edited by John F.R. Wright, Suzanne Goldenberg, Richard Schofield.
London :
UCL Press,
1996.
1 online resource (vii, 237 pages) :
illustrations
SOAS/GRC geopolitics series ;
4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Nationalities and borders in Transcaucasia and the northern Caucasus -- chapter 2 Russia and Transcaucasia -- chapter 3 Turkey, the Black Sea and Transcaucasia1 -- chapter 4 Condemned to react, unable to influence: Iran and Transcaucasia -- chapter 5 The Armenian presence in mountainous Karabakh -- chapter 6 The republic of Azerbaijan: notes on the state borders in the past and the present -- chapter 7 The geopolitics of Georgia -- chapter 8 The Georgian/South Ossetian territorial and boundary dispute -- chapter 9 Abkhazia: a problem of identity and ownership1.
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Transcaucasian boundaries"" provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union. The interplay between the former controlling powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia is examined, and the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabagh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are subject to expert analysis. The roles of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are considered in detail, their relative weakness having held back the transition towards democratic free-market entities of pluralist composition. Questions of minority rights, territorial settlement and the.