ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the instruments that the EU has employed to make a 'region' in/around the South Caucasus. It provides an intricate understanding about the European Union's (EU's) instruments towards the South Caucasus. The chapter drawn as far as the proportionality of the EU's means of regionalization of the South Caucasus and the internal regionalism-oriented attempts are concerned. It investigates the EU's means of region-making in the South Caucasus and discusses the three concepts 'region', 'regionalization' and 'regionalism'. The chapter analysis that the regional cooperation schemes that has originated in the South Caucasus. Through the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENP) regionalization is practiced as an objective by the EU pursued on three levels, namely, the nano, micro, which are implicit, and the macro one, which is explicit. Fredrik Soderbaum and Bjorn Hettne state that regionalization 'denotes the process that leads to patterns of cooperation, integration, complementarity and convergence within a particular cross-national geographical space'.
