State Building in the South Caucasus: Failures and Successes

In this paper، the process of state-building in the South Caucasus republics since their independence in 1991 until now has been studied. These countries have problems in the state-building process would be difficult to solve، also Have to solve problems left over from the communist era، Problems such as inefficient centralized economy and to fight cross-border ethnic issues، As a result، has been additional responsibility of leaders. While in the past two decades have not achieved significant success in this area and suffer from incomplete penetration territorial، Separatism، Lack of integration، not solving identity crisis and also have suffered from inadequate institutional structure. The countries of the region despite common experience in unsuitable state-building process، each of them have shown different progress in this area. While the Republic of Armenia take advantage of Opportunities such as more integrated identity and external support، have been shown better performance، Georgia with ethnic problems، war and separation 20% of its territory in the weakest performance in this area has shown. However، Azerbaijan state has experienced numerous crises and still suffers from Weak democratic institutions، but because of the Greater extent، more resources and population has a brighter future.