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                                                                <journal-id>jocas</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Kafkasya Çalışmaları</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2149-9527</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2149-9101</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Murat TOPÇU</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21488/jocas.1133404</article-id>
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                                    <trans-title>Security Factor in the South Caucasian Policy of the United States in the South Caucasus under Obama and Trump</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin Obama ve Trump Dönemi Güney Kafkasya Politikasında Güvenlik Faktörü [Security Factor in the South Caucasian Policy of the United States in the South Caucasus under Obama and Trump]</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7407-194X</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Shıralıyev</surname>
                                    <given-names>Museyib</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, LİSANSÜSTÜ EĞİTİM ENSTİTÜSÜ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER (DR)</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20230531">
                    <day>05</day>
                    <month>31</month>
                    <year>2023</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>8</volume>
                                        <issue>14</issue>
                                        <fpage>1</fpage>
                                        <lpage>24</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20220620">
                        <day>06</day>
                        <month>20</month>
                        <year>2022</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20221115">
                        <day>11</day>
                        <month>15</month>
                        <year>2022</year>
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                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2015, Journal of Caucasian Studies</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Journal of Caucasian Studies</copyright-holder>
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                            <p>This article systematically reviews the security dimension of American foreign policy towards the South Caucasus during The Obama and Trump administrations. The research begins with a discussion of the key drivers of this policy, arguing that U.S. policy has been inconsistent during their presidency, reflecting ideological considerations, economic interests, and idiosyncratic leadership preferences. In addition, this amalgam shows the weakness of the strategic drivers, particularly Russia’s inability to act according to its hegemonic aspirations in the region. The United States, which has been advancing military cooperation with Georgia since 2016, followed a similar path during Trump’s presidency, and unlike the Obama era, rivalry with Russia in the South Caucasus became more aggressive. At the same time, Washington refused solely to prevent the domination of the Russian Federation as well as a new war, and in the background of the Second Karabakh War, the West and Russia focused on resolving conflicts in the region. As Russia’s power as well as its efforts to rebuild an influence in the South Caucasus increase, one can expect the strategic framework of U.S. policy to be strengthened accordingly. The region’s proximity to Iran and Turkey also plays a vital role in the security interests of the United States. In this thread, the main goals of this study are to interpret the geopolitical interests and geo-economic opportunities of the Obama and Trump administrations on the security route to the South Caucasus, as well as to examine the American foreign policy towards regional conflicts in the context of bilateral relations with the South Caucasus countries, especially Azerbaijan, and finally, to assess the effects of the Second Karabakh War on the US position in the region.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>Bu makalede, Güney Kafkasya’ya yönelik Barack Obama ve Donald Trump dönemi Amerikan dış politikasının güvenlik boyutu sistematik olarak gözden geçirilmektedir. Araştırma, bu politikanın temel itici güçlerinin tartışılmasıyla başlamakta ve ABD’nin bölgedeki politikasının tutarsız olduğunu, ideolojik mülahazaları, ekonomik çıkarları ve kendine özgü liderlik tercihlerini yansıttığını savunmaktadır. Bu amalgam, stratejik itici güçlerin zayıflığını, özellikle de Rusya’nın bölgedeki hegemonik özlemlerine göre hareket edememesini yansıtmıştır. 2016’dan beri Gürcistan ile askeri iş birliğini güçlendiren Amerika, Trump’ın başkanlığı sırasında da benzer bir yol izlemiş ve Obama döneminin aksine, Güney Kafkasya’da Rusya ile rekabet daha agresif hale gelmiştir. Aynı zamanda, Washington, yeni bir Rus egemenliğini veya yeni bir savaşı önlemeye yardımcı olmak için kendi başına hareket etmeyi reddetmiş ve İkinci Karabağ Savaşı’nın arka planında Batı ve Rusya bölgedeki çatışmaları çözmeye odaklanmıştır. Rusya’nın gücü ve Güney Kafkasya’daki etkisini yeniden inşa etme çabaları arttıkça, ABD politikasının stratejik çerçevesinin de güçlenmesi beklenebilir. Bölgenin İran ve Türkiye’ye yakınlığı da ABD’nin güvenlik çıkarlarında önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. Bu bağlamda çalışma, Obama ve Trump yönetimlerinin Güney Kafkasya’ya uzanan güvenlik rotasındaki jeopolitik çıkarları ve jeoekonomik fırsatları yorumlamayı, Güney Kafkasya ülkeleri, özellikle Azerbaycan ile ikili ilişkiler bağlamında bölgesel çatışmalara yönelik Amerikan dış politikasını incelemeyi ve İkinci Karabağ Savaşı’nın ABD’nin bölgedeki konumuna etkilerini değerlendirmeyi hedeflemektedir.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Güney Kafkasya</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  ABD</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Azerbaycan</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Gürcistan</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ermenistan</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>South Caucasus</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  The USA</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Azerbaijan</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Georgia</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Armenia</kwd>
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