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 foreignpolicies and from memory
politics to religion.
