CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE AUTUMN 2010 ISSUE OF
THE CAUCASIAN REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) is pleased to invite submissions for its Autumn 2010 issue (Vol. 4, No. 4) to be published in the beginning of November 2010. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2010. Submission guidelines can be viewed at Submit a Paper. 
 

CRIA is particularly interested in papers on the following topics.

Note: This is a preliminary list. Please feel free to offer alternative topics, including commentaries and book reviews, to the Editor.

Regional topics:

- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;
- Turkish-Armenian rapprochement;
- Separatist conflicts in Georgia;

- Nabucco gas pipeline;

- European Union and the South Caucasus;

- European Neighborhood Policy;
- NATO and South Caucasus;  
- Russian policy towards the South Caucasus;
- Obama Administration and the South Caucasus;
- Situation in the North Caucasus; 
- Different faces of Sufi Islam in the present-day North Caucasus;
- Israel in the Caucasus;
- Foreign policy of Azerbaijan;
- Azerbaijan's relations with the Moslem world;

- Relations between Azerbaijan and Georgia;

- Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran;

- Azerbaijani community of Iran;

- Islam in Azerbaijan; Islam in the Caucasus;
- Foreign policy of Armenia;
- Iran-Armenia relations;
- Legal status of the Caspian Sea;
- Turkey’s foreign policy;
- Turkey 's accession to the EU;
- Iran-Turkey relations;
- Iran’s nuclear program;
- New Islamic directions in Central Asia: internal and external dimensions;

- Kyrgyzstan: End of Revolution?
- Global and regional powers in Central Asia;
- Energy security in Central Asia;

- Water security in Central Asia;
- Ukraine 's foreign policy under the new president; 
- Moldova’s foreign policy;

- GUAM and its future;
- Armenian Diaspora and lobby in the US;

- US missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.

International relations and general topics:

- Theory of International Relations;
- Problems of the Modern International Law;
- International Law and current world politics;

- International Court of Justice and the separatist conflicts;
- US foreign policy;
- Russia’s foreign policy;
- China’s foreign policy;
- Foreign policy challenges for the European Union.

 

All correspondence and submissions should be e-mailed to:
 
contact[at]cria-online[dot]org

CRIA distinguishes itself as the only open-access peer-reviewed e-journal worldwide covering a variety of topics on the Caucasus. Being based in Germany the CRIA is published quarterly in English. The Review is committed to promote a better understanding of the regional affairs by providing relevant background information and analysis, as far as the Caucasus in general, and the South Caucasus in particular are concerned. CRIA also welcomes and publishes lucid, well-documented papers on other countries and regions including especially Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as well as on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints. CRIA is indexed/abstracted in Columbia International Affairs Online, Index Islamicus, ProQuest Research Library, GALE, EBSCOhost Political Science Complete, Directory of Open Access Journals, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, etc. The last issue of the Review can be viewed at http://www.cria-online.org