1st Edition
Small States, Russia and the West Polarity, Constellations and Heterogeneity in the Geopolitics of the Caucasus
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Endorsements
1. Introduction
Part I: Frameworks
2. Analytical Framework: Conceptualising non-Western Small States
3. Theoretical Framework: Constellation Theory
Part II: Understanding the Geopolitics of the Caucasus
4. Russia’s build-up of its pole position amid the fluctuation of tensions with the West
5. Armenia’s Constellations and its Responses to the Strategic Shocks
6. Azerbaijan’s Constellations and its Responses to the Strategic Shocks
7. Georgia’s Constellations and its Responses to the Strategic Shocks
Part III: Explaining the Geopolitics of the Caucasus
8. The Strategic Heterogeneity of the Foreign Policy Choices
9. Conclusion
Biography
Dr. Eduard Abrahamyan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Analysis (Armenia) and a Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at University College London (UK). He previously served as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leicester (UK) from 2021 to 2022, where he obtained his PhD in 2023, focusing on the geopolitics of small states between Russia and the West. From 2019 to 2021, Dr. Abrahamyan served as an Aide to the President of the Republic of Armenia on foreign affairs. In 2017, he was a Rumsfeld Fellow and visiting scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of the American Foreign Policy Council. He has contributed regularly to prominent think tanks and professional platforms, including the Jamestown Foundation, the American Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The National Interest, and IHS Markit, among others.
