Summary of remarks prepared for the panel “South Caucasus Frozen Conflicts: Overview and Comparison,” Frozen Conflicts Workshop, Centre for International Relations, Queen’s University, 20 April 2007 This report is a summary synthesis of previous research (Cutler 2003) examining four factors … Continue reading →
A “Self-determination Conflict Profile” summarizing its history from the 19th century, the role of the United States, proposed solutions and an evaluation of prospects for the conflict’s settlement.
Continue reading →This commentary provides background on Javakhetia, the ethnically Armenian region in southern Georgia, in order to establish that is not the next Karabakh and not another Abkhazia, and therefore neither flashpoint nor bottleneck for oil pipelines crossing the Caucasus from the Caspian to the Black Sea. Stability in Javakhetia is likely to continue, although in the long term there is a wild card: the Meskhetian Turks, a people deported by Stalin whose has been mandated to their homeland, which lies west of Javakhetia proper and east of Ajaria.
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