Blue Ocean Strategy for South Caucasus

... difficulties seem to stem from weak institutions, with an enforced political repetition compulsion [ 4 ] by elites and citizens alike, rather than from external threat(s) [ 5 ]. Nonetheless, the external threat is presented as the main one (e.g. Russia in Georgia and Turkey/Azerbaijan in Armenia), while the problems seem to be mostly domestic, having a lot to do with corruption or difficulties to accept the change of borders in the post-Soviet order. Towards the effective implementation of a Blue Ocean strategy in the South Caucasus A major obstacle to effective implementation of a Blue Ocean strategy in the region will come from the phenomenon of repetition compulsion and the fact that elites and citizens are not used to listening to another ...