Irada BAGIROVA

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Irada Bagirova, D.Sc. (Hist.), head of the Caucasian History Department of the Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Baku, Azerbaijan).

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INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS AND THE GREAT POWER POLICY: A HISTORICAL EXCURSION BACK INTO THE 20TH CENTURY

ABSTRACT

Now that each of the South Caucasian states has survived the crisis it found itself at the beginning of the 1990s and sees its independence as permanent, regional integration has once again become a pertinent topic. Strong territorial ties in our globalizing world help to guarantee regional security, on the one hand, and are vital for a smooth entry into the global political-economic expanse, on the other. The regional nations, which have been in the spheres of influence and struggle of the Persian, Ottoman, and Russian empires from time immemorial, have their own and, to some extent, unique historical experience of state-political integration, which is what this article aims to discuss…………….

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