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This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international
community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the South
Caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to
these efforts. The South Caucasus region has long been roiled by
the lingering ethno-national conflicts-Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia
conflicts within Georgia-that continue to disrupt security and
stability in the entire region. Throughout different phases of the
conflicts the international community has shown varying degrees of
activism in conflict resolution. For clarity purposes, it should be
emphasized that the notion of "international community" will be
confined to the relevant organizations that have palpable share in
the process-the UN, the OSCE, and the EU-and the states that have
the biggest impact on conflict resolution and the leverage on the
conflicting parties-Russia, Turkey, and the United States.
This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international
community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the South
Caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to
these efforts. The South Caucasus region has long been roiled by
the lingering ethno-national conflicts-Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia
conflicts within Georgia-that continue to disrupt security and
stability in the entire region. Throughout different phases of the
conflicts the international community has shown varying degrees of
activism in conflict resolution. For clarity purposes, it should be
emphasized that the notion of "international community" will be
confined to the relevant organizations that have palpable share in
the process-the UN, the OSCE, and the EU-and the states that have
the biggest impact on conflict resolution and the leverage on the
conflicting parties-Russia, Turkey, and the United States.
This scholarly work focuses on the roles of four institutions - the
UN, the CIS, the OSCE and the EU - in the process of conflict
resolution in South Caucasus and analysis of their effectiveness in
facilitating the achievement of final settlement. Although some
scholarly works have been previously written on the subject, the
originality to this work is added by virtue of the fact that it
attempts to explore the effectiveness and evaluate the policies of
these institutions by incorporating various assumptions of regime
theory, theoretical approaches to international mediation and
theoretical approaches to the study of European integration.
Moreover, provided that the in scholarly literature, regime theory
and its "effectiveness" concept were mostly researched and applied
to international environmental regimes, and study on the
effectiveness of non-environmental regimes from the perspective of
the regime theory seems lagging behind (however, this is not to say
that no work has been done), this work is one of the attempts to
fill this gap. Regime theory constitutes the main theoretical scope
of this work.
This work is one of the first attempts to analyze EU-South Caucasus
relations. The work gives a short overview to the EU-South Caucasus
relations in areas like trade, political and legal cooperation. Its
main focus, however, is the explanation of the factors accounting
for the increase of attention in the South Caucasus dimension of
the EU in 2000-2001. This limitation also helped to shed light on
EU policy towards the region in different periods: the period of
2000-2001, when the EU started to display more activism in the
region, and period of 1994-2000, when the EU's economic and
security interests in the region did not, however, trigger more
attention towards the republics. The work is also original due to
its incorporation of the assumptions of the mainstream
International Relations theories in the analysis of the researched
phenomenon. Thus, the author explains the increase of EU attention
towards the South Caucasus region from the perspective of three
theoretical approaches to International Relations: neoliberalism,
realism and constructivism.
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