Conclusion

Remaining faithful to its history, the South Caucasus still appears as “an array of contrasting ideas” (King 2008: 7). In light of the above chapters, regional security continues to send mixed signals of both change and continuity. Some developments like September 11th, the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and the August 2008 war have definitively transformed the area since the beginning of the 2000s. But at the same time, a resistance to change has also been noted in South Caucasian countries, leaving security perceptions, interests and policies trapped in the legacy of the early 1990s.