Russia and the South Caucasus


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2024-12-02

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Journal Issue

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This issue addresses Russia’s geopolitical and economic role in the South Caucasus with a first assessment of the dramatic shifts in recent years, most notably with the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 and Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2022. The first three contributions look at bilateral relations, examining how Georgia (covered by Kornely Kakachia), Azerbaijan (Nigar Gurbanli, Anar Valiyev) and Armenia (Narek Sukiasyan) position themselves vis-à-vis Russia and the West, most prominently the EU. Finally, Hannes Meissner and Johannes Leitner look at the relation between economic cooperation and geopolitics in a comparative perspective.

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322

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Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich

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Russian Federation; Azerbaijan; Armenia; Georgia; South Caucasus; Russian-Ukrainian War; Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020; economic cooperation; Geopolitics

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03515 - Wenger, Andreas / Wenger, Andreas check_circle

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Language Editor: Ellen Powell

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