ABSTRACT
This chapter explains existence of a consistent policy; it will rather shed light on the paradoxes of European Union (EU) external action in the region and highlights untidy policy processes. It draws upon endogenous arguments to explain the low political profile of the EU in the region in the 1990s. Draw upon endogenous arguments to explain the low political profile of the EU in the region in the 1990s. The chapter shows that the growing importance of the South Caucasus in EU foreign policy and the EU's enhanced political profile in the region are not associated with a specific Caucasian' policy on the part of the Union. Throughout the 1990s, the EU kept a low profile in the South Caucasus. Political developments in the region, more specifically the Rose Revolution in Georgia at the end of 2003, contributed to focusing EU attention on the South Caucasus and constituted an incentive for enhancing links with Tbilisi.
