GEOPOLITICS AND STRATEGIC ALIGNMENTS IN THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

Svante E CORNELL

Makale detayları

GEOPOLITICS AND STRATEGIC ALIGNMENTS IN THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

Yazarlar:

Svante E CORNELL

Yayıncı:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Dergi:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 1999 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/1999

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000587053

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641

Özet:

 

Georgia’s attempts to secede from the Soviet Union and ensuing refusal to participate in the CIS were  countered by relatively overt Russian support for Abkhazian and South Ossetian rebellious minorities,  who subsequently succeeded in achieving de facto independence.12 In the Armenian-Azerbaijani case,  Russia seems to have followed a policy of weakening both parties by lending them both different  degrees of support at different times. The advent to power of the nationalist president, Ebulfez  Elçibey, in Baku in the summer of 1992 led to a Russian policy very similar to the one in Georgia.  Moscow increasingly supported the Armenian side in the conflict, but kept a low profile by supporting  the Armenian state and not the Armenian insurgents in Nagorno-Karabakh directly, unlike in  Abkhazia where a direct Russian hand was clearly more tangible. Hence, Armenia appeared as the  main, sometimes even sole, intervening party in the conflict. One can, in other words, conclude that  even if forces in the Kremlin did not create the Caucasus’s conflicts, though the general feeling in  Georgia and Azerbaijan is that this was the case, strong forces were using ethnic divisions, and  perhaps even doing their best to deepen them, to prevent the real independence of the Caucasian states.  As a result of these developments, a number of agreements tie Armenia to Russia very tightly, despite  the fact that many Armenians are suspicious of Russia’s intentions and that Armenia was one of the  most intransigent republics to Soviet rule in the late 1980s. Armenia, in its present geopolitical  situation, sees no other option but to ally with Russia for its security. Faced with the spectre of the  imminent de facto dissolution of the Georgian state in October-November 1993, Georgia was  compelled to accept Russian troops on its soil and CIS membership to restore stability. Only  Azerbaijan managed to avoid the return of Russian troops on its territory, but was forced to become a  member of the CIS.

Makale detayları

GEOPOLITICS AND STRATEGIC ALIGNMENTS IN THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

Yazarlar: Svante E CORNELL

Yayıncı: T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Dergi: PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 1999 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/1999

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000587053

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2651-3315

pISSN: 1300-8641

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Svante E CORNELL

Yayıncı:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Dergi:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 1999 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/1999

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000587053

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641