Introduction, Shireen T. Hunter
Part I: Country Studies
Chapter 1: Twenty-Five Years On: Armenia’s Difficult Period of
State-Building, Richard Giragosian
Chapter 2: Azerbaijan Twenty-Five Years after Independence:
Accomplishments and Shortcomings, Eldar Mamedov
Chapter 3: Georgia’s pro-Western Policies: An Obsession or a
pragmatic Choice, Ghia Nodia
Part II: Policies of International and Regional Actors
Chapter 4: US Policy towards the South Caucasus: Reform,
Prosperity, Democracy, Richard Kauzlarich
Chapter 5: Russian Policy towards the South Caucasus: Security,
Unity, and Diversity, Sergey Markedonov
Chapter 6: The South Caucasus in the European Union’s Perspective:
Not a Single Region, Nona Mikhelidze
Chapter 7: Turkey’s Policy towards the South Caucasus:
Expectations, Failures and Achievements, Bulent Aras
Chapter 8: Iran and the Changing Geopolitics of the South Caucasus,
Mohaiddin Mesbahi and Mohammad Homayounvash
Chapter 9: Middle East Actors and Politics: Impact on the South
Caucasus, Shireen T. Hunter
Conclusion, Shireen T. Hunter
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.
*Shahram Akbarzadeh, Professor of Middle East and Central Asian
Politics, Deakin University*
Shireen T. Hunter, herself an expert in Caucasian and Central Asian
affairs, has gathered an exceptional team of specialists on the
local histories, recent experiences, and geopolitics affecting the
three South Caucasian republics—Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
Geography may be destiny, but surviving and thriving in an area
contested for centuries by Iran, Russia, and Turkey requires both
diplomatic and political skills as well as good luck. In essays
written with deep local knowledge and exceptional clarity, leading
specialists guide the reader through the intricacies and
complexities of the region. If you want to understand the past,
present, and the future of the South Caucasian peoples, this is the
book with which to begin.
*Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University
Professor of History and Political Science, University of
Michigan*
This study puts today's volatile South Caucasus in its proper
historical and geopolitical context. Readers new to the subject
will become conversant with the main issues; old hands will find
much to ponder and discuss. Shireen T. Hunter’s own unique
perspective is especially valuable.
*John Evans, former US ambassador to Armenia*
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