The causes of the EU's ineffectual contribution to resolution of the Abkhazian and South Ossetian conflicts

This article contributes to the literature on the EU's conflict resolution efforts in general, and in the context of Georgia, in particular. First, it identifies a dissonance between the EU's strong interest in the resolution of the Conflicts, its firm commitment to such resolution and its long-standing, engagement with a view to promoting such resolution, and its actual, ineffectual contribution to achieving that goal. Second, it analyses various factors which contribute to this ineffectiveness.