Geopolitical Risks in the Caucasus

Abstract

The article reviews the geopolitical risks in the Caucasus, as well as the scope of sources dedicated to the identification of geopolitical risks in the region. The advantages and disadvantages of geopolitical analysis and risks are described. The sources dealing with the research subject which has been actualized on a background of Crimean events 2014, is also provided. In that period, many experts talked again about the revival of geopolitical confrontation in the world and returned to the rhetoric of the Cold War. The author touched upon the issue of the lack of highly specialized analytical reports on the North Caucasus in the context of geopolitical risks and the risks of international terrorism. Therefore, special attention is paid to terrorism as one of the most important geopolitical risks in the context of the ongoing Syrian crisis, and the active role of the “Islamic state”.

Keywords

• geopolitical risks
• political risks
• Caucasus
• security
• political instability
• terrorism
• Syria