History and Politics of the South Caucasus

This series of lectures and seminars will focus on the recent history and politics of the South Caucasus and Iran. The previous has also been known in Russian sources as the Transcaucasia and includes three UN member states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) as well as three unrecognized or partially recognized states (Abkhazia, Nagorno Karabakh, and South Ossetia). With Russia in the north and Iran as a contemporary 'newsmaker' and former neighbor of the Russian Empire in the south, this region has gone through a number of fascinating transformations throughout its history, some of the modern aspects of which will be examined during the proposed course of studies.

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