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...

Sediments of Lake Paravani, the largest natural lake in South Caucasus, were analysed to reconstruct millennial history environment. Pollen analysis, previously undertaken on first core retrieved middle lake, revealed a vegetation for last 12 millennia. As part present study, new was taken from north-western lake. analysis performed this with same methodology as previous one. A sedimentological...

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, ...

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...