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 it moves
away from a traditional viewpoint of European Studies that considers the countries of the
region as objects of Europeanization. This second volume demonstrates this by looking into
forms of inter-regionalism in the Black Sea-South Caucasus area in fields of economic
cooperation Europeanization of energy and environmental policies discussing how the region is
addressed in the elaboration of a new German Eastern Policy. In the section on norm diffusion
the contributors assess the normative power strategy of the EU and its paradoxes in the region
its impact on civil society development in Armenia and democracy promotion in Georgia. In the
section on legal approximation issues of a global climate change regime and competition law in
Georgia as well as penitentiary governance reform in the South Caucasus according to EU
standards and policies are analyzed. All contributions also review regional or local
contestations for the topics discussed here.
