ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book examines some questions as they pertain to Russia's foreign policy in the South Caucasus. The study explores Russia's external affairs with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and the relevance for those affairs of the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union. The comparative case study, which was conducted as a multiple-case design, used three cases of Russian foreign policy in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia in order to test neoclassical realism and international regime theories. Considering the cases of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as crucial ones, historical explanations of Russia's common patterns of external behavior towards the South Caucasus over time in order to confirm and extend the neoclassical realism assumptions about relative material power and international exigencies can be established.
