The tip of the democratisation spear? : role and importance of the georgian armed forces in the context of democratisation and European integration / Marion Kipiani -- Russian governance of the North Caucasus : dilemmas of force and inclusion / Julie Wilhelmsen -- Overcoming the status quo in the unrecognised states of the South Caucasus : internal and external limitations / Roxana Andrei -- Transformation policies and local modernisation initiatives in the North Caucasus / V. Kolosov, O.I. Vendina, A.A. Gritsenko, M.V.Zotova, O.B. Glezer, A.A.Panin, A.B. Sebentsov, and V.N. Streletskii -- The making of groups, boundaries and cleavages in the South Caucasus: from macro to micro dynamics / Giulia Prelz Oltramonti -- Arctic labour migration, vulnerability and social change in the South Caucasus : the case of Azerbaijanis in the polar cities of Murmansk and Norilsk / Sophie Hohmann -- War veterans of Caucasian conflicts : diverging trajectories of war-related resources in "post-conflict" situations / Aude Merlin and Taline Papazian -- "Exorcism of cultural otherness" : the refugee women in post-Soviet Armenia / Evia Hovhannisyan