Politoscopie și interculturalitate în Caucazul de Sud post-sovietic: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidjan
Politicoscopy and Interculturality in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan

Summary/Abstract: This essay in applied political philosophy proposes a critical analysis of multiculturalism and interculturality in the post-Soviet South Caucasus through an integrated theoretical framework of political analysis and comparative cultural studies. The central argument maintains that the limits of interculturality in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan cannot be explained exclusively by institutional or geopolitical constraints, but must also be understood as the result of a configuration of cultural values, collective cognitive representations, and political strategies aimed at securitizing difference. The comparative analysis shows that,despite significant variations at the state level, interculturality operates predominantly in the form of an administered multiculturalism, subordinated to the imperatives of stability, loyalty, and national security. European Union integration, as a factor of symbolic activation, highlights the fact that interculturality constitutes a field of imaginary–political competition in which European dialogical norms encounter structural resistance from historically consolidated hierarchical and securitarian mental images.

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