The “crossroads” is a recurring trope in popular and academic writing on the South Caucasus. This can conjure simplistic explanatory frameworks of timeless “silk road” connectivity, or region as meeting point East West, democracy authoritarianism, Christianity Islam. However, it also evocative powerful ways that movement people, goods, ideas across have shaped its past present. In this contribu...

Özet: 1991 yılında Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyetler Birliği’nin dağılmasıyla birlikte bağımsızlığına kavuşan Kafkasya’daki ülkelerin bağımsızlığa kavuşması, bu bölgede olduğu gibi dünya ekonomilerinin, sosyal ve siyasi alanlarda değişimlerin yaşanmasına neden olmuştur. Avrupa Asya sınırında Karadeniz Hazar Denizi arasındaki Kafkasya’nın önemli bir stratejik konumda yer alması, Tüm dünyanın ilgisi...

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has regarded both Central Asia and the South Caucasus as being within its sphere of influence. It has also been constantly afraid of “losing them to the West.” The critical moment came in the fall of 1991, when U.S. and NATO military bases were established in Central Asia, American military assistance to Azerbaijan and Georgia was enhanced, ...

This study examined the combined influences of national levels of socioeconomic status (SES), social capital, and rights and freedoms on population level physical and mental health outcomes. Indicators of mental health were suicide rates, alcohol consumption, and tobacco use. Indicators of physical health included life expectancy, infant mortality rates, and prevalence of HIV. Using pathway ana...