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Vol. 1 (1), 2006 1 THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION INSTITUTE O STRATEGIC STUDIES O THE CAUCASUS THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies Vol. 1 (1) 2006 CA&CC Press® SWEDEN 2 Vol. 1 (1), 2006 OUNDEDTHE CAUCASUS AND & GLOBALIZATIONPUBLISHED BY INSTITUTE O STRATEGIC STUDIES O THE CAUCASUS Registration number: M-770 Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan Republic PUBLISHING HOUSE CA&CC Press® Sweden Registration number: 556699-5964 Registration number of the journal: No. 1218 Editorial Council Eldar Chairman of the Editorial Council (Baku) ISMAILOV Tel/fax: (994 12) 497 12 22 E-mail: [email protected] Kenan Executive Secretary (Baku) ALLAKHVERDIEV Tel: (994 12) 596 11 73 E-mail: [email protected] Azer represents the journal in Russia (Moscow) SAFAROV Tel: (7 495) 937 77 27 E-mail: [email protected] Nodar represents the journal in Georgia (Tbilisi) KHADURI Tel: (995 32) 99 59 67 E-mail: [email protected] Kamil represents the journal in Turkey (Ankara) AGHAGAN Tel: (312) 491 60 97 Å-mail: [email protected] Editorial Board Nazim Editor-in-Chief (Azerbaijan) MUZAFFARLI Tel: (994 – 12) 499 11 74 E-mail: [email protected] (IMANOV) Archil Deputy Editor-in-Chief (Georgia) GEGESHIDZE Tel: (99 – 593) 31 77 29 E-mail: [email protected] Fuad Deputy Editor-in-Chief (Azerbaijan) MURSHUDLI Tel: (994 – 50) 225 31 01 E-mail:[email protected] Vol. 1 (1), 2006 3 MembersTHE CAUCASUS of Editorial & GLOBALIZATION Board: Mustafa Professor, Ankara University (Turkey) AYDIN Irina D.Sc. (History), Leading research associate of the Institute of Ethnology and BABICH Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Douglas Professor, Chair of Political Science Department, Providence College (U.S.A.) W. BLUM Svante Professor, Research Director, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Silk Road Studies E. CORNELL Program, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS (U.S.A.) Parvin D.Sc. (History), Professor, Baku State University (Azerbaijan) DARABADI Murad D.Sc. (Political Science), Editor-in-Chief, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Journal of ESENOV Social and Political Studies (Sweden) Jannatkhan Deputy Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus, Executive EYVAZOV Secretary of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Journal of Social and Political Studies Rauf (Azerbaijan) GARAGOZOV Ph.D., Leading research associate of the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Elmir Caucasus (Azerbaijan) GULIYEV Director of the Department of Geoculture of the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Hasan Caucasus (Azerbaijan) GULIYEV D.Sc. (Philosophy), Professor, department head, Institute of Philosophy, National Stephen Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan) F. JONES Professor, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Mount Holyoke College (U.S.A.) Akira Ph.D., History of Central Asia & the Caucasus, Program Officer, The Sasakawa MATSUNAGA Peace Foundation (Japan) Vladimer Professor, Senior Fellow of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International PAPAVA Studies (Georgia) Alexander Professor, President of Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies RONDELI (Georgia) Mehdi Professor, Tehran University, Director, Center for Russian Studies (Iran) SANAIE S. Frederick Professor, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS STARR (U.S.A.) James Professor, Director of the International and Regional Studies Program, Washington V. WERTSCH University in St. Louis (U.S.A.) Stanislav D.Sc. (Economy), Senior researcher, Institute of World Economy and International ZHUKOV Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) The materials that appear in the journal do not necessarily reflect the Editorial Board and the Editors’ opinion Editorial Office: THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION © The Caucasus & Globalization, 2006 98 Alovsat Guliyev, AZ1009 © CA&CC Press®, 2006 Baku, Azerbaijan © Institute of Strategic Studies of WEB: www.ca-c.org the Caucasus, 2006 4 Vol. 1 (1), 2006 THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies Vol. 1 (1), 2006 CONTENTS To the Reader Nazim MUZAFFARLI (Imanov) 6 GEOPOLITICS NEW REGIONALISM IN THE CAUCASUS: Eldar A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH ISMAILOV 7 GEOPOLITICAL LESSONS OF THE POST-SOVIET CAUCASUS: FORWARD TO GLOBALIZATION OR Jannatkhan BACK TO CLASSICAL EURASIAN GEOPOLITICS? EYVAZOV 25 GLOBALIZATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF Murad NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY ESENOV 38 THE “QUIET” REVOLUTIONS AND Mehdi THE RULING POLITICAL STRUCTURES SANAIE 41 TURKEY AND THE CAUCASUS Mustafa AYDIN 46 GEORGIA AFTER THE ROSE REVOLUTION James V. WERTSCH 54 RUSSIA AND GEORGIA: RELATIONS Alexander ARE STILL TENSE RONDELI 67 RUSSIAN YOUTH POLICY AND ITS Douglas IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS W. BLUM 75 Vol. 1 (1), 2006 5 THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION