The textbook is a systematic exposition of the political processes in the countries of the Caucasus region (Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey and Iran) from 1991 to 2011 In terms of methodology all heads constructed on a single sample (each Chapter in seven sections with the same names). This is done so that the reader (student, graduate student, researcher) could compare similar processes in the economic, political and cultural life of different countries in the same historical period and independently conduct a comparative analysis of the processes taking place there. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation. For students studying the discipline "political Science". "International relations", "Regionalism", "Economy", "National history", "Conflictology", "Elitology", as well as for a wide range of readers interested in contemporary political history.
Political history, Caucasus, geopolitics, conflict, integration, political culture, elites