No. 322: Russia and the South Caucasus

Author(s): Kornley Kakachia, Nigar Gurbanli, Anar Valiyev, Narek Sukiasyan, Hannes Meissner, Johannes Leitner
Series Editor(s): Fabian Burkhardt, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 322
Publisher(s): 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
Publication Year: 2024

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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