Un Ruolo dell'EU in Caucaso?

Juggling Security, Democracy and Development in the Caucasus: What Role for the EU?, by N.Mikhelidze


The EU's premise in its engagement in the various conflicts besetting the South Caucasus has been its endorsement of the metropolitan state's territorial integrity and thus its non-recognition of the de facto independence of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Within this framework, the EU's governance initiatives in the South Caucasus have focused on the promotion of democracy. In the EU's view, conflict resolution will c ome about in the long-run if Georgia and Azerbaijan become more attractive for the separatist entities. However, instead of real democracy promotion, what we have observed from the EU's side has been the accommodation of local forms of governance.