KENNAN CABLE - War and Sovereignty: Lessons from Putin’s War for the South Caucasus

to Ukraine.8 For Russia’s part, the Declaration constitutes an Yet Aliyev’s regime gravitates toward extension of its diplomatic and strategic advance authoritarianism, echoing trends in Russian rather in the Southern Caucasus—something furthered than Ukrainian governance, and Russian non- through its intervention in the Armenian-Azerbaijani intervention in the early part of the Karabakh War war o. [...] 21 On the other, Alexey much enthusiasm or attention.20 Fenenko, associate professor of the department of international security at Moscow State University, Yet Armenian leaders have tried not to pick sides, and something of Armenia’s in-betweenness can viewed Armenia as the first of the South Caucasus be seen in the contradictory ways in which Russia republics to impose sanctions on Russia, attri. [...] 78 l June 2022 Georgia the agenda at the April 2008 Bucharest Summit.27 The following summer, however, the Russian Of the South Caucasus republics, only Georgia government provoked Saakashvili into attacking voted in favor of the UN Resolution of March 2, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, giving Russia an 2022, calling for the immediate withdrawal of excuse to intervene for ostensibly peacekeeping Russi. [...] This on sanctions.26 action led to the non-renewal of the OSCE mandate in South Ossetia, ending the OSCE mission in Much of Georgia’s sympathy for Ukraine dates to Georgia altogether.29 Roughly 25,000 Georgians the Russian-Georgian War of 2008. [...] Observing events in Ukraine, Ahmad Mammadli, In addition to vulnerabilities in Karabakh, Azerbaijan of Azerbaijan’s Democracy 18 political party, called has minorities along the Russian border, and it for the three countries of the South Caucasus to has not yet returned the over 600,000 IDPs from unite against the threat of Russian imperialism, Nagorno Karabakh (victims of war in the late 1980s pu.