(EPC/SAM) Lying at the crossroads between East and West and South and North, the South Caucasus is situated at the intersection of Eurasia's major energy and transport corridors. An important geostrategic region, for centuries it has been the theatre of competition between regional powers, including the Persian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires. While these empires may have disappeared, their successor states continue to jostle for influence along with new players, including the US, NATO, EU and China. Hence, despite being independent for more than two decades, the three South Caucasus states – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – continue to feel the influence and, in some cases, threat, of external actors.
Europeanisation and Georgian foreign policy
Russia's policies in the South Caucacus after the crisis in Ukraine: the vulnerabilities of realism
Azerbaijan's foreign policy – A new paradigm of careful pragmatism
Farhad Mammadov
Security challenges and conflict resolution efforts in the South Caucasus
Gulshan Pashayeva
Armenia – Stuck between a rock and a hard place
Dennis Sammut
Iran's policy in the South Caucasus – Between pragmatism and realpolitik
Amanda Paul
Trade, economic and energy cooperation: challenges for a fragmented region
Vusal Gasimli
NATO's South Caucasus paradigm: beyond 2014
Zaur Shiriyev
The EU and the South Caucasus – Time for a stocktake
Amanda Paul
Turkey's role in the South Caucasus: between fragmentation and integration
Cavid Veliyev
Policies from afar: the US options towards greater regional unity in the South Caucasus
Reshad Karimov
China in the South Caucasus: not a critical partnership but still needed
Mehmet Ögütçü
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