Fear, Weakness and Power in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus
Fear, Weakness and Power in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus

Author: K. Oskanien

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1137026766

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This book provides a multi-level analysis of international security in the South Caucasus. Using an expanded and adapted version of Regional Security Complex Theory, it studies both material conditions and discourses of insecurity in its assessment of the region's possible transition towards a more peaceable future.

Fear, Weakness and Power in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus
Fear, Weakness and Power in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus

Author: K. Oskanien

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1137026766

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This book provides a multi-level analysis of international security in the South Caucasus. Using an expanded and adapted version of Regional Security Complex Theory, it studies both material conditions and discourses of insecurity in its assessment of the region's possible transition towards a more peaceable future.

The South Caucasus at the Crossroads
The South Caucasus at the Crossroads

Author: Elkhan Nuriyev

Publisher: Lit Verlag

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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Written by a highly respected expert in the field, this book addresses some of this little known region's most vital issues: territorial conflicts, oil and natural gas resources, geopolitical complexities and pipeline politics, as well as the successes and failures of democratic processes in the post-Soviet countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The future of these newly independent states; where Iran and Turkey, as well as Russia, the U.S. and the E.U. are vying for political and economic influence; is still being determined, and it is clearer every day that events in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea region have the potential to impact European security. The author looks at the challenges faced by these young South Caucasian countries and examines the prospects for future peace and prosperity in the region. The South Caucasus at the Crossroads is essential reading for students and researchers of post-Soviet history and Caucasus studies, sociology, Caspian Sea politics, political science, and international relations. Elkhan Nuriyev is the director of the Center for International Studies (CIS) and associate professor of political science and international affairs at the University of the Caucasus in Baku (Republic of Azerbaijan).

Karabakh and Abkhazia
Karabakh and Abkhazia

Author: Hratch Tchilingirian

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781366927606

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This book presents a discussion of inter-ethnic conflicts in post-Soviet South Caucasus and analyses of the struggle for independence in Nagorno Karabakh and Abkhazia, two failed Soviet autonomies, from a sociological perspective. Drawing on comparative case studies of the two former Soviet autonomies in the South Caucasus, the research demonstrates that a unidimensional analytical framework of inter-ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus does not adequately explain why ethnic groups struggle for independence. This sociological study argues that when social and political restructuring is resisted or ignored by a dominant social group over a long period of time, alternative measures are sought by minority groups either to force a change or to create a new social order, especially when 'historic' opportunities are presented. Minority-majority relations in the process of restructuring involve territorial claims, ethnicity, economic inequalities, cultural differences, religion, social customs, political inequalities, access to political power, and group interests.

The South Caucasus at the Crossroads
The South Caucasus at the Crossroads

Author: Mher Sahakyan

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

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The South Caucasus, straddling Asia and Europe, is a complex area of ethnic, nationalist and great-power rivalries. The post-Soviet Union era has been marked by flareups of military conflict and economic, social and political confrontation. Taking a regional perspective, AsiaGlobal Fellow 2020/21 Mher D Sahakyan analyzes the major issues at play and offers ways to resolve the tensions and differences among the countries involved.