A Quantitative Analysis of Geopolitical Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Space
Journal: International Organisations Research Journal
Year: 2018

Twenty-five years have passed since the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which led to the disruption of the regional check-and-balance system aimed at resolving national issues and political and socioeconomic contradictions. It also resulted in a number of armed conflicts, including those in the Chechen Republic, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Tajikistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and later in the South-East of Ukraine.Immediately following the collapse of the USSR, key