The Great Powers and the Southern Caucasus

Abstract

This final empirical chapter will examine great power penetration in the Southern Caucasus from the micro-perspective; organised according to individual great powers, its first sections will focus on the subjective factors driving the different powers’ presences in the region, looking at the motivations undergirding these involvements. A subsequent section will then investigate the dependence of the regional units’ discourses on these involvements: the attitudes of regional states towards the great powers. In combination with the macro-perspective provided in Chapter 5, I shall then be able to classify the Southern Caucasus’ patterns of GPP into one of the different categories laid out theoretically in Chapter 4: hegemony; unipolar, cooperative-multipolar or competitive-multipolar penetration; and disengagement. By then, this chapter will have provided a detailed, multifaceted, material, subjective and intersubjective map of great power presence in the South Caucasus.