New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus

Shireen T. Hunter is research professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Shireen T. Hunter has brought together a truly international team of experts to examine the complex geopolitics of the South Caucasus. The breadth and depth of analysis on key questions—such as state-building, democracy, and US–Russian rivalry—present the reader with a rich and textured account of the region. This volume is a tour de force on the interplay of global and regional dynamics which have made the geopolitics of the South Caucasus a continuing source of challenges and opportunities.

• Introduction, Shireen T. HunterPart I: Country StudiesChapter 1: Twenty-Five Years On: Armenia’s Difficult Period of State-Building, Richard GiragosianChapter 2: Azerbaijan Twenty-Five Years after Independence: Accomplishments and Shortcomings, Eldar MamedovChapter 3: Georgia’s pro-Western Policies: An Obsession or a pragmatic Choice, Ghia NodiaPart II: Policies of International and Regional ActorsChapter 4: US Policy towards the South Caucasus: Reform, Prosperity, Democracy, Richard KauzlarichChapter 5: Russian Policy towards the South Caucasus: Security, Unity, and Diversity, Sergey MarkedonovChapter 6: The South Caucasus in the European Union’s Perspective: Not a Single Region, Nona MikhelidzeChapter 7: Turkey’s Policy towards the South Caucasus: Expectations, Failures and Achievements, Bulent ArasChapter 8: Iran and the Changing Geopolitics of the South Caucasus, Mohaiddin Mesbahi and Mohammad HomayounvashChapter 9: Middle East Actors and Politics: Impact on the South Caucasus, Shireen T. HunterConclusion, Shireen T. Hunter