Abstract
Autore:
Frappi Carlo
Titolo:
"Turchia e Russia nel vicinato comune. Cooperazione e competizione nel Caucaso meridional"
The regional dimension has gained a decisive value for the
rethinking of the role and the position of Turkey and the
Russian Federation on the international contemporary
scenario. By virtue of geographical, historical and cultural
factors, Ankara and Moscow are naturally projected towards a
multi-regional dimension. Therefore, notwithstanding
different degrees of power and leverage, they are active and
influential actors in various, common regional scenarios,
stretching from the Western Balkans to the Central Asian
steppes. Among the scenarios towards which both Ankara and
Moscow project their influence, the South Caucasus, the only
shared neighbourhood between the two actors, is certainly
one of the most relevant. Looking at the evolution of Ankara
and Moscow Caucasian policies and analysing the dynamics
that favoured the alignment of the respective interests, the
paper aims to empirically highlight the gap between the
tactical convergences and the strategic differences that
emerges between the Russian great power and the Turkish
middle one. In particular, starting from an assessment of
respective goals and tools for influence, the paper will
focus on endogenous and exogenous factors hampering Turkish
regional strategy as well as on the reasons weakening
Ankara´s bargaining power vis-à-vis regional partners. Both
will finally be employed in order to shed light on the
creeping strategic competition between Turkey and Russia
and, broadly speaking, on the limitations of the
relationship between the two actors.
