Sviluppo Infrastrutturale e Politica Regionale nel Caucaso Meridionale. Azerbaigian e Georgia tra liminalità e rinnovata attorialità

This article examines the renewed strategic prominence of Azerbaijan and Georgia in the regional landscape reshaped by the Russia–Ukraine conflict and the reconfiguration of Eurasian infrastructural corridors. Drawing on the concept of liminality—understood in both geographic and ontological terms—the study explores how these two states have leveraged their “in-between” condition as a strategic asset. Through infrastructure diplomacy, they have sought to enhance their agency and reassert their sovereignty. The cases of the Port of Alat (Azerbaijan) and the Port of Anaklia (Georgia) illustrate the broader ambition of both countries to reposition themselves at the center of emerging connectivity networks and to negotiate political space among competing powers. Liminality is thus reinterpreted not as a source of vulnerability, but as an operative platform for the creative agency and for the development of new models of regional sovereignty.