NEWTIMES

In the last century, Mass Media has become the most successful means of influencing society in all aspects. Aside from internal and domestic relations, the mass media also highly influences international and foreign affairs.

Turkey is determined to play a leading role in uniting a large area covering the Balkans, Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Ankara is therefore pursuing geo-policies with the US, EU and Russia. With Iran and nearby neighbors, however, it is implementing Davutoglu’s “Zero Problems” policies.

Uzbekistan’s suspension of its membership in the CSTO has the power to simultaneously harm Russia’s military security interests in Central Asia and announce to the US and NATO members that the coast is clear. Clearly, Uzbekistan will not hurry to build security partnerships with the West.

Frozen conflicts between countries also create permanent markets and profit sources for weapon sellers. Prolonging of frozen conflict fits into the interests of weapon manufacturers. Therefore, global powers are not too fond of resolving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict and conflicts in Georgia.

The global power shift in a globalized world changes as the most important tendency. It happens in a form of a shift from the West to the East. The USA and the rest of the Western world began to lose hegemony and the unipolar world of the 90s started to transform into the multipolar one.

From 1992 until 2010, roughly 1 million and 500000 people had left Armenia for foreign countries. Now, the older generation in Armenian villages consists only of women. The problem of migration continues to be the most painful problem of the Armenian society.

In recent years, great geopolitical powers are increasingly more interested in the Caucasus. They are all taking steps to ensure their interests in the area. Diplomatic vitality in the South Caucasus specifically draws much astonishment. These processes guarantee that Caucasian geopolitics enters a new path.

The political situation in Armenia has strained again. The final target of all games is associated with who will take the presidential office in Armenia. First of all, the ongoing processes show how much unstable the political situation in Armenia is and how much it can be affected by foreign forces.

The CIS region is considered the most important geopolitical region in Russia’s foreign policy priorities. Even within the region, Moscow determines strategies based on the importance of the individual states.

The serious changes started in the global geopolitical forces comparatively. The geopolitical relations are passing to soft power. Yet, motives, hegemony and strategies of weakening rivals still prevail in a “Cold War” period.