Small States, Russia and the West: Polarity, Constellations and Heterogeneity in the Geopolitics of the Caucasus

It delves into the contrasting foreign policies of small states in the Caucasus in response to the Russian interventions in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, which marked Russia’s ’return’ as an order-forming power, challenging the agenda of Euro-Atlantic integration.

Dr. Eduard Abrahamyan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Analysis (Armenia) and a Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at University College London (UK). He previously served as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leicester (UK) from 2021 to 2022, where he obtained his PhD in 2023, focusing on the geopolitics of small states between Russia and the West. From 2019 to 2021, Dr. Abrahamyan served as an Aide to the President of the Republic of Armenia on foreign affairs. In 2017, he was a Rumsfeld Fellow and visiting scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of the American Foreign Policy Council. He has contributed regularly to prominent think tanks and professional platforms, including the Jamestown Foundation, the American Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The National Interest, and IHS Markit, among others.