Monografiya posvyashchena razvitiyu geopoliticheskoy situatsii na Kavkaze v kontekste problemy ob"edineniya Severnoy i Yuzhnoy Osetii i uchastiyu v etom protsesse Rossiyskoy Federatsii.V rabote rassmatrivayutsya kak teoreticheskie osnovy geopolitiki Kavkaza, tak i prikladnye voprosy uregulirovaniya gruzino-osetinskogo konflikta cherez posrednichestvo razlichnykh stran, zainteresovannykh v reshenii dannoy problemy. Monografiya predstavlyaet interes dlya studentov, aspirantov, uchenykh, interesuyushchikhsya ukazannoy problematikoy i opredelyaet krug naibolee slozhnykh voprosov kavkazskoy geopolitiki. V rabote ispol"zuyutsya poslednie dannye periodicheskoy pechati, seti Internet, formiruyushchie predstavleniya o slozhivsheysya situatsii posle "Pyatidnevnoy voyny" na Yuzhnom Kavkaze i v regione v tselom. V monografii takzhe rassmatrivayutsya vozmozhnye blizhayshie perspektivy razresheniya situatsii na Kavkaze.