Conflict In Nagorno Karabakh Abkhazia And South Ossetia

Author : Tim Potier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004478169

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Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Tim Potier Pdf

The conflicts in the South Caucasus are now a decade old, but still appear impervious to solution. The hopes that independence raised have been dashed by an insidious cocktail of past and present regional hegemony, historical antipathy and Soviet planning. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, thus, continue to wait for their long awaited Spring. In a region where Western academic writing has focussed, during the last decade, almost exclusively on the dynamics of regional security and Great Power rivalry, even in the context of conflict, this volume provides an important and necessary legal appraisal of the possible processes and structures which may, ultimately, facilitate the finding of constitutional settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In the work, Tim Potier, an academic lawyer with much experience in the Caucasus, has written a powerful but dispassionate account which will prove not only to be of use to academics, diplomats and government officials working in the region, but also be of lasting value to the ongoing development of the international law on self-determination and autonomy. Dr Potier also considers the fate of what he prefers to term, `regionally non-dominant titular peoples'.

Author : E. Souleimanov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137280237

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Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict by E. Souleimanov Pdf

This book critically evaluates the growing body of theoretical literature on ethnic conflict and civil war, using empirical data from three major South Caucasian conflicts, evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the available methodological approaches.

Author : Heiko Krüger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642143939

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The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict by Heiko Krüger Pdf

The Caucasus region, situated on a natural isthmus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, has long been a border zone and a melting pot for a diverse range of cultures and peoples. As the intersection between Europe and Asia, and also - tween Russia and the Ottoman and Persian Empires, it has featured in the strategic plans of numerous great powers over the centuries. Given its abundance of natural resources, the ready-made raw material transport routes to Europe and its enduring position on the edge of Russia, nothing has changed to the present day. The tremendous development opportunities of the Caucasian region are being tarnished by unresolved territorial conflicts that put a continual and regionally balanced growth, sustained democratisation and long-term stability at risk. These conflicts, which all erupted with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, include the separatist movements in Abkhazia, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh and South - setia. The war over South Ossetia, which erupted between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, spelt out the explosive potential still inherent in these conflicts.

Author : Arsène Saparov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317637837

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From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus by Arsène Saparov Pdf

This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s – the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union. Seventy years later these ethnic autonomies were to become the loci of violent ethno-political conflicts which have consistently been blamed on the policies of the Bolsheviks and Stalin. According to this view, the Soviet leadership deliberately set up ethnic autonomies within the republics, thereby giving Moscow unprecedented leverage against each republic. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus questions this assumption by examining three case studies: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh are placed within the larger socio-political context of transformations taking place in this borderland region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines demographic, social and economic consequences of the Russian colonization and resulting replacement of traditional societies and identities with modern ones. Based on original Russian language sources and archival materials, the book brings together two periods that are usually studied separately – the period of the Russian Civil War 1917–20 and the early Soviet period – in order to understand the roots of the Bolshevik decision-making policy when granting autonomies. It argues that rather than being the product of blatant political manipulation this was an attempt at conflict resolution. The institution of political autonomy, however, became a powerful tool for national mobilization during the Soviet era. Contributing both to the general understanding of the early Soviet nationality policy and to our understanding of the conflicts that have engulfed the Caucasus region since the 1990s, this book will be of interest to scholars of Central Asian studies, Russian/Soviet history, ethnic conflict, security studies and International Relations.

Author : Arsène Saparov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317637844

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From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus by Arsène Saparov Pdf

This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s – the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union. Seventy years later these ethnic autonomies were to become the loci of violent ethno-political conflicts which have consistently been blamed on the policies of the Bolsheviks and Stalin. According to this view, the Soviet leadership deliberately set up ethnic autonomies within the republics, thereby giving Moscow unprecedented leverage against each republic. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus questions this assumption by examining three case studies: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh are placed within the larger socio-political context of transformations taking place in this borderland region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines demographic, social and economic consequences of the Russian colonization and resulting replacement of traditional societies and identities with modern ones. Based on original Russian language sources and archival materials, the book brings together two periods that are usually studied separately – the period of the Russian Civil War 1917–20 and the early Soviet period – in order to understand the roots of the Bolshevik decision-making policy when granting autonomies. It argues that rather than being the product of blatant political manipulation this was an attempt at conflict resolution. The institution of political autonomy, however, became a powerful tool for national mobilization during the Soviet era. Contributing both to the general understanding of the early Soviet nationality policy and to our understanding of the conflicts that have engulfed the Caucasus region since the 1990s, this book will be of interest to scholars of Central Asian studies, Russian/Soviet history, ethnic conflict, security studies and International Relations.

Author : Esmira Jafarova
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498502863

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Conflict Resolution in South Caucasus by Esmira Jafarova Pdf

This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the South Caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to these efforts. The South Caucasus region has long been roiled by the lingering ethno-national conflicts—Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts within Georgia—that continue to disrupt security and stability in the entire region. Throughout different phases of the conflicts the international community has shown varying degrees of activism in conflict resolution. For clarity purposes, it should be emphasized that the notion of “international community” will be confined to the relevant organizations that have palpable share in the process—the UN, the OSCE, and the EU—and the states that have the biggest impact on conflict resolution and the leverage on the conflicting parties—Russia, Turkey, and the United States.

Author : M. Kambeck,S. Ghazaryan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137030009

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Europe's Next Avoidable War by M. Kambeck,S. Ghazaryan Pdf

An international and interdisciplinary group of experts shed light upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict today, how it evolved and likely scenarios. Taking into account a changed political landscape, including the EU's new foreign policy instruments, they also make concrete policy proposals to make war less likely.

