The metaphor that is so often reached for to evoke the South Caucasus is the crossroads. Yet if understandings of the South Caucasus as a crossroads or contact area have long been accepted by researchers of geopolitics or anthropology, only recently has a discussion of the region’s positioning in the global economy of knowledge mainstreamed into a vivid polemic over what we know about the South Caucasus, why we know it, and who determines the answers to these questions. This talk will discuss the epistemological traditions (‘Cerberus’ serving as a metaphor for the three epistemological traditions) shaping the production of knowledge about the South Caucasus since the region regained independence in 1991. It will explore the impacts of different traditions – universalism, localism and the policy knowledge wielded by practitioners – on the constitution of the South Caucasus as an epistemically, as well as geopolitically and culturally, fractured subject.