TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melvin,Neil
AU  - Prelz Oltramonti,Giulia
ED  - SIPRI
ED  - CASCADE
TI  - Managing conflict and integration in the South Caucasus: a challenge for the European Union 
T2  - SIPRI-CASCADE policy brief
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Solna
PB  - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Stockholms internationella fredsforskningsinstitut) (SIPRI)
KW  - conflict resolution
KW  - integration
KW  - EU
KW  - South Caucasus
KW  - regional conflicts
KW  - border conflicts
KW  - disintegration
KW  - Abkhazia
KW  - Nagorno-Karabakh
KW  - South Ossetia
KW  - Russia
KW  - foreign policy
KW  - Caucasus
N1  - SIP1511; "November 2015"; Parallel extra-regional integration projects in the South Caucasus culminated in June 2014 with Georgia’s conclusion of an European Union (EU) Association Agreement and in January 2015 with Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union. Azerbaijan remains outside either project. The implementation of these projects risks an increase in regional fragmentation and a further destabilization of the South Caucasus, notably the protracted conflicts of Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia. To counter the potential negative impacts of its integrationist policies in the South Caucasus, the EU should increase political and diplomatic engagement to mitigate conflict dynamics, and seek ways to lessen the destabilizing aspects of EU–Russia competition in the South Caucasus. To this end, this policy brief offers four recommendations to strengthen the EU’s conflict-resolution and stability-building policies in the region; CASCADE is an international EU-funded research project designed to explore the  linkages between societal challenges, political developments and confl icts in the  Caucasus region. A particular focus is the relationship between security and  democratization. SIPRI is leading the work on the conflicts of the Caucasus within  CASCADE. The project runs from 2014 to 2017
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