CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SPRING 2010 ISSUE OF THE CAUCASIAN REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) is pleased to invite submissions for its Spring 2010 issue (Vol. 4, No. 2) to be published in the beginning of May 2010. Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2010. Submission guidelines can be viewed at Submit a Paper.

Nasimi Aghayev [nasimiaghayev@yahoo.com]

CRIA is particularly interested in papers on the following topics:
Regional topics:

– Prospects of the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;
– Turkish-Armenian rapprochement;
– Relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey;

– Separatist conflicts in Georgia;

– Western energy interests in the South Caucasus and Central Asia;
– Nabucco gas pipeline;

– White Stream gas pipeline;
– European Union and the South Caucasus;
– European Union and the conflict resolution in the South Caucasus;
– Georgia and NATO;
– Russian policy towards the South Caucasus;
– New US Administration and the South Caucasus;
– Prospects of the South Caucasian regional security;
– Regional integration in the South Caucasus;
– Situation in the North Caucasus;
– Ethno-nationalism and violence in the North-Western Caucasus;
– Different faces of Sufi Islam in the present-day North Caucasus;
– Israel in the Caucasus;
– Azerbaijan’s foreign policy;
– Azerbaijan’s relations with the Moslem world;

– Relations between Azerbaijan and Georgia;

– Islam in Azerbaijan; Islam in the Caucasus;
– Foreign policy of Armenia;
– Iran-Armenia relations;
– Azerbaijani community of Iran;
– Legal status of the Caspian Sea;
– Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan legal dispute over the oil fields in the Caspian Sea;
– Turkey’s new foreign policy;
– Turkey ‘s accession to the EU;
– Iran-Turkey relations;
– Iran’s nuclear program;
– New Islamic directions in Central Asia: internal and external dimensions;
– Global and regional powers in Central Asia;
– Energy security in Central Asia;
– Ukraine ‘s foreign policy;
– Moldova’s foreign policy;

– GUAM and its future;
– Armenian Diaspora and lobby in the US;

– US missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.
International relations and general topics:

– Theory of International Relations;
– Problems of the Modern International Law;
– International Law and current world politics;

– International Court of Justice and the separatist conflicts;
– US foreign policy;
– Russia’s foreign policy;
– China’s foreign policy;
– Foreign policy challenges for the European Union.

This is a preliminary list. Please feel free to offer alternative topics, including commentaries and book reviews, to the Editor.

All correspondence and submissions should be e-mailed to:

contact[at]cria-online.org

The CRIA distinguishes itself as the only open-access peer-reviewed e-journal worldwide covering a variety of topics on the Caucasus. Being based in Germany the CRIA is published quarterly in English. 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 and publishes lucid, well-documented papers on other countries and regions including especially Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as well as on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints. The CRIA is indexed/abstracted in Columbia International Affairs Online, ProQuest Research Library, EBSCOhost Political Science Complete, Directory of Open Access Journals, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, etc. The last issue of the Review can be viewed at

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