THE NEW DYNAMICS IN THE CASPIAN SEA REGION: THE RIVALRY FOR HOLD ON THE REGION

Abstract

History bears witness to the fact that countries active in international politics are continuously preparing,or are actively involved in, or are recovering from organized violence in the form of war. These are the reflections of Hans J. Morgenthau one of the leading theoristsof the Realist school of international relations.Like previous centuries, the twentieth century too, went through cycles of war and peace. Since great advances in science and technology were made in this century, weapons of mass destruction were used in these wars, particularly the Second World War, and the result was an unprecedented scale of mass killing and destruction. During the Cold War, the two main protagonists –the US and the Soviet Union never faced each other on the battlefield, for each of them possessed vast arsenals of thermonuclear weapons which could destroy them and the world many times over; therefore they played out their rivalry and hostilityby fightingproxy wars which caused much needless destructionand bloodshed. The strategic gains they supposedly made were really not worth all that bloodshed. It was thought that since the rivalries of the superpowers had ended with the Cold War, a new era of peace and stability would begin in the world. These expectations however, were not fulfilled, for violence and wars have marked the post-Cold War era and the start of the new millennium.