Skip to main content
  • Sections
  • Search

Center for Strategic & International Studies

User menu

  • Subscribe
  • Sign In

Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Cybersecurity and Technology
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Governance
    • Intellectual Property
    • Intelligence, Surveillance, and Privacy
    • Military Technology
    • Space
    • Technology and Innovation
  • Defense and Security
    • Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
    • Defense Budget
    • Defense Industry, Acquisition, and Innovation
    • Defense Strategy and Capabilities
    • Geopolitics and International Security
    • Long-Term Futures
    • Missile Defense
    • Space
    • Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation
  • Economics
    • Asian Economics
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Trade and International Business
  • Energy and Sustainability
    • Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Impacts
    • Energy and Geopolitics
    • Energy Innovation
    • Energy Markets, Trends, and Outlooks
  • Global Health
    • Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Health and Security
    • Infectious Disease
  • Human Rights
    • Building Sustainable and Inclusive Democracy
    • Business and Human Rights
    • Responding to Egregious Human Rights Abuses
    • Civil Society
    • Transitional Justice
    • Human Security
  • International Development
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Governance and Rule of Law
    • Humanitarian Assistance
    • Human Mobility
    • Private Sector Development
    • U.S. Development Policy

Regions

  • Africa
    • North Africa
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Americas
    • Caribbean
    • North America
    • South America
  • Arctic
  • Asia
    • Afghanistan
    • Australia, New Zealand & Pacific
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Korea
    • Pakistan
    • Southeast Asia
  • Europe
    • European Union
    • NATO
    • Post-Soviet Europe
    • Turkey
  • Middle East
    • The Gulf
    • Egypt and the Levant
    • North Africa
  • Russia and Eurasia
    • The South Caucasus
    • Central Asia
    • Post-Soviet Europe
    • Russia

Sections menu

  • Programs
  • Experts
  • Events
  • Analysis
    • Blogs
    • Books
    • Commentary
    • Congressional Testimony
    • Critical Questions
    • Interactive Reports
    • Journals
    • Newsletter
    • Reports
    • Transcript
  • Podcasts
  • iDeas Lab
  • Transcripts
  • Web Projects

Main menu

  • About Us
  • Support CSIS
    • Securing Our Future
  • The Caucasus: A Changing Security Landscape by CSIS
  • Video thumbnail for The Caucasus: A Changing Security LandscapeThe Caucasus: A Changing Security Landscape
  • Video thumbnail for The Caucasus: A Changing Security LandscapeThe Caucasus: A Changing Security Landscape
Past Event
Share
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Printfriendly.com

The Caucasus: A Changing Security Landscape

Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Center for Strategic and International Studies1800 K Street, NWWashington DC, 20006

On September 13, 2012, the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program and PONARS Eurasia, GW Elliott School of International Affairs will host a conference titled "The Caucasus: A Changing Security Landscape." 

Opening Remarks by:
Andrew Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program

Panel One: Regional Security
George Khelashvili, University of Tbilisi
"Regional (In)stability in the Caucasus: Strong States. vs. Weak Regional Security Architecture"

Sergey Markedonov, CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program
"The Big Caucasus and Russia: Goals and Challenges after 2008"

Scott Radnitz, University of Washington
"The Politics of Foreign Intrigue in the Caucasus"

Anar Valiyev, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy
"Azerbaijan-Iran Relations: Quo Vadis, Baku?"

Chair: Jeff Mankoff, CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program

Panel Two: Frozen Conflicts 
Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University
"Crossing Borders, Validating Sovereignty: Russia, Georgia, and the WTO"

Sergey Minasyan, Caucasus Institute (Yerevan)
"Coercion in Action: Compellence in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"

Sufian Zhemukhov, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Institute of International Education "Recognition without Independence: Abkhazia's International Context"

Chair: Cory Welt, George Washington University

The Russia-Georgia war of August 2008 threatened to decisively alter the security context in the Caucasus. Four years later, what really has changed? In this conference, panelists assess the changing relations of the three states of the Caucasus -- Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan -- with each other and major neighbors, Russia and Iran. They also explore innovative prospects for resolution in the continued conflicts over Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the possibility of renewed hostilities over Nagorno-Karabakh. This conference is based on a set of new PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos, which will be available at the event and online at www.ponarseurasia.org. 

PONARS Eurasia is an international network of academics that advances new policy approaches to research and security in Russia and Eurasia. PONARS Eurasia is based at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. The program is generously supported by the International Program of Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

 

This event has reached capacity, no RSVP available.

CSIS Experts
  • Twitter
Jeffrey Mankoff
Senior Associate (Non-Resident), Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program
Downloads
Summary Panel 1
Summary Panel 2
Contact
Contact Aika Zikibayeva
Media Queries
Contact H. Andrew Schwartz
Chief Communications Officer
Tel: 202.775.3242

Contact Paige Montfort
Media Relations Coordinator, External Relations
Tel: 202.775.3173
Related
Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, Defense and Security, Economics, Energy and Geopolitics, Energy and Sustainability, Governance and Rule of Law, International Development, Russia, Russia and Eurasia, Russia and Eurasia Program, The South Caucasus

Related Content

Report
Russia’s Westpolitik and the European Union
July 8, 2021
Commentary
A Kinder, Gentler Bear? Why Rumors of Russia’s Post-Soviet Retreat Are Premature
By Jeffrey Mankoff
December 17, 2020
On Demand Event
The War in Ukraine: Geopolitical Implications for Eurasia
April 12, 2022
Critical Questions
The Air and Missile War in Nagorno-Karabakh: Lessons for the Future of Strike and Defense
By Shaan Shaikh, Wes Rumbaugh
December 8, 2020
Commentary
Can the OSCE Help Resolve the Russia-Ukraine Crisis?
January 12, 2022
Report
The Russian and Ukrainian Spring 2021 War Scare
September 21, 2021
Report
Russia’s “Hybrid Aggression” against Georgia: The Use of Local and External Tools
September 21, 2021
Newsletter
The Evening: Covid Talks End, Joint Chiefs Quarantined, Eddie Van Halen and More
October 6, 2020
Footer menu
  • Topics
  • Regions
  • Programs
  • Experts
  • Events
  • Analysis
  • Web Projects
  • Podcasts
  • iDeas Lab
  • Transcripts
  • About Us
  • Support Us
Contact CSIS
Email CSIS
Tel: 202.887.0200
Fax: 202.775.3199
Visit CSIS Headquarters
1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Media Queries
Contact H. Andrew Schwartz
Chief Communications Officer
Tel: 202.775.3242

Contact Paige Montfort
Media Relations Coordinator, External Relations
Tel: 202.775.3173

Daily Updates

Sign up to receive The Evening, a daily brief on the news, events, and people shaping the world of international affairs.

Subscribe to CSIS Newsletters

Follow CSIS
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

All content © 2022. All rights reserved.

Legal menu
  • Credits
  • Privacy Policy
  • Reprint Permissions