| AA |
Association Agreement |
| ABL |
Administrative Border Line |
| BRI |
Belt and Road Initiative |
| BRICS |
BRICS is an acronym for five leading emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa |
| CBMs |
Confidence Building Measures |
| CEPA |
Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement |
| CSDP |
Common Security and Defence Policy |
| CSTO |
Collective Security Treaty Organization |
| DCFTA |
Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement |
| EaP |
Eastern Partnership |
| EBRD |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| EC |
European Commission |
| ENP |
European Neighbourhood Policy |
| EPC |
European Political Community |
| EU |
European Union |
| EUMA |
EU Mission in Armenia |
| EUMCAP |
EU Monitoring Capacity in Armenia |
| EUMM |
EU Monitoring Mission |
| EUSR |
European Special Representative |
| FSB |
Russian Federal Security Service |
| GD |
Georgian Dream (a political party in Georgia) |
| GID |
Geneva International Discussions |
| GSP |
Generalised Scheme of Preferences |
| HR/VP |
High Representative and Vice President of the EU |
| IEA |
International Energy Agency |
| ICMP |
The International Commission on Missing Persons |
| ICJ |
International Court of Justice |
| INSTC |
International North-South Transport Corridor |
| IPRM |
Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism |
| MBRL |
Multi-barrel rocket launcher system |
| MP |
Member of Parliament |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| OSCE |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| PCAs |
Partnership and Cooperation Agreements |
| SGC |
Southern Gas Corridor |
| SMEs |
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises |
| SSRs |
Socialist Soviet Republics |
| TANAP |
Trans-Anatolian Pipeline |
| UNM |
United National Movement (a political party in Georgia) |
| US |
United States |
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
In the South Caucasus, as in many parts of the world, geographical names are highly contentious. This report uses the most frequently used names that are recognized by most readers, without implying any political preference. It therefore uses ‘Stepanakert’ instead of the Azerbaijani spelling ‘Khankendi’, the Azerbaijani name of ‘Shusha’ instead of the Armenian ‘Shushi’, the term ‘Nagorno-Karabakh’ instead of the Armenian term ‘Artsakh’, the Georgian spelling ‘Sukhumi’ instead of the Russian spelling ‘Sukhum’, and it refers to the Tskhinvali region of Georgia as ‘South Ossetia’. These choices are only to promote readability and should not be interpreted as a political statement by the researchers.