GEO-ECONOMICS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES OF THE CENTRAL CAUCASIAN COUNTRIES: POTENTIAL, REALIZED, Vladimer AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES PAPAVA 87 ECONOMIC INTERACTION IN THE POST-SOVIET Stanislav SPACE ZHUKOV, Oksana REZNIKOVA 96 ON THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL Nazim AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS MUZAFFARLI IN THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS (IMANOV) 109 GEOCULTURE ON THE METHODOLOGY FOR IDENTIFYING AN Hasan ARCHETYPICAL CAUCASUS GULIYEV 126 LOOKING FOR A CONTEMPORARY MOUNTAIN IDEOLOGY Irina IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS BABICH 135 ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IN THE CAUCASUS: REAL Elmir THREAT AND HOW TO AVERT IT GULIYEV 145 TOLERANCE IN GEORGIA: RELIGIOUS AND Archil ETHNIC ASPECTS GEGESHIDZE 151 AZERBAIJANI DILEMMA IN THE GLOBALIZATION AGE: Rauf “ADVANCE” TO EUROPE OR “RETREAT” TO ASIA? GARAGOZOV 157 GEOHISTORY GEOPOLITICAL RIVALRY IN THE CAUCASUS Parvin IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY (a geohistorical essay) DARABADI 169 6 Vol. 1 (1), 2006 THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION Dear Readers, The Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus presents the first issue of The Caucasus & Globalization. We hope that this journal, an academic publication in the form of a digest, will give academics and specialists the opportunity to share with the broad public the results of their research studies on the political, economic, legal, and social problems of the Caucasian Region in correlation with the globalization processes. It goes without saying that there is an acute shortage of thought-provoking scientific and analyt- ical digests among the great abundance of various printed matter. And this is no accident. All of us, the peoples of the Caucasus, are busy restoring our statehood, building relations with the world around us, and forming new political, economic, and social orders, while trying to respect and pre- serve our history, culture, and independence. Our minds are occupied with the region’s hot spots— Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Chechnia, Ingushetia, and Daghestan—because we are well aware that without rapid and fair settlement of these conflicts, we cannot become full-fledged states and self-respecting nations. We have too much going on. Nevertheless, the rebirth of our states also presupposes the creation of new paradigmatic ap- proaches to and analytical views on history, politics, the economy, culture, and religion. We must come to terms with ourselves, understand who we are, define who we want to be, and identify how best to attain our goals and follow our chosen path. We must first comprehend all of this ourselves, and then present it to the rest of the world at a level it can understand and accept. The Caucasus & Globalization, which covers the most diverse areas of social studies, will be published quarterly in English and Russian. The first issue includes articles by members of the edito- rial board, which is made up of well-known academics from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the U.S. I am inviting academics, specialists, and all our readers to cooperate with us, and hope that you will not only find the articles in this first issue interesting, but also very beneficial. Nazim MUZA ARLI (IMANOV) Editor-in-Chief Vol. 1 (1), 2006 7 THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION GEOPOLITICS Eldar ISMAILOV Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus, Chairman of the Editorial Council of Central Asia and the Caucasus Journal. His experience also embraces work at the Baku Institute of Public Administration and Political Science (currently—Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Azerbaijan Republic) as head of the Department of Social Administration and Management (1991- 1997). He is also founder and president of the Transcaucasus Development Bank. He is the author of more than 50 academic works on geo-economics, macroeconomics, economic-mathematical modeling and public administration of socioeconomic processes. His most recent work Tsentral’niy Kavkaz i ekonomika Gruzii (The Central Caucasus and Economy of Georgia) (2004) was published in co-authorship with Vladimer Papava and Teymuraz Beridze. NEW REGIONALISM IN THE CAUCASUS: A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH Abstract he article looks at the particular issues choice of Azerbaijan and Georgia—two Cen- T associated with the Caucasian region tral Caucasian countries—is comprehensive- becoming an independent entity of the ly justified as the integrating nucleus for the global economy. The author justifies the need region, with the help of which the Caucasus for a new approach to structuralizing the so- can begin carrying out its geopolitical and cioeconomic space of the Caucasus, which geo-economic functions. These functions can includes the Northern, Central, and South- best be performed by integrating the Central ern Caucasus, that most