assistance on the issues common to them. For the united states, nato and the eu, the south caucasus is an area of opportunity, in terms of the exploitation of the regions energy reserves, its geographic position and the presence of the moderate muslim state of azerbaijan. Throughout history, the south caucasus has been a fault zone between east and west. The caucasus contains two eponymous mountain ranges. While independence has changed the situation and autonomous states evolved after the breakdown of the soviet union, both dependencies from and necessary partner ships with. The issue is coauthored by 18 journalists, analysts, and social scientists from the south caucasus, as well as turkey and russia that have jointly engaged in. Breaking up the south caucasus when the ussr disintegrated in 1991, it was not only the state as a whole that collapsed.
The south caucasus has historically been known to be a crossing point of trade roads from the mediterranean to china and from the baltic sea to the arab world. These pheasants phasianus colchicus colchicus derive their name from colchicus legend of jason and the argonauts, which would have seen beautiful birds on the banks of the river phase greek word in the country of colchis rioni in kolkheti west of the republic of georgia today. By anna matveeva r e p o r t minority rights group international an mrg international report south caucasus. The giz programme advisory services for legal and judicial reform in the south caucasus, established in 2010, has both regional and transnational networks. Baddeley, with a new preface by moshe gammer storm over the caucasus. Challenges to international efforts by esmira jafarova this book aims to highlight the efforts by the international community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the south caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to these efforts. Azerbaijans new foreign policy priorities was its joining of the nonaligned. Finding a way forward 80 references 86 kak ha gogolashvili the eu and georgia. Before dealing with the more geopolitically volatile south or trans caucasus, a look at the north caucasus is in order. Yet the important geopolitical location of the south caucasus has been as much, if not more, of a liability as an asset to the. This settles a key quantitative measure of success. Challenges to the south caucasus regional security.
South caucasus pipeline expansion project scpx and land. The csis russia and eurasia program tracks developments in this complex and strategically important region and produces. April 1 survey of georgian public opinion february 21march 3 2009. The south caucasus between the eu and the eurasian union h d no. Prior to joining carnegie, rumer was the national intelligence officer for russia and.
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