Post Soviet Secessionism

Author : Daria Minakov, Mikhail Sasse, Gwendolyn Minakov, Mikhail Isachenko
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
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Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838215389

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Post-Soviet Secessionism by Daria Minakov, Mikhail Sasse, Gwendolyn Minakov, Mikhail Isachenko Pdf

The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities comprise networks with state-like elements. Since the early 1990s, the four pseudo-states have been continously dependent on their sponsor countries (Russia, Armenia), and contesting the territorial integrity of their parental nation-states Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova. In 2014, the outburst of Russia-backed separatism in Eastern Ukraine led to the creation of two more para-states, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), whose leaders used the experience of older de facto states. In 2020, this growing network of de facto states counted an overall population of more than 4 million people. The essays collected in this volume address such questions as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow? Is there anything specific about the political ecology of Eastern Europe that provides secessionism with the possibility to launch state-making processes in spite of international sanctions and counteractions of their parental states? How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe? What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental states? The contributors are Jan Claas Behrends, Petra Colmorgen, Bruno Coppieters, Nataliia Kasianenko, Alice Lackner, Mikhail Minakov, and Gwendolyn Sasse.

Author : Mychajlo Anatolijovyč Minakov,Bruno Coppieters,Jan Claas Behrends,Petra Colmorgen,Nataliia Kasianenko,Alice Lackner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 3838275381

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Post-Soviet Secessionism by Mychajlo Anatolijovyč Minakov,Bruno Coppieters,Jan Claas Behrends,Petra Colmorgen,Nataliia Kasianenko,Alice Lackner Pdf

Author : Mikhail A. Alexseev
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : 0333765281

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Center-periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia by Mikhail A. Alexseev Pdf

Why did the Soviet Union break up, whereas the Russian Federation has so far held together in the face of ostensibly similar secession crises? To what extent is regional separatism a product of economic incentives or local ethnic identity? Few areas of the world display a greater complexity of ethnic relations than the post Soviet empire, and there are few with greater long term strategic significance. Drawing on political science, sociology, and anthropology, this study asks why political elites in some regions in post-Soviet Russia have shown more of a proclivity for separatism from Moscow than others.

Author : Anna Batta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000485578

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The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics by Anna Batta Pdf

This book explores the differing treatment of Russian minorities in the non-Russian republics which seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Providing detailed case studies, it explains why intervention by Russia occurred in the case of Ukraine, despite Ukraine’s benevolent and inclusive treatment of the large Russian minority, whereas in other republics with less benevolent approaches to minorities intervention did not occur, for example Kazakhstan, where discrimination against the Russian minority increased over time, and Latvia, where the country on its accession to the European Union was deemed to have good minority rights protection, despite a record of discrimination against the Russian minority. Throughout the book emphasises the importance of the perceptions of the republic government regarding the interaction between the minority’s kin-state and the minority, the role that minorities played within the nation-building process and after secession, and the dual threat coming from both the domestic and international spheres.

Author : Johannes Socher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Secession
ISBN : 0191919810

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Russia and the Right to Self-determination in the Post-Soviet Space by Johannes Socher Pdf

As a concept of international law, the right to self-determination is widely renowned for its lack of clarity. Broadly speaking, one can differentiate between a liberal and a nationalist tradition. In modern international law, the balance between these two opposing traditions is sought in an attempt to contain or 'domesticate' the nationalist conception by limiting it to 'abnormal' situations, that is to colonialism in the sense of 'alien subjugation, domination and exploitation'. Essentially, this distinction between 'normal' and 'abnormal' situations has since, the distinction was made, been the heart of the matter in the legal discourse on the right to self-determination, with the important qualification regarding the need to preserve existing borders. This book situates Russia's approach to the right to self-determination in that discourse by way of a regional comparison vis-a-vis a 'Western' or European perspective, and a temporal comparison with the former Soviet doctrine of international law. Against the background of the Soviet Union's role in the evolution of the right to self-determination, the bulk of the book analyses Russia's relevant state practice in the post-Soviet space through the prisms of sovereignty, secession, and annexation, illustrated by a total of seven case studies on the conflicts over Abkhazia, Chechnya, Crimea, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Tatarstan, and Transnistria. Complemented by a review of the Russian scholarship on the right to self-determination, it is suggested that Russia's approach may be best understood not only in terms of power politics disguised as legal rhetoric, but can be seen as evidence of traits of a regional (re-)fragmentation of international law.

Author : Galina Vasilevna Starovotova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : IND:30000050449705

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Sovereignty After Empire by Galina Vasilevna Starovotova Pdf

Author : Ana Maria Albulescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Abkhazia (Georgia)
ISBN : 1032048581

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Incomplete Secession After Unresolved Conflicts by Ana Maria Albulescu Pdf

This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states. The work explores the interplay between violence and power by examining the micro-dynamics inherent in the process of escalation between separatists and central governments. These dynamics affect not only the security interactions between these entities, but also the character of political and governance relations that are built in the aftermath of secessionist war. Th book provides comprehensive analyses of the evolution of post-conflict relations between the Republic of Moldova and Transnistria and between Georgia and South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Beyond these empirical and conceptual examples, the book contributes to a key debate in International Relations that addresses the relationship between democratization, nationalism and violence, and its applicability to the study of escalation in the post-Soviet space. This book will be of much interest to students of secession, statehood, conflict studies, democratisation, post-Soviet politics and International Relations in general.

