SCIENCE: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (1) -Winter 2009

is now available on-line at www.cria-online.org .

The Table of Contents of the Issue is attached below.

Deadline for submission of papers for the next issue (Spring 2009) is

March 31, 2009. Manuscript guidelines can be found at http://cria- online.org/ Submit_a_ Paper.html .
Best regards, Nasimi Aghayev
Editor-in-Chief
Caucasian Review of International Affairs
www.cria-online.org
ISSN: 1865-6773

TABLE OF CONTENTS, CRIA, vol. 3 (1), Winter 09
-Note from the Editor-in-Chief, Nasimi Aghayev(http://cria- online.org/ 6_1.html)

RESEARCH PAPERS
-"Eastern Caspian Sea Energy Geopolitics: A Litmus Test for the U.S. –Russia – China Struggle for the Geostrategic Control of Eurasia", by Thrassy Marketos (http://cria- online.org/ 6_2.html )
-"Battle of Two Logics: Appropriateness and Consequentiality in Russian Interventions in Georgia", by Robert Nalbandov (http://cria- online.org/ 6_3.html)
-"Resolving Post-Soviet "Frozen Conflicts": Is Regional IntegrationHelpful?" by Mykola Kapitonenko (http://cria- online.org/ 6_4.html)
-"Diaspora Design versus Homeland Realities: Case Study of Armenian Diaspora", by Bahar Baser & Ashok Swain (http://cria- online.org/ 6_5.html)
-"Competing Islamic Traditions in the Caucasus", by Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach (http://cria- online.org/ 6_6.html)
-"Globalization and National Competitiveness of Georgia", by George Ivaniashvili- Orbeliani (http://cria- online.org/ 6_7.html)
-"External Powers' Influence upon the Reform and Political Elites inPresent Kyrgyzstan", by Irina Morozova (http://cria- online.org/ 6_8.html)

COMMENTS
- "The End of the Frozen Cold War?", by Vladimer Papava (http://cria- online.org/ 6_9.html)
-"The Kosovo precedent - Applicable in Many Parts of the World, But Not Directly in the South Caucasus", by Dominik Tolksdorf (http://cria- online.org/ 6_10.html)
-"The Kosovo Precedent - Directly Applicable to Abkhazia and South Ossetia", by Sebastian Schaeffer(http://cria- online.org/ 6_11.html)

INTERVIEW
-"There has never been an unbiased Russian mediation in SouthCaucasian conflicts", Interview with Dr. Martin Malek, National Defense Academy, Austria (http://cria- online.org/ 6_14.html)

BOOK REVIEWS
(http://cria-online.org/Book_Reviews.html)

The CRIA is a Germany-registered quarterly peer-reviewed free, non-profit and online academic journal. The Review is committed to promote a better understanding of the regional affairs by providing relevant background information and analysis, as far as the Caucasus in general, and the South Caucasus in particular are concerned. The CRIA also welcomes lucid, well-documented papers on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints.