... interests in the South Caucasus are primarily pursued within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, encompassing geopolitical, geoeconomic, and security dimensions. Accordingly, China has sought to deepen diversified cooperation with Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia.
The South Caucasus is not only strategically significant but also a complex region characterized by sharply conflicting interests among major global powers. By leveraging its economic and technological cooperation opportunities,...
It is not only in Iran's interest, but also in the interest of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey, for Iran to reconnect to the Southern Caucasus railway network through both the Rasht-Astara and Julfa-Nakhichevan routes after three decades
The Jolfa–Nakhichevan railway, constructed 109 years ago, constitutes the cheapest,...
Georgian Dream will try to drive Western proxies out of Georgia, while the proxies themselves will simply try to survive, and right now the ruling party appears to have the upper hand
The First Georgian Dream
When Georgia’s behind-the-scenes billionaire ...
When the US demanded total self-sacrifice from the countries of the former Soviet Union, Georgia bucked the trend
Relations between Georgia and the West – which were already difficult – took a new turn last week when the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party said that funding of the opposition by the United States and the European ...
... ‘liberation’ of Ukrainian thinking from ‘colonial ties’. This is what Moscow should have been doing in all the former republics since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but lacked the initiative, while the U.S., if partially, achieved its goal in Georgia, and is now close to an even greater success in Ukraine. In this piece, we’ll seek to analyze what the term ‘decolonization’ really denotes drawing on the example of Georgia, which was not recently honored by some Western curators, because ...
... demonstration of resources and opportunities for confrontation.
However, before and after the “Hot August”, both Russia and the West were engaged “competitive cooperation” in the Caucasus despite a complete incompatibility of their positions regarding Georgia’s NATO membership. The OSCE Minsk Group on the Karabakh settlement, co-chaired by the U.S., France and Russia, survived not only the “five-day war” of 2008, but also the “Russian spring” of 2014. Two military escalations in the Karabakh ...
... keeps pre-existed status-quo: Russia in, the West out, Armenia and Azerbaijan on the brink of yet another military confrontation.
Source: Reuters
The Reaction
Taking this into consideration it is highly interesting how another South Caucasian state, Georgia, reacted on the processes? Analyzing an overall reaction of Georgian political establishment as well as a local academia, professor Ghia Nodia argued that no one actually expected any kind of revolution in the neighboring Armenia. Moreover, no ...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia has gone through a series of disasters, including a civil war, military conflicts in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali. Georgian raised against Georgian because of the ‘true values’, believing that there are ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ Georgians. To ...
Tbilisi has not opted for Russia or the West: Georgia goes first
When Russia’s special military operation commenced in Ukraine a year ago, not too many countries have surprised Moscow to the upside by their attitudes to the global changes. However, this was the case with Georgia. While the country ...
..., and with it a possible economic effect. At the same time, Armenia remains a vulnerable country. Excessive international turbulence and fluctuating commodity prices are not in its interests.
Part of the migration flow from Russia has also rushed to Georgia. Tbilisi has distanced itself from the sanctions war, not wanting to suffer losses in the Russian market. The country remains oriented towards the West, but clearly does not want to aggravate relations with Moscow. Georgia’s key interest is ...