Author : Johannes Socher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192651723

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space by Johannes Socher Pdf

The right to self-determination is renowned for its lack of clear interpretation. Broadly speaking, one can differentiate between a 'classic' and a 'romantic' tradition. In modern international law, the balance between these two opposing traditions is sought in an attempt to contain or 'domesticate' the romantic version by limiting it to 'abnormal' situations, that is cases of 'alien subjugation, domination and exploitation'. This book situates Russia's engagement with the right to self-determination in this debate. It shows that Russia follows a distinct approach to self-determination that diverges significantly from the consensus view in international state practice and scholarship, partly due to a lasting legacy of the former Soviet doctrine of international law. Against the background of the Soviet Union's role in the evolution of the right to self-determination, the bulk of the study analyses Russia's relevant state practice in the post-Soviet space through the prisms of sovereignty, secession, and annexation. Drawing on analysis of all seven major secessionist conflicts in the former Soviet space and a detailed study of Russian sources and scholarship, it traces how Russian engagement with self-determination has changed over the past three decades. Ultimately, the book argues that Russia's approach to the right of peoples to self-determination should not only be understood in terms of power politics disguised as legal rhetoric but in terms of a continuously assumed regional hegemony and exceptionalism, based on balance-of-power considerations.

Author : Ana Maria Albulescu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000472882

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Incomplete Secession after Unresolved Conflicts by Ana Maria Albulescu Pdf

This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states. The work explores the interplay between violence and power by examining the micro-dynamics inherent in the process of escalation between separatists and central governments. These dynamics affect not only the security interactions between these entities, but also the character of political and governance relations that are built in the aftermath of secessionist war. The book provides comprehensive analyses of the evolution of post-conflict relations between the Republic of Moldova and Transnistria and between Georgia and South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Beyond these empirical and conceptual examples, the book contributes to a key debate in International Relations that addresses the relationship between democratisation, nationalism and violence, and its applicability to the study of escalation in the post-Soviet space. This book will be of much interest to students of secession, statehood, conflict studies, democratisation, post-Soviet politics and International Relations in general. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Jesse Driscoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107063358

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Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States by Jesse Driscoll Pdf

This book presents an account of war settlement in Georgia and Tajikistan as local actors maneuvered in the shadow of a Russian-led military intervention. Combining ethnography and game theory and quantitative and qualitative methods, this book presents a revisionist account of the post-Soviet wars and their settlement.

Author : Bridget Coggins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107047358

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Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century by Bridget Coggins Pdf

From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. The existing scholarly wisdom provides one explanation for success, based on authority and control within the nascent states. With the aid of an expansive new dataset and detailed case studies, this book provides an alternative account. It argues that the strongest members of the international community have a decisive influence over whether today's secessionists become countries tomorrow and that, most often, their support is conditioned on parochial political considerations.

Author : Gail Lapidus,Victor Zaslavsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521417066

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From Union to Commonwealth by Gail Lapidus,Victor Zaslavsky Pdf

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of fifteen independent states on its former territory is one of the most momentous developments of the twentieth century. In From Union to Commonwealth, five leading international scholars--Leokadia Drobizheva and Galina Starovoiteva from Russia, and Gail Lapidus, Ronald Suny and Victor Zaslavsky from North America--team up to examine the forces that lay behind the rise of national movements which challenged, then destroyed, the stability and territorial integrity of the former Soviet state. Writing from their different disciplinary perspectives--from political science, modern history and from sociology--these authors offer unique insights into the links between political structure and nationalism, finding that Soviet policies designed to eliminate national distinctiveness frequently had the unintended result of creating powerful new national identities. With the pursuit of perestroika and glasnost, such identities became potent political forces impelling the Soviet leadership to grapple with the growing tension between demands for regional sovereignity and the preservation of central economic and political control. The authors show how, in the course of this struggle, the international system often played a critical role. Non-Russian national movements sought to expand their ties to Europe or Asia even as they pursued independence from Moscow. In the end it was the transformation of Russian national consciousness, and the emergence of a Russian state which disassociated itself from the legacy of empire, which played a decisive role in the collapse of the center. The progressive weakening of central institutions and the emergence of increasingly assertive sovereign states was accelerated by the failed coup of August 1991. Presenting a broad and timely analysis of the national dimension of politics after perestroika, this book is essential reading for all thsoe seeking to understand the complexities underlying the demise of the Soviet state, as well as the emergence of new states actively engaged in defining their national identities at home and abroad.

Author : Don Harrison Doyle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820330082

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Secession as an International Phenomenon by Don Harrison Doyle Pdf

About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession. With the approach of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, this collection of essays allows us to view one of the bloodiest conflicts over secession in modern history within a broader international context. The contributors to this volume consider a wide range of topics related to secession, separatism, and the nationalist passions that inflame such conflicts. The first section of the book examines ethical and moral dimensions of secession, while subsequent sections look at the American Civil War, conflicts in the Gulf of Mexico, European separatism, and conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The contributors to this book have no common position advocating or opposing secession in principle or in any particular case. All understand it, however, as a common feature of the modern world and as a historic phenomenon of international scope. Some contributors propose that “political divorce,” as secession has come to be called, ought to be subject to rational arbitration and ethical norms, instead of being decided by force. Along with these hopes for the future, Secession as an International Phenomenon offers a somber reminder of the cost the United States paid when reason failed and war was left to resolve the issue.

Author : Julie Makarychev, Andrey Umland, Andreas Fedor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783838214665

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Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society by Julie Makarychev, Andrey Umland, Andreas Fedor Pdf

Special Sections: Russian Foreign Policy Towards the “Near Abroad” and Russia's Annexiation of Crimea II This special section deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today is paradoxically following an aggressive “realist” agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote “soft-power” and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.

Author : Metta Spencer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0847685853

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Separatism by Metta Spencer Pdf

This book offers a comparative view of nine historic separatist movements, some of which have achieved the break-up of an empire or a state, and others that to date have not. The authors analyze the long term effects of secession: after partition, ethnic strife typically continues for generations; minorities decline in status; and democracy and human rights are derogated.