The Caucasus: An Introduction is an excellent resource for journalists and diplomats, or anyone who needs to learn fast. It is compact yet comprehensive, with maps and colorful “side-bar” sections ...

View Larger Map. When the Caucasus became part of Russia, it became a natural holiday resort. At first, the region was accessible only to the aristocracy, but later vacationers from all social ...

DR. OSWALD'S colour-printed map of the Caucasus is on the scale of 1: 1,000,000, and covers the country from the Sea of Azov to the Caspian. We may regret that the heights are given in English ...

Because geography and language are so tightly linked in the Caucasus they couldn't obtain statistically significant results when one variable was controlled, but language seems to be a bigger ...

While the US, Canada, UK, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic states support NATO providing Maps for Georgia and Ukraine, opposition remains particularly strong from Germany and France.

When George Kennan set out for the Caucasus in 1870, few if any Americans had explored the highlands of Dagestan, Chechnya and the wild frontiers of imperial Russia. And with good reason.

For much of the past three decades, the South Caucasus has been internally fragmented, with former imperial hegemon Russia attempting to manipulate the region’s multiple conflicts to keep Armenia, ...