View from Georgia

Mamuka Bichashvili
Doctor of Philosophy; Professor, Tbilisi State University

Regionalism in the Foreign Policy of the South Caucasian States

There are, or course, many examples of when one country of the South Caucasian region or another has taken initiatives in support of its neighbors. For example, Georgia, which was first among the Caucasian states to be admitted to the European Parliament, later recommended that Armenia and Azerbaijan be admitted to the organization; Armenia has made proposals on the peaceful settlement of the Georgian-Azerbaijani conflict, etc. more

View from Azerbaijan

Emin Makhmudov
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Zerkalo daily newspaper

The problem of South Caucasian security and integration today

Since they gained independence, the republics of the South Caucasus have seen the emergence of several hotbeds of interethnic conflict, mainly as a result of the former imperial policy of Russia. Russia unscrupulously unified nations inhabiting the region, and set the boundaries among the three main national subjects at its own discretion, while crudely destroying the framework developed over their centuries-old history. more

View from Armenia

Yepraksya Mamikonyan
Analytical Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation

Possibilities for regional cooperation in the South Caucasus

Regional cooperation implies that the states elaborate a common position regarding certain issues of foreign policy, economic integration, the creation of a single system of security, a visa-free traveling regime for the citizens inside the region, and much more. Because the ongoing conflicts in the South Caucasus remain unsettled, it is difficult to speak about such cooperation. more

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Simurg Cultural Association of Azerbaijan
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Armat Center for Democracy and Civil Society Development (Armenia)
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We and Our Neighbours: Three Views on Trans-Caucasus

To what extent are the internal political and public processes taking place in the Transcaucasian states similar or diverse? Who will at last be able to settle the ongoing conflicts in the region - the people, their leaders or the mediators? How to survive at the crossroads of various geopolitical trends? What are the limits of security of the countries of the region?
These and other questions are examined by experts from Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in their articles on the following subjects:

• Problems of South Caucasian security and integration today
• Conflicts in the South Caucasus (Georgian-Abkhazian, the Karabakh conflict, the Tskhinvali conflict)
• The South Caucasus at the crossroads of geopolitical interests
• Internal political and social processes in the states of the South Caucasu