Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict [electronic resource] : Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia Wars Reconsidered /
Souleimanov, E.author.
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.
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Transliteration""; ""1 Introduction""; ""The South Caucasus""; ""Theories of ethnic conflict and civil war""; ""Methodological remarks""; ""Organization of the book""; ""2 Theorizing on the Causes of Civil War and Ethnopolitical Conflict""; ""Explaining the terms""; ""Typology of conflicts""; ""Conflict vocabulary""; ""Periodization in ethnopolitical conflict and civil war43""; ""Phase A: Mobilization â€? latent conflict""
""Phase B: Radicalization â€? sporadic or low-scale violence""""Phase C: Sustained large-scale violence â€? civil war""; ""Conflict-onset based theories""; ""Structural accounts""; ""Level of economic development""; ""Facilitating a rebellion? Natural resources, diaspora, and geography""; ""Demographic factors: ethnic diversity, size, and proportions""; ""Regime type and regime change""; ""Social inequality accounts""; ""General shortcomings of quantitative research""; ""Conflict-escalation based theories""; ""Perceptional accounts""; ""Ancient hatreds""; ""Security dilemma""
""Symbolic (identity) politics""""Instrumentalist accounts â€? manipulative leaders""; ""Opportunity in power asymmetry: a missing causal link between ethnic riots and civil war?""; ""3 The South Caucasus: A History of Identities