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Recalibrating Germany’s and EU’s policy in the South Caucasus
DGAPanalyse 2
Stefan Meister | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik | 2010
Land: Suedkaukasus
The European Union’s policy towards the South Caucasus is a typical example of the inability of its member states to develop a common policy towards the post-Soviet space. Furthermore, the EU has been slow to adapt to changes in the region, such as, most notably, the rise in power and relevance of Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus region. The failure of conflict resolution in the South Caucasus is also due to diverging interests between the member states and EU’s limited engagement in its neighborhood, which makes the EU policy towards the South Caucasus at the most reactive. First, the South Caucasus fuels internal European disputes on how one should develop a policy towards Russia, and its post-Soviet neighbors. Second, an ideologically charged debate about diversification of energy supply has unfolded in the Europe-Caspian discourse, without tangible results. Third, the region exemplifies a lack of a common Western – that is US and EU strategy – towards the post-Soviet space.
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