Caucasian Review of International Affairs included in world’s largest scientific database

The Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA), a scientific publication, founded by Azerbaijani specialists in Germany in 2006, was recently included in database of the U..S Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), which is the largest and most influential in the world for theory and research in this area. CRIA gained the opportunity to submit their articles to huge number of researchers and professionals around the world, CRIA editor in-chief Nasimi Agayev said.

The CIAO, which is located in New York and run by the Columbia University, includes only 77 selected journals of the world, specializing in international relations, including the world-famous publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Affairs, International Security, etc. The CRIA is the only Caucasus magazine and one of two magazines from former Soviet Union and the only functioning magazine dealing with the Caucasus region.

The editorial office of the CRIA is located in Frankfurt-am-Main. Being included in the electronic journal catalogues of the respective university libraries CRIA is available to the academic communities of universities such as Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University,  George Washington University, University of California Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Toronto, McGill University, Humboldt University of Berlin, Hamburg University, University of Vienna, University of Munich, etc.

The Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) is a Germany-based, quarterly peer-reviewed free, not-for-profit and online academic journal which has been published in English since 2006. With its preeminent International Advisory Board and Editorial Board representing various academic institutions the Review is committed to promote a better understanding of regional affairs by providing relevant background information and analysis, as far as the Caucasus in general, and the South Caucasus in particular are concerned. CRIA also welcomes lucid, well-documented papers on other countries and regions including especially Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe as well as on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints. CRIA's primary goal is to produce an efficient dialogue and exchange of ideas on the Caucasus and beyond among practitioners, researchers and theorists from the region itself and abroad.

One can get familiar with the latest issue of the magazine at http://www.cria-online.org. The paper reports on an ongoing media research project that examines the coverage of the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008, in selected Russian, Georgian, and Western print media.

This new edition includes the recent intensification of the Russian efforts to strengthen its positions in Central Asia through the strengthening of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the real causes and potential impact of consolidation of Russia's regions, the possible effects of regional elections in the Kurdish problem in Turkey, and the problem of poverty reduction in Georgia. The next edition will be published in November.

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