喬治亞 — 亞塞拜然

摘要

Every westbound energy route out of the Caspian crosses Georgia. The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline, opened in July 2006, was the first major export route from the former Soviet Caspian to bypass both Russia and Iran, and the parallel South Caucasus gas pipeline followed within a year; the Middle Corridor trade route runs the same way. The arrangement created the region's modern economic geometry — Azerbaijani revenue, Georgian transit income, Turkish leverage, Western stake and Armenian exclusion — and it is the one major regional relationship that no party has sought to reopen. Georgia's relations with Azerbaijan are correct and its transit role uncontested, through an EU accession crisis, a Karabakh war and a change in every other alignment around it.

為何重要

It is the structural reason Georgia matters to states with no view on its politics, and the reason Armenia's exclusion from the region's economic geometry has persisted for thirty years. It is also the counter-example to a reading of the Caucasus as uniformly contested: the region's most valuable physical asset sits on a relationship nobody disputes.

相關事件

• 巴庫–提比里斯–Ceyhan管線啟用 2006年7月13日

  Energy · Economic

所依賴的系統

正式的後勤紀錄。它們載有此關係所依據、但不在此重述的走廊、節點、依賴與中斷歷史。

地點

本模組已發布的標記。此紀錄本身不增加任何地理精度。

仍然未知的事項

• Transit fees, volumes and their share of Georgian public revenue are not published by this module.
• `validFrom` is anchored to the opening of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline in July 2006. Cooperation on the route predates the opening and this module does not date its start.
• Whether a sustained deterioration in Georgia's external position would affect the arrangement is untested; nothing in the record suggests either party has raised it.