Author : B. George Hewitt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004248939

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Discordant Neighbours: A Reassessment of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian Conflicts by B. George Hewitt Pdf

The 2008 Georgian-Russian war focused the world’s attention on the Caucasus. South Ossetia and Abkhazia had been de facto independent since the early 1990s. However, Russia’s granting of recognition on 26 August 2008 changed regional dynamics. The Caucasus is one of the most ethnically diverse areas on earth, and the conflicts examined here present their own complexities. This book sets the issues in their historical and political contexts and discusses potential future problems. This volume is distinguished from others devoted to the same themes by the extensive use the author (a Georgian specialist) makes of Georgian sources, inaccessible to most commentators. His translated citations thus cast a unique and revealing light on the interethnic relations that have fuelled these conflicts.

Author : Ana K. Niedermaier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210606815

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Countdown to War in Georgia by Ana K. Niedermaier Pdf

Author : Jim Nichol
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781437929331

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Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia by Jim Nichol Pdf

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The U.S. recognized the independence of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia when the former Soviet Union broke up at the end of 1991. Contents of this report: (1) Recent Developments; (2) Background; (3) Overview of U.S. Policy Concerns: Operations in Iraq; After the Aug. 2008 Russia-Georgia Conflict; (4) The South Caucasus¿s External Security Context: Russian Involvement in the Region: Caspian Energy Resources; Roles of Turkey, Iran, and Others; (5) Obstacles to Peace and Independence: Nagorno Karabakh Conflict; Civil and Ethnic Conflict in Georgia; (6) U.S. Aid Overview; (7) U.S. Security Assistance; (8) U.S. Trade and Invest.: Building the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and South Caucasus Pipelines; EU Concerns; Regional Energy Cooperation with Iran.

Author : Anton Bebler
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847404286

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“Frozen conflicts” in Europe by Anton Bebler Pdf

Oft forgotten but simmering “frozen conflicts” continuously mark the political map of Europe. All located in South Eastern Europe, the Black Sea area and Transcaucasia, these conflicts run along ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic lines, separating communities. This insightful book offers a rare critical analyses of the cases of Northern Cyprus, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Kosovo, and Crimea.

Author : T. J. Petrowski
Publisher : T. J. Petrowski
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781738656905

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Nagorno-Karabakh by T. J. Petrowski Pdf

The Azerbaijani attack on the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh (formerly the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) in September 2020 shattered the illusion that this conflict is “frozen.” The forty-four-day war in 2020 was the bloodiest outbreak of violence over the separatist region since the conflict began in the late 1980s and threatened to embroil Turkey and Russia in a dangerous proxy war in the volatile South Caucasus. Despite the publication of several works on the conflict since the 1990s, many aspects of the conflict remain poorly understood or distorted in Western scholarship due to US-NATO political influence. Are the origins of the conflict found in Soviet nationalities policy and Joseph Stalin’s divide-and-rule methods? Do the Armenians in Artsakh have a right to self-determination as enshrined in treaty and customary international law? What role do Russia and Turkey have in the conflict? Did Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence establish a precedent for Artsakh and other separatist states such as Abkhazia and South Ossetia? By breaking with the dominant US-NATO political paradigm, this book strives to answer these and many other questions to provide a long overdue reassessment of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict.

Author : Bruno Coppieters
Publisher : Vub Brussels University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Caucasus
ISBN : 9054871172

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Contested Borders in the Caucasus by Bruno Coppieters Pdf

The contributions to this book cover the ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus over Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and the conflict in the North Caucasus between the Ingush and Ossetes. Alexei Zverev gives a broad overview of all these conflicts. Ghia Nodia's contribution focuses on the consequences of Georgian independence for the conflict with South Ossetia. Dmitri Trenin and Dmitri Danilov discuss Russia's interests and policies in the region. Eric Remacle and Olivier Paye deal with the mediation policies of the CSCE and the UN in the main conflict there. Firouzeh Nahavandi and Abdollah Ramezanzadeh analyse Iranian policies in the region, while Freddy De Pauw describes Turkish disillusionment with its co-operation projects with Azerbaijan. The conclusions of Bruno Coppieters examine the Caucasus as an issue of regional security.

Author : Annie Jafalian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317070726

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Reassessing Security in the South Caucasus by Annie Jafalian Pdf

Lying on the periphery of Europe, Russia, Turkey and Iran, and also being of interest to the United States, the South Caucasus is receiving growing attention among decision-makers and scholars of international relations. From a European perspective, the region is now forming a neighbouring area at the border of the Black Sea, as well as a corridor of oil and gas imports whose stability has become part of European security itself. As such, this volume reassesses security in the South Caucasus. It makes it possible to update analysis on security interests, perceptions and policies at national, regional and international levels through cross-national studies. Aimed at highlighting long-term defence and security trends in the region, contributors re-examine their relevance and enduring impact. They also identify changing dynamics under recent geopolitical and political developments in and around the region such as: the enlargements of NATO, the August 2008 Russia-Georgia war, the creation of the EU Eastern Partnership or Presidential elections. One of this volume's distinct contributions is that chapters have been written by experts from inside and around the region, i.e. Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Turkey, with other important contributions provided by authors from France and Canada having extensive experience in the area. Students and scholars of post-Soviet states, Eurasian geopolitics and European Security will find this volume enlightening.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564320588

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Bloodshed in the Caucasus by Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

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