The Caucasus and the wider Black Sea region is a key area of activity of the Wider Europe programme. In 2000, the CEPS Task Force for the Caucasus produced A Stability Pact for the Caucasus, a comprehensive plan for conflict resolution and regional reconstruction and development. Since 2001, CEPS has conducted a research project on co-operation in the Black Sea region, with emphasis on its European dimension, in collaboration with the International Center for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) in Athens.
In 2003-2004, CEPS conducted a joint study with the Free University of Brussels (VUB) on Europeanisation and conflict resolution in the wider Europe, comparing the cases of Serbia-Montenegro, Georgia-Abkhazia, Moldova-Transnistria and Cyprus.

Key Publications

The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic, and Energy Perspectives (Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott - eds., Externally Published Book, 16 June 2008) Download PDF for free

Europe’s Black Sea Dimension (Terry D. Adams, Michael Emerson, Laurence David Mee and Marius Vahl, CEPS Paperback, June 2002) Buy online

A stability Pact for the Caucasus (Sergiu Celac, Michael Emerson, Nathalie Tocci, 2000)

Working Documents

No. 272. EU Policy in the South Caucasus: A View from Azerbaijan? (Elkhan Nuriyev, July 2007)

No. 267. The Armenian road to democracy - Dimensions of a tortuous process (Maria Raquel Freire & Licinia Simão, May 2007)

No. 195. Models as Instruments of Conflict Resolution in the Divided States of the European Periphery (Bruno Coppieters, Michel Huysseune and Michael Emerson, Nathalie Tocci, Marius Vahl, July 2003). Also available in Russian.

A Stability Pact for the Caucasus in Theory and Practice - a Supplementary note (September 2000). Also available in Russian
 

No. 145. A Stability Pact for the Caucasus (Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, June 2000). Also available in Turkish

and Russian

Policy Briefs

CEPS Commentaries

The EU and Black Sea Regional Cooperation:Some Challenges for BSEC(Marius Vahl, April 2005)

Paradise Lost (in Abkhazia) (Michael Emerson, June 2003)
 

What next for the Caucasus (Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, October 2001)
 

Borderland Europe (10): Climate change: New solutions for the Abkhazia impasse (Michael Emerson, July 2001)

Borderland Europe (7): Towards a breakthrough in the South Caucasus over Nagorno Karabakh? (Michael Emerson and Nathalie Tocci, May 2001)

Borderland Europe (5): A Russian view of a "Stability Pact for the Caucasus" (Dmitri Danilov, Head of Department of European Security, Institute of Europe, Moscow, March 2001)

Borderland Europe (4): Stabilisation of the Caucasus (Michael Emerson, Sergiu Celac, Romanian Ambassador at large and Özdem Sanberk, Director TESEV, March 2001)

Borderland Europe (3): Crisis on the Russian-Georgian Frontier (Michael Emerson, January 2001)

From Great Games to Strategic Cooperation (Michael Emerson, October 2000)

No. 167. Post-Mortem on Europe's First War of the 21st Century (Michael Emerson, August 2008)

No. 109. ‘Outsourcing’ de facto Statehood: Russia and the Secessionist Entities in Georgia and Moldova (Nicu Popescu, July 2006)

No. 105. A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation: Guidelines for an EU Initiative (Fabrizio Tassinari, June 2006)

No.79. The Black Sea as Epicentre of the Aftershocks of the EU’s Earthquake (Michael Emerson, July 2005)

No. 34. Caucasus Revisited (Michael Emerson, June 2003)