This book examines the underlying factors of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the South
Caucasus from 1905 to 1994, and explores the ways in which issues of ethnicity and …

This article explains why the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh escalated into full-scale ethnic
warfare in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The article uses newly available sources to test …

Nationalism and ethnic pressures contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union, but they
were not the primary cause. A qualified exception to this argument is Russian elite separatist …

In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores
how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent …

Bu çalışmada Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramı'nın yeni nesil yaklaşımlarından sayılan
Konstrüktivizm ve Konstrüktivizm'in alt-bileşeni olarak kabul edilen Kopenhag Okulu'nun …

Conflict resolution, conflict management and conflict transformations are major themes in
this unique book which examines, explores and analyses the mediation attempts of the …

This article contends that North Korean familism forms part of a broader trend toward family
rule in post-socialist countries. Rather than being an outcast, North Korea has become the …

This is the third part of an article tracing the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the
Soviet Union. The first part covered the period from 1938 to 1954, when the Church was led …

This article focuses on the causes of ethnic civil wars, and argues that in order to develop a
better understanding of their onset and intractability, one needs to distinguish different types …

In August of 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev sent a message to His Holiness Vazken I, Catholicos
of All Armenians,“pleading” with him “to use the influence, authority, rich life experience and …