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- Title: Foreign Policies of the States of the Caucasus: Evolution in the Post-Soviet Period/Kafkasya Ulkelerinin Dis Politikalari: Sovyetler Sonrasi Donemdeki Evrimleri (Report)
- Author : Brenda Shaffer
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 109 KB
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Almost two decades have elapsed since the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of the post-Soviet states. This article examines the foreign policies of the three states of the Caucasus -Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia- in the post-independence period. The article will look at the strategic and foreign policy environment that the three states inherited at independence and the major changes in that strategic milieu over time. It will also examine the main goals of the states' foreign policies and strategies, and their development over the last two decades. The article makes a number of main points. First, ideology and identity have had little impact on the alliances and foreign policy orientations adopted by the three states in the Caucasus in the post-Soviet period. Second, despite inheriting similar post-Soviet legacies, the three states of the Caucasus adopted fundamentally different policies toward Russia, the most dominant power in the Caucasus in the post-Soviet period. Third, geographic factors have had significant influence on the foreign policy options and constraints of the states of the Caucasus. Fourth, managing the results of the secessionist conflicts that afflicted each of the three states has been a major goal of their foreign policy efforts in the post-Soviet period and the conflicts have served as a critical constraint on their policy options as well as a useful lever of neighboring powers. Fifth, the foreign policy making capability of the three states has expanded significantly in the second decade after independence of the three states. Last, at the same time, the foreign policy options of the three states have been limited by the policies of the major powers in the region.
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