... territory of the single state. One should keep in mind that going beyond the post-Soviet political geography was primarily
determined
by the situation in the Caucasus: among radical Jihadis fighting in the Middle East were quite a few natives of the Russian North Caucasus republics, of Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Whatever international security problems are put at the forefront today, thereby overshadowing the Caucasus challenges, this region retains its independent significance. The armed conflicts that accompanied the collapse of the ...
... context, Azerbaijan’s gas reserves in Caspian Sea have also had a critical role for both Turkey and the European countries. With the operation of Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum natural gas pipeline in late 2006, the strategic energy balance in the South Caucasus has substantially begun to change. Western-backed pipeline broke the hegemony of Russian energy power projections in the region. Azerbaijan is already supplying 12 percent (6 billion cubic meters) of Turkey’s total gas imports, and emerges as the third main gas supplier for Turkish market now, after Russia (%55) and Iran (%18).
Importing 99 percent of its gas needs from ...
... dynamics which made the mandates of these international organizations irrelevant to the new set of conditions that followed the events of August 2008
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In the politico-geographical introduction to his new report, Jos Boonstra identifies the South Caucasus as a region that “comprises the former Soviet states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.” From a legal point of view, he is absolutely right. With the exception of Russia and several countries of Latin America and Oceania, the international community recognizes Georgia within the borders of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, while the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is not recognized neither by ...
