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This final empirical chapter will examine great power penetration in the Southern Caucasus from the micro-perspective; organised according to individual great powers, its first sections will focus on the subjective factors driving the different powers’ presences in the region, looking at the motivations undergirding these involvements. A subsequent section will then investigate the dependence of the regional units’ discourses on these involvements: the attitudes of regional states towards the great powers. In combination with the macro-perspective provided in Chapter 5, I shall then be able to classify the Southern Caucasus’ patterns of GPP into one of the different categories laid out theoretically in Chapter 4: hegemony; unipolar, cooperative-multipolar or competitive-multipolar penetration; and disengagement. By then, this chapter will have provided a detailed, multifaceted, material, subjective and intersubjective map of great power presence in the South Caucasus.
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Oskanian, K. (2013). The Great Powers and the Southern Caucasus. In: Fear, Weakness and Power in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus. New Security Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026767_8
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