Issue 6/2021: The Road to Pax Caucasia

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Only a year ago we witnessed the second Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It took at least 5,000 lives and significantly shifted the geopolitics in the South Caucuses. One year on, we reflect on this conflict and seek a chance for lasting peace for the people of Armenia, Azerbaijan and their neighbours. We gathered opinions from authors who argue that the way forward is through shared infrastructure and transportation links. We publish these essays believing that having such a debate is an important step, even if some analysts may doubt the success of Pax Caucasia.

Table of Contents

The road to Pax Caucasia

 Infrastructural connectivity of the South Caucasus. A chance for a community of interests?
Mariusz Maszkiewicz

A new corridor, a new impetus
Ali Hajizade

The South Caucasus after the Second Karabakh War
Valery Chechelashvili

Understanding the Kremlin’s logic after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Volodymyr Kopchak 

Caucasian geopolitics: Finding a path towards stability and peaceful coexistence
Vakhtang Maisaia

The Zangezur corridor. An Azerbaijani perspective
Murad Muradov 

The Armenian view on the opening of the South Caucasus after the 2020 Karabakh War
Benyamin Poghosyan 

The position of Georgia within the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Victor Kipiani

Opinion and Analysis

Vladimir the historian. Putin’s political revision of Ukrainian history
Joshua R . Kroeker 

Who benefits from the CSTO?
Tiziano Marino and Tatevik Hovhannisyan

The Central and Eastern European natural gas market 2013-19. Trends and implications
Dwight Nystrom and Geoffrey Lyon

The public diplomacy of the Associated Trio. Singing in unison?
Maria Protsiuk

Interviews

The new Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre is a Trojan horse for Putin’s hybrid war.
An interview with Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

History and Memory

Novgorod, violence and Russian political culture
Miłosz Jeromin Cordes

Blindspots in Second World War History
Kristina Smolijaninovaitė

Stories and ideas

Lithuania fumbles with 4,200 migrants, pushing human rights aside
Linas Jegelevicius

Thirty years after the fall. The legacy of the Soviet Union 

The disintegration of the Soviet Union is still going on and it is not peaceful
A conversation with Serhii Plokhy

Legacies of the real and imagined Soviet Union 1991-2021
Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova 

Russia’s young generation and the Soviet myth
Victoria Odissonova 

History never ends
Andrii Portnov

A History of Europe Fraught in Contradictions: 1989-2021
Wolfgang Eichwede

 After the Soviet Union. A melancholy of unwanted experiences
Bakar Berekashvili

Society vs the elite. Belarusian post-Soviet experiences
Anton Saifullayeu and Maxim Rust

EASTERN CAFÉ

The pain of Gongadze’s unsolved murder
Clemence Lavialle and Iwona Reichardt 

Deconstruction on the (semi)periphery
Michał Przeperski 

Happiness in small doses
Adam Reichardt