Russian Foreign Policy Dynamics in the South Caucasus. Continuity and Existing Problems
Journal: Analytical Bulletin of Armenian and Regional Studies (ABARS)
Year: 2022

History helps us to create a wider picture of the reality in which the South Caucasus exists now. That is why we are going to discover the influence of the Russian Imperial and Soviet eras on the states in the region and identify the causality of foreign policy relations between Russia and the South Caucasian states. The main question is why neither Russia nor any of the individual South Caucasian states succeeded in developing an effective strategy towards each other despite their shared border