South Ossetia was the main site of the August 2008 war between Georgian military forces,
local South Ossetian forces, and the Russian military. Soon thereafter, the Russian …

" Focusing on regime trajectories across the former Soviet Union, Pluralism by Default posits
that political competition in" new democracies" has often been grounded less in well …

Introduces the geographical, historical and ethno-linguistic framework of the Caucasus,
focusing on the Russian incorporation of the region, the root most conflicts; analyses …

It is now conventional wisdom that the proliferation of ethnic-based violence constitutes the
greatest threat to public order and human rights since the lifting of the Iron Curtain. The …

It he continuing spread of ethnic violence seems set to replace the spread of communism as
the central security concern in western capitals. Ethnic wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya …

The dissolution of the Soviet Union led to the establishment of several non-recognised
statelets, three of which—Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh—are located in …

The dissolution of the Soviet Union has provided scholars with tremendously rich material
for the study of comparative nation building. Not since the decolonization of Africa in the …

In addition to economic globalisation, continued attempts to form independent states offer
another challenge to the stability of the existing state system. A growing number of self …

How have the Transnistrian authorities sought to consolidate de facto statehood in the
absence of international recognition? Starting from the idea that the time factor will …

Not since the early eighteenth century, when the Moldovan prince Dimitrie Cantemir was the
toast of salon society from Berlin to St. Petersburg, has the existence of a Moldovan state …