Kanan ALLAKHVERDIEV
Kanan Allakhverdiev, Associate Professor, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Baku, Azerbaijan).
GLOBALIZATION AND ETHNIC POLICY IN THE CAUCASUS: BETWEEN THE BEETLE AND THE BLOCK
ABSTRACT
This article analyzes two key aspects of the ethnopolitical processes underway in the Caucasus in the context of globalization: how globalization affects the ethnic processes proper, and how it is reflected in the forms of their political institutionalization. The author looks into two opposing global trends that have gained momentum in the 21st century: ethnic consolidation and ethnopolitical mobilization, on the one hand, and the integration of ethnic groups and quest for new forms of global community, on the other.
Introduction
In the late 1980s, ethnopolitical problems came to the fore all over the world, capturing the minds of the academic and journalist communities and the imagination of ordinary people who authored books, articles, and essays on……………….