The Making of the South Caucasus Region: a Geographical Approach
Keywords:
South Caucasus, Perceptual region, Russia, Turkey, IranAbstract
The region of the South Caucasus bounded by Russia to the north, Iran to the south, and Turkey to the southwest stands at a crossroads of cultural and geopolitical interactions. It is a perceptual region primarily linked by the territorial proximity of three states – Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, but lacking significant cultural-geographical similarities. Internal economic links are relatively weak. Three states of the region have different, often opposing, geopolitical codes. The region is examined from a historical-geographical point of view and in a wider geopolitical context as it represents certain interest to the closest regional superpowers and the other global geopolitical players farther away.References
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