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This book explores in detail current developments in the three major societies of the south Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - focusing especially on religion, historical traditions, national consciousness and political culture, and on how these factors interact. It outlines how, despite close geographical interlacement, common historical memories including subjection to Russian and Soviet empires and common inherited structures, the three countries manifest deep differences; and it discusses how development in all three nations has partly or even significantly diverged from post-Soviet elites' declared commitments to democratic norms and European values. The book demonstrates that these differences, and the failures of political ambitions, stem from the countries' different religious backgrounds, political traditions and emerging economic models, which have created very different dynamics over the last two decades. The book also considers how external factors and international relations continue to have a huge impact on the three countries.

RELIGION AND POLITICS--CAUCASUS, SOUTH --- NATIONALISM--CAUCASUS, SOUTHCAUCASUS, SOUTH--FOREIGN RELATIONS