<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper explains the difficulties that have been emerging for the Southern Caucasus regarding these countries’ relationship with and towards the EU. Through the deconstruction of the area’s particularities and specificities, and its framing in the EU’s policy to the region, this paper aims at analyzing the implications of the transition efforts and stability in the area for Europe in general, along with the different roles each of these pieces - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - play in the complex strategic Caucasian puzzle.</p></abstract>

The paper explains the difficulties that have been emerging for the Southern Caucasus regarding these countries’ relationship with and towards the EU. Through the deconstruction of the area’s particularities and specificities, and its framing in the EU’s policy to the region, this paper aims at analyzing the implications of the transition efforts and stability in the area for Europe in general, along with the different roles each of these pieces - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - play in the complex strategic Caucasian puzzle.

The EU’s neighborhood policy towards the Southern Caucasus: searching for commonality in a patchy scenario

Yerevan State University Center of European Studies

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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The paper explains the difficulties that have been emerging for the Southern Caucasus regarding these countries’ relationship with and towards the EU. Through...

The EU’s neighborhood policy towards the Southern Caucasus: searching for commonality in a patchy scenario

Published Online: Feb 27, 2014

Page range: 75 - 101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2013-0012

© 2013 Sanda-Daniela Alexeiciuc et al., published by De Gruyter Open

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