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Title Security, democracy and development : in the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region / Ghia Nodia and Christoph H. Stefes (eds.)
Published Bern : Peter Lang, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Interdisciplinary studies on Central and Eastern Europe, 1661-1349 ; vol. 14
Interdisciplinary studies on Central and Eastern Europe ; vol. 14.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction (Ghia Nodia and Christoph H. Stefes); Part One: Elections, Revolutions and Policies; Cleavage Theory and the Electoral Geographies of Georgia (David Sichinava); Structural Causes of "Colour Revolutions": Postelectoral Mobilization and Outcomes in the South Caucasus (Anvar Rahmetov); Typical Tin-Pots: Wealth without Welfare in Azerbaijan (Marcy E. McCullaugh); Part Two: External Actors: Do They Help to Democratize?; Guarding or Retarding? US Democracy-Assistance Programmes in Post-Rose Revolution Georgia (Povilas Žielys)
Spreading Democratic Governance? NGOs in the Eastern Partnership: The Case of Georgia (Thijs Rommens)Part Three: (Re)Constructing Identities in a Changing World; Citizenship or Ethnicity? National Identity and Insecurity in Southern Caucasia (Kevork K. Oskanian); Georgian Migrants in Turkey: Reconstruction of Gender and Family Dynamics (Maroussia Ferry); Part Four: Living with Protracted Conflicts; Return or Integration? Politicizing Displacement in Georgia (Peter Kabachnik, Beth Mitchneck and Joanna Regulska)
War Economies and Protracted Conflicts: The Cases of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Giulia Prelz Oltramonti)Crossing the Border -- An Intergenerational Study of Belonging and Temporary Return among IDPs from Abkhazia (Minna Lundgren); Foreign Policy Particularities of the ""De Facto"" States in the Black Sea Region (Hanna Shelest); Part Five: The Politics and Economics of Energy; Azerbaijan's Role in the Euroasiatic Energy Chessboard: Geopolitical and Strategic Perspectives (Fabio Indeo)
The Black Sea Region as a Strategic Energy Corridor: International Dynamics of Cooperation and Competition (Sybilla Wege)Regional Cooperation and National Preferences in the Black Sea Region: A Zero-Sum Game Perpetuated by Energy Insecurity? (Oana Poiană); States over Markets? Development of a Turkish Gas Hub and its Effects on Regional Energy and Security (Slawomir Raszewski); The New Gas Era: Shaping Energy Policy in the South Caucasus Region (Nikoloz Sumbadze); Concluding Thoughts (Christoph H. Stefes and Ghia Nodia); Notes on Contributors
Summary Since the early 1990s, the southern Caucasus and its larger neighbourhood, the Black Sea region, have experienced deep and sometimes painful transformations, including bloody conflicts. They have also become an arena of geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between great powers. This has attracted growing attention from social scientists. In this volume, authors from universities in Europe, the United States and the southern Caucasus focus on several of the most topical problems of the region, particularly how nascent states and societies grapple with the results of unresolved ethno-territo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 12, 2015)
Subject National security -- Caucasus, South
National security -- Ukraine -- Black Sea Lowland
Sustainable development -- Caucasus, South
Sustainable development -- Ukraine -- Black Sea Lowland
LAW -- International.
Diplomatic relations
National security
Sustainable development
Staat
Gesellschaft
Postkommunismus
Innenpolitik
Außenpolitik
Nationalbewusstsein
SUBJECT Caucasus, South -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003707
Black Sea Lowland (Ukraine) -- Foreign relations
Subject South Caucasus
Ukraine -- Black Sea Lowland
Kaukasus
Schwarzmeer-Gebiet
Form Electronic book
Author Nodia, Gia, editor.
Stefes, Christoph H., 1969- editor.
ISBN 9783035108361
3035108366