This work is one of the first attempts to analyze EU-South Caucasus relations. The work gives a short overview to the EU-South Caucasus relations in areas like trade, political and legal cooperation. Its main focus, however, is the explanation of the factors accounting for the increase of attention in the South Caucasus dimension of the EU in 2000-2001. This limitation also helped to shed light on EU policy towards the region in different periods: the period of 2000-2001, when the EU started to display more activism in the region, and period of 1994-2000, when the EUs economic and security...

This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the South Caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to these efforts. The South Caucasus region has long been roiled by the lingering ethno-national conflicts--Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts within Georgia--that continue to disrupt security and stability in the entire region. Throughout different phases of the conflicts the international community has shown varying degrees of activism in conflict...

This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the South Caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to these efforts. The South Caucasus region has long been roiled by the lingering ethno-national conflicts Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts within Georgia that continue to disrupt security and stability in the entire region. Throughout different phases of the conflicts the international community has shown varying degrees of activism in conflict...