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The Caucasus Mini-Region:
Does it even exist?

Determinants of the region in general terms – what is Caucasus?
You had all the presentations, so I will focus only on one specific topic – Illustration of the
“complexity” of the complex on the example of Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
The question is whether there is – nowadays – a security complex in the Caucasus? Answer this
question yourselves throughout the lesson.
Very brief lecture, but I will send you literature.

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•“The ethnic relations in Caucasus are so complicated that the Balkans and Afghanistan become
simple and clear in comparison”.
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•The most complicated pattern in terms of different ethnic groups is in the republic of Dagestan.
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•Chechnya is in a sense simpler than most of the other conflicts in the area.
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•South Caucasus or Trans-Caucasus is defined by a complicated interplay between issues internal to
the region on the one hand (Georgia or Nagorno-Karabakh) and the issue of alignments out of the
region (foreign influence) on the other hand.
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•Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Adzharia.
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•Nagorno-Karabakh used later as an illustration of complex‘s complexity.
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Is the Caucasus a real Security Complex (be it ‘mini’, ‘sub’ or whatever else)?
•Is there a common regional identity?
•Are there patterns of cooperation?
•What is the level of influence / interference / interest of ‘third powers’?
•What about centrifugal tendencies and overall heterogeneity of the region?
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•First issue: geography (previous slide)
•Region on ethno-religious crossroads
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•Heavy foreign interest – triadic relations in multiple layers?
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… or not?
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•Solutions of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict? -> Krzysztof’s presentation.
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•Ethno-religious situation in Northern Caucasus? -> Maud’s presentation.
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•Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia? -> Vojtěch’s presentation.
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Daniel Pechanec – nice paper on NKR!

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Mgr. Jiří Němec, Department of Political Science, Security and Strategic Studies, course BSSn4457
Regional Security Complexes, © MUNI 2021.
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