Contents South Caucasus out of balance

the nation’s already fragile democracy and undermine its pro-European stance.

7 The legacy of the displaced

in the South Caucasus. From yesterday till today Jennifer S. Wistrand The South Caucasus is no stranger to the plight of displaced persons. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, refugees and internally displaced persons have numbered in the hundreds of thousands due to conflicts in NagornoKarabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

15 Is peace possible between

Armenia and Azerbaijan? Ahmad Alili Following the September 2023 campaign by Azerbaijan to re-establish its sovereignty over all Karabakh region, the question now turns to the chance for a stable peace in the South Caucasus. Yet, to answer this question, one needs to examine the many dimensions of the conflict, including internal and geopolitical, to identify the main obstacles to peace.

41 Is Abkhazia being

absorbed by Russia? Mamuka Komakhia

48 Occupiers declare war against

Georgian language in Abkhazia Tamuna Shonia According to data from 2020, about 225,000 people live in the territor y of Abkhazia. Of these, 47,000 are ethnic Georgians and most of them, about 45,000, live in the Gali region. Yet, as of today, no Georgian-language school is functioning in occupied Abkhazia.

52 Constant escape. How women

live in Khurcha, near the occupation line Manana Kveliashvili

Essays and analysis

22 Navigating the new reality.

Armenians seeking adjustment after leaving Nagorno-Karabakh Razmik Martirosyan On September 19th and 20th 2023, Azerbaijan took the Nagorno-Karabakh region by militar y means and forced the local authorities to dissolve their institutions. As a result, nearly the entire population of local Armenians fled their homes to Armenia.

29 “In these difficult times the EU

and Armenia stand shoulder to shoulder” Valentina Gevorgyan

35 Ivanishvili’s third coming. Georgian

democracy ahead of elections Nino Chanadiri As Georgia prepares for the 2024 parliamentary elections, it faces challenges that threaten

61 It is time to take the improvement

of the Ukraine-EU border seriously Lesia Dubenko Since the star t of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the country’s border with the EU, particularly that with Poland, has been in the limelight for reasons both good and bad.

68 Defence diplomacy. Ukraine

and the Global South Omar Ashour

75 Henry Kissinger’s legacy and

European geopolitics Erekle Iantbelidze With its assertiveness, Russia persistently pursues its unjustifiable goals through various means, reminiscent of Henry Kissinger’s theories on power politics.