Table of Contents

Nationalities and borders in Transcaucasia and the Northern Caucasus, G. Joffe; Russia and Transcaucasia, Margot Light; condemned to act, unable to influence - Iran in Transcaucasia, Fred Halliday; Turkey, The Black Sea and Transcaucasia, William Hale; the Republic of Azerbaijan; notes on the state borders in the past and the present, Sulejman Alijarly; the Armenian presence in mountainous, Karabagh C. Walker; the internal cohesion of the Georgian state, John F.R. Wright; the Georgian/South Ossetian territorial and boundary dispute, Julian Birch; Abkhazia - a problem of identity and ownership, B.G. Hewitt.