Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe : perspectives on the construction of a region / Andrey Makarychev, Thomas Kruessmann (eds.)

The book series „European Studies in the Caucasus" offers innovative perspectives on regional studies of the Caucasus. By embracing the South Caucasus as well as Turkey and Russia as the major regional powers, it moves away from a traditional viewpoint of European Studies that considers the countries of the region as objects of Europeanization. This first volume emphasizes the movements of ideas in both directions--from Europe to the Caucasus and from the Caucasus to Europe. This double-track frame illuminates new aspects of a variety of issues requiring reciprocity and intersubjectivity, including rivalries between different integration systems in the southern and eastern fringes of Europe, various dimensions of interaction between countries of the South Caucasus and the European Union in a situation of the ongoing conflict with Russia, and different ways of using European experiences for the sake of domestic reforms in the South Caucasus. Topics range from identities to foreign policies, and from memory politics to religion

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External belief-systems in intractable conflicts / Camilla Szkola -- Identities-emotions-security and the 'inbetween': ontological security seeking and emotional othering in the South Caucasus / Susanne Szkola -- Creating de facto states: narrative frameworks and state autonomy in Abkhazia and South Ossetia / Adam Lenton -- Controversial representation of Russia in the Georgian political public sphere (the post-Soviet period) / David Matsaberidze -- Poststructuralist study of "Christian Stalin" in contemporary Georgian public discourse / Shota Kakabadze -- The print media news in the era of media convergence-the end of traditional media or future development as a global challenge? (Comparative analysis of Georgian and Lithuanian media) / Dali Osepashvili -- The Georgian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow patriarchate: "tools" of Russian soft power? / Victoria Hudson -- Similar perceptions, dissimilar practices? Russian and Western soft power in the South Caucasus / Vasif Huseynov -- Mapping the European Union bilateral development cooperation with South Caucasus countries and evaluation of its effectiveness / Givi Gigitashvili -- The juxtaposition of cultural identity and tourism development among the Svan in Upper Svaneti, Georgia / Sara Alexander and Michael Long -- European experience for development of cross-border cooperation in Georgia / Olga Dorokhina -- The EU in the South Caucasus and the Black Sea Region: between technical support and political engagement / Andrey Makarychev -- Non-Russian non-backyard remarks for the expert conference "China and Russia in the EU's Neighborhood: A Threat for Integration and Democracy?", Brussels, October 9, 2018A / Alexandra Yatsyk -- Teaching with the MOOC: opportunities and good practices of teaching European studies online / Anna Beitane -- Book interview / Ansgar Jödicke & Heidi Erbsen

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