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the other hand, US-backed promising oil and gas projects, including the
Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, are at a high risk zone. In this regard, concerns
about US pipeline safety are unsettled. Considering that the South
Caucasus is the energy carrier transportation area, it seems interesting in
the soonest settlement of the conflict in the region.
A number of Russian analysts stress the necessity of creating a new
security system in the Caucasus that requires the removal of alien global
players who are not related to the region's fate. [1] The "global players"
mean, first of all, the United States.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which is relatively in the background
of the Georgian war, is at the forefront of the leading states, especially
Russia, at the next stage, and the OSCE Minsk Group strives to streamline
its efforts on a regular basis. In the case of Russia and Turkey, the
rapprochement is particularly striking. [6] However, in the recent years, the
focus of the Middle East again has been the decline in the activity of
leading players in the Caucasus Front.
Thus, there is no single regional security system currently in the South
Caucasus, which is directly involved in Russia's sphere of influence.
Separate countries are pushing for different military-political poles.
Despite some of the deteriorating factors, Georgia accelerates integration
with the West. The United States has stated that Georgia will soon become
a NATO member. Armenia deepens cooperation within the CSTO.
20% of Azerbaijan‘s lands occupied by Armenia, where one million
refugees and internally displaced persons live, neither strives to maintain
balance between these poles without NATO or CSTO, primarily to end the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Without a solution to this conflict, it is
impossible to speak of any security system in the South Caucasus.
In
summarizing the foregoing, it is important
to emphasize that leading
states involved in the settlement of the conflicts in the South Caucasus try
to use these conflicts to achieve their goals. Conflicts and regional security
problems in the South Caucasus are closely linked. In post-Soviet era, each
of the region's states was involved in inter-state conflicts. Not only are the
states of the region, but also global actors as the United States and the EU,
involved in the settlement of these conflicts. These geopolitical and geo-
economic rivals around the world are eager to involve
the Caucasus in their
orbit of strategic interests. The conflicts in the South Caucasus create a
serious threat to the operation of transnational energy projects, which
encourages the creation of a unified regional security system. Only soon
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settlement of the conflicts in the region can create a basis for the realization
of economic potential in the South Caucasus and geopolitical stability.
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AYDINLI FARHAD MURSAL
Phd student, Baku State University
e-mail: farhad.aydinli@gmail.com
UOT 327
THE INFLUENCE OF ABKHASIAN CONFLICT
INTO REGIONAL INTEGRATION
SUMMARY
Creation of independent states in the South Caucasus, as a result of
the change of the world political map in the 90s of the twentieth century,
has led to an increased interest in the region in transit. After the collapse
of the USSR, the deepening of political processes within the countries that
gained independence and the resumption of ethnic conflicts over the Soviet
era have become a major factor affecting the security of the region and
direct regional integration processes. Despite the end of the Cold War, the
political, geostrategic significance of the region showed that the Cold War
between Russia and the United States was not over yet because of the
conflicts in the South Caucasus.
The article analyzes the current state of Georgia's Abkhaz conflict,
foreign policy, its relations with neighboring states, dynamics of conflicts,
position of the great powers on the issue and the current situation.
Key words: Ethnic-political conflict, South Caucasus, Georgia,
Abkhazia, Russia factor, regional integration.
In the 90s of the twentieth century, the collapse of the USSR formed a
single-polar but multi-centered political system in the world political view.
The end of the Cold War between the USSR and the US did not result in
the end of political processes, ethnic conflicts, and crises in the world.
Instead, some other forces in the world began to emerge and the balance of
two hegemonic states replaced the new balance of forces in the 1990s. This
led to the collision of interests on a number of issues and the resumption of
ethnic conflicts in the region.
Ethno territorial conflicts are one of the most widespread types of
ethnic conflicts. Ethno territorial conflict means that the territorial claims
of ethnos are based on conflicts. The number of ethnic conflicts in the
former Soviet Union has exceeded 180. Ethno territorial conflicts are based