CIAO DATE: 11/2011

South Caucasus: What Prospects after Twenty Years of "Managed Instability"?

October 2011

The Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Abstract

Twenty years after the end of the Cold War and the independence of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, the “managed instability” in the South Caucasus continues to prevail in the absence of solutions to the conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan – over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh – and between Georgia and Russia – over territorial issues and political differences.

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