The Attitudes of the South Caucasus Countries Towards the Full-Scale Russian Aggression Against Ukraine

Abstract

This article not only seeks to answer the question of how the South Caucasus countries reacted to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, but also to outline how international relations in the South Caucasus are currently evolving and identify the main foreign policy objectives of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. A research hypothesis was developed for the purpose of this article, which assumes that none of the South Caucasus countries are currently viable allies of the United States and the European Union in the region anymore, because following the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine, neither Armenia, Azerbaijan nor Georgia have decided to take measures that would strike directly at Russian interests and also align with Western policy. In verifying the research hypothesis that was put forward in the Introduction to this text, it should be concluded that it is true. Looking at the actions of all the three South Caucasus countries, none of them has openly supported Ukraine on the political or military level. Nor have any of them joined the sanctions imposed on the aggressor by the West. The article mainly uses the decision-making method, the comparative method and one of the general logical methods, namely analysis.