Maia Manchkhashvili

(Tbilisi State Unviersity, Georgia)

 

 

Abstract: This thesis addresses the Turkish model of regional security of the South Caucasus. This model was announced at the summit held in Moscow on August 11, during the period of the Russo-Georgian War of August 2008. The author of this model is the Prime Minister of Turkey of that time, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to this model, a whole array of regional security issues of the South Caucasus had to be resolved using the so-called 3+2 format. This meant that Russia and Turkey would come to the negotiating table together with the three states of the region (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia). Considering the fact that Turkey has been conducting its foreign policy, including the Caucasian policy according to a new foreign political doctrine from the late 1990s and the early 2000s, launch of such initiative and announcement that it is one of the influential political actors in the South Caucasian region absolutely naturally complied with its approaches. But, on the other hand, Russia, which finds unacceptable realization of ambitions of Turkey in the South Caucasian region in any form and dreams of restoring the Empire, did not accept the initiative of Turkey. Accordingly, despite repeated attempts from the part of Turkey, the model initiated by it was not realized but even not duly reviewed in political circles. Russia did not allow to review the issues which it intended to resolve based only on its own interests, together with Turkey.

 

Key words: South Caucasus; regional security; security model; Turkish security model

JEL codes: F500