Who Benefits from The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict?
Who Benefits from The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict?

Summary/Abstract: Was Napoleon right to say that Geography is the destiny? Does really destiny of countries derive from their geography and history? In terms of its location and natural resources, South Caucasus has always remained as one of the most advantageous/disadvantageous region where big powers have inserted their influence. This is the very reason of why the region sits at the heart of Eurasia. The Northern part of the Caucasus was kept in Russia with its own dynamics and problems while the South has been turned into an area where conflicts were frozen in order to heat them up when seen fit. Just about 20 years of history of independence of the states in the South Caucasus has shown the most influential actor in the region, Russia. It is the power who did assert its muscles, when some others tried to take advantage of the frozen conflicts in Georgia at the expense of Moscow. So forceful was Russia against Georgia in the 2008 war over South Ossetia and Abkhazia that no intra and extra power seems to dare to change the destiny of these break-away regions away from Russian design. To a great extent, South Ossetia and Abkhazia were sealed in favour of Russia’s strategic interests, but what about other very important problem in South Caucasia, Nagorno-Karabakh issue?

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