Regions/Caucasus

Caucasus

Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

De Waal on the “Great Catastrophe”

The G-Word: The Armenian Massacre and the Politics  of Genocide

Event: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

- Op-Ed
Eastern Europe’s Deepest Problem Lies Within
- Thomas de Waal
- February 20, 2019
- POLITICO Europe
A major Georgian international project, Anaklia port, is being threatened by a domestic political row. Abuse of informal power is hurting Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
- Strategic Europe
Watch Georgia as a Localization Engine in Eurasia
- Tedo Japaridze, John C. Kornblum
- February 16, 2019
In both the Caucasus and the Western Balkans, infrastructure and logistics will supplant normative goals such as EU membership as pathways to peaceful cooperation.
- Article
Upgrading U.S. Support for Armenia’s Postrevolution Reforms
- Ray Salvatore Jennings
- February 14, 2019
A successful transition in Armenia will offer a model for other aspiring democracies to chart a multipolar course. There is no better time to use diplomacy and foreign aid to support it.
- Q&A
A Brief Guide to Understanding the Countries of the South Caucasus
- Thomas de Waal
- February 11, 2019
Bordered by great powers but with their own distinct cultures, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia lie at the crossroads of Asia and Europe. In his book, The Caucasus: An Introduction, Thomas de Waal explains this fascinating region.
- Op-Ed
The Strange Normality of Life in a Breakaway State
- Thomas de Waal
- January 11, 2019
- BBC News
Abkhazia, Transdniestria, and northern Cyprus exist on maps but are not full nation states. Life goes on, but it is all a little more complicated than elsewhere in the world.
- Strategic Europe
The Caucasus: No Longer Just Russia’s Neighborhood
- Thomas de Waal
- December 18, 2018
The three South Caucasian countries have found a way to manage their relationship with Russia. If their leaders do nothing stupid to alienate their own populations, they stand a good chance of navigating 2019 without a confrontation with Moscow.
- Op-Ed
In Georgia, the New President’s Big Runoff Win Masks Rising Polarization
- Paul Stronski
- December 05, 2018
- World Politics Review
Georgian society has been politically divided for years, so the heated tone of the recent presidential election was not all that surprising. Increasingly entrenched political polarization, however, would complicate the consolidation of Georgian democracy
- Report
Uncertain Ground: Engaging With Europe’s De Facto States and Breakaway Territories
- Thomas de Waal
- December 03, 2018
Abkhazia, Transdniestria, and northern Cyprus, three unrecognized statelets in Europe that arose during conflicts in the twentieth century, have endured for decades. Despite many problems, they are self-governing and stable, and they show no signs of collapsing.
- Book
The Caucasus: An Introduction, 2nd Edition
- Thomas de Waal
- December 01, 2018
- Oxford University Press
This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has in-troduced thousands of readers to a complex region.
- Op-Ed
When Georgians Go Low, Other Georgians Go Lower
- Thomas de Waal
- November 05, 2018
- Foreign Policy
A young democracy in the Caucasus has adopted a very aggressive style of campaigning.

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Carnegie Experts on
Caucasus

Alexander Baunov
Senior Fellow
Editor in Chief of Carnegie.ru
Moscow Center
Baunov is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center and editor in chief of Carnegie.ru.
James Collins
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Russia and Eurasia Program;
Diplomat in Residence
Ambassador Collins was the U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2001 and is an expert on the former Soviet Union, its successor states, and the Middle East.
Thomas de Waal
Senior Fellow
Carnegie Europe
De Waal is a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, specializing in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region.
Stefan Lehne
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe
Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Distinguished Fellow
Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years.
Andrey Movchan
Nonresident Scholar
Economic Policy Program
Moscow Center
Movchan is a nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Philip Remler
Nonresident Scholar
Philip Remler is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Gwendolyn Sasse
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Carnegie Europe
Sasse is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe. Her research focuses on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, EU enlargement, and comparative democratization.
Paul Stronski
Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program
Paul Stronski is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, where his research focuses on the relationship between Russia and neighboring countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Dmitri Trenin
Director
Moscow Center
Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
Andrew S. Weiss
James Family Chair
Vice President for Studies
Weiss is the James Family Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees research in Washington and Moscow on Russia and Eurasia.