EU Energy Policy: The Role of the South Caucasus
In this chapter from Geopolitics and Security: A New Strategy for the South Caucasus (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Georgian Institute of Politics, and DGAP, 2018), Brenda Shaffer examines how energy has become a defining thread in EU-South Caucasus relations. She looks at the Southern Gas Corridor as the first new gas supply route to reach Europe in decades, […]
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Policy toward the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
This chapter, from The International Politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict: The Original “Frozen Conflict” and European Security (ed. Svante E. Cornell, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), examines how Tehran approaches the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Shaffer argues that Iran’s policy is driven by pragmatic security concerns rather than the religious solidarity often assumed to guide it. The chapter shows […]
Security and Crossborder Cooperation in the Black Sea region
In this chapter, “Energy and Security in the South Caucasus” (in Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus, ed. Ayça Ergun and Hamlet Isaxanli, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, IOS Press, 2013, pp. 167-175), Brenda Shaffer looks at how much energy actually shapes security outcomes in […]