The Conflict Potential of the South Caucasus: Geopolitical Dimension

The Conflict Potential
of the South Caucasus: Geopolitical Dimension

By Gayane Novikova and Sergey Sargsyan Translated by Ashot Melyan

Contents	7
Introduction	9
Chapter One The Conflict in South Ossetia: History, Diplomacy and the War	13
Chapter Two The Abkhazian Conflict: Background, Development, and the Current Stage	45
Chapter Three Samtskhe-Javakheti/ Javakhk in the Context of the Regional Policy	75
Chapter Four The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: Balancing on the Brink of War	99
Chapter Five The Islamic Factor through the Prism of the Nagorno Karabakh Conflict	139
Chapter Six The Policy of Non-regional actors in the South Caucasus: the Conflict Potential	161
Conclusion	209
Appendix 1 The Military and Military-technological Cooperation of Russia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia	213
Appendix 2	217
Bibliography	219
About the Authors	235