Borderland
Conflict and Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus

Osteuropa 7-10/2015
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2015 [= Osteuropa 7-10/2015]
672 pages, 175 figures, 21 Farbkarten
Price: 32,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1708-5

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Editorial
• Jörg Stadelbauer
  Natural Region Caucasus
  Diversity, Contrasts, Risks
• Tsypylma Darieva, Florian Mühlfried
  The Caucasus as Contact Zone
  Languages, Religions, Peoples, and Cultures
• Sofie Bedford, Emil Souleimanov
  Islam in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
  On Sunnis, Shiites, Sufis, and Salafis
• Oliver Reisner
  Sacral-national
  State, Religion and Nation in Georgia
• Thomas de Waal
  Chained to One Another
  Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
• Jan Plamper
  The Stalin Cult and Ethnicity
  Georgian “Koba” or Soviet “Father of Nations”?
• Aleksandr Gol’dštejn
  Remember Famagusta

• The Power of the State

• Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
  Embedded not Icebound
  Conflicts and Regimes in the Caucasus: A Review of the Literature
• Huseyn Aliyev
  Networks in the Southern Caucasus
  Forms and Functions of Informal Practices
• Petra Opitz
  Need for Renewal
  The Energy Industry in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
• Silvia Stöber
  Between Reporting and Propaganda
  Media in the Southern Caucasus
• Zaal Andronikashvili, Giorgi Maisuradze
  Philologists versus Philosophers
  Georgia’s Path to Unfree Freedom
• Christian Timm
  Georgia: State in the Market
  From Neoliberalism to Managed Capitalism
• David Losaberidze
  Centre and Periphery
  Local Self-government in Georgia
• Maria Koinova
  Unity in Diversity
  The Armenian Diaspora and Armenia
• Eva-Maria Auch, Sebastian Schmidt
  Ambivalences in Azerbaijan
  Environmental Protection and Conservation in an Authoritarian State
• Katharina Hoffmann
  Society and State
  The Local Level in Armenia and Azerbaijan
• Ansgar Gilster, Christina Huthmann
  Second World
  Health and Education in the Southern Caucasus
• Lina Verschwele
  Under the Radar
  Is the Authoritarian Party Truce in Nagorno-Karabakh Doomed?

• The Power of the Powers

• Roland Götz
  Petroleum and Natural Gas in the Southern Caucasus
  Domestic Supply, Export, Transit
• Uwe Halbach
  Russia in the Northern and in the Southern Caucasus
  “Near Abroad” and “Interior Abroad”
• Franziska Smolnik, Andrea Weiss, Yana Zabanova
  Precarious Balance
  Turkey, Georgia, and the de facto State of Abkhazia
• Gayane Novikova
  Blockade à Trois
  The Triangular Relationship Armenia–Azerbaijan–Turkey
• Emil Souleimanov, Josef Kraus
  Old and New Aspirations
  Iran’s Policy in the Southern Caucasus
• Julien Zarifian
  Conditional Engagement
  The United States in the Southern Caucasus
• Michèle Knodt, Sigita Urdze
  Distant Neighbours
  The European Union in the Southern Caucasus

• The Power of Images

• Sergej Rumjancev
  Holidays for the People
  Transnational Memory in the Southern Caucasus
• Adrian Brisku
  Far Away and Yet So Close
  Europe’s Image in Georgia: The History of an Idea
• Zaal Andronikashvili
  Brothers in Faith or Evil Empire
  Perceptions of Russia in Georgian Literature
• Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
  Russia’s Georgian Myth
  The Sovietization of the Romantic Utopia
• Sevil Huseynova
  Baku between Orient and Occident
  Islam in the Post-Soviet City
• Florian Mühlfried
  Religion, Purity, Radicalisation
  On the End of the Multi-confessional Alaverdoba Festival in Georgia
• Zaur Gasimov
  Azerbaijan: The Exported Leader
  The Cult of Personality around Heydar Aliyev
• Giorgi Gvakharia
  Between Constraints and Freedom
  Poetry and Realism in Georgian Film
• Michail Ryklin
  A Philosophy of Freedom
  Merab Mamardashvili and the Metaphysics of the Agora
• Aschot L. Manutscharjan
  The Word “Genocide” Did Not Exist Yet
  The Genocide against Armenians 100 Years Later

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