Armenian Journal of Contemporary Issues No. 12 Julien Zarifian
South Caucasus geopolitics. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
Paris, Bibliothèque Nubar AGBU, 2010. 128 pages, 14.5 x 22 cm, softcover.
other hand, ethno-religious map of the assembly is relatively complex and the three main groups, but also the secondary groups in demographic terms (or Abkhazians Ossetians in Georgia, or Lezgins Talysh in Azerbaijan), regularly, throughout history, in competition or conflict between them.
The geopolitical balance of the last two decades, that is to say from the collapse of the USSR and independence of the three republics, are no exception to these historical characteristics that the Soviet interlude failed to erase or even to mitigate or transform.
Indeed, the 70 years of Soviet rule have solved any problems within the region, and its "crossroads of empires "Remains. The geopolitical situation is particularly complex because so today, while conflicts, sometimes old, woke up between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Georgia, against the background of nationalist pressure and political instability, large regional powers (Russia, Iran, Turkey), but also, now, global (particularly U.S. and European Union), seeking to locate or relocate in the region.
They are primarily motivated by the strategic position of these territories near the conflict zones of the North Caucasus, Kurdistan and even Iraq or Afghanistan, for the Caspian hydrocarbons and their transport to the west, north or south, or a logic of competition between them.
The region will therefore affirm, in the years 1990 and 2000 as a land of turmoil geopolitical importance, both in terms of geopolitics internal to the three republics, as regards the relations between them or with major regional and global powers. These are the turbulence that this study aims to decipher, focusing initially on regional conflicts, then exploring bilateral relations between the three developing countries and, finally, relations between the three republics and the powers that seek to play a role.
PhD in geopolitics and researcher at the French Institute of Geopolitics, University Paris 8, Julien Zarifian currently teaches at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. His research focuses on the foreign policy of the United States in the South Caucasus and Eurasia.
Geopolitics of the Caucasus territories to the south is marked by two major historical features. On the one hand this small geographical region, now comprised of former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, is located on the edge of great empires Eurasian, Russian, Iranian and Ottoman empires, which, traditionally, s' will face.
other hand, ethno-religious map of the assembly is relatively complex and the three main groups, but also the secondary groups in demographic terms (or Abkhazians Ossetians in Georgia, or Lezgins Talysh in Azerbaijan), regularly, throughout history, in competition or conflict between them.
The geopolitical balance of the last two decades, that is to say from the collapse of the USSR and independence of the three republics, are no exception to these historical characteristics that the Soviet interlude failed to erase or even to mitigate or transform.
Indeed, the 70 years of Soviet rule have solved any problems within the region, and its "crossroads of empires "Remains. The geopolitical situation is particularly complex because so today, while conflicts, sometimes old, woke up between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Georgia, against the background of nationalist pressure and political instability, large regional powers (Russia, Iran, Turkey), but also, now, global (particularly U.S. and European Union), seeking to locate or relocate in the region.
They are primarily motivated by the strategic position of these territories near the conflict zones of the North Caucasus, Kurdistan and even Iraq or Afghanistan, for the Caspian hydrocarbons and their transport to the west, north or south, or a logic of competition between them.
The region will therefore affirm, in the years 1990 and 2000 as a land of turmoil geopolitical importance, both in terms of geopolitics internal to the three republics, as regards the relations between them or with major regional and global powers. These are the turbulence that this study aims to decipher, focusing initially on regional conflicts, then exploring bilateral relations between the three developing countries and, finally, relations between the three republics and the powers that seek to play a role.
PhD in geopolitics and researcher at the French Institute of Geopolitics, University Paris 8, Julien Zarifian currently teaches at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. His research focuses on the foreign policy of the United States in the South Caucasus and Eurasia.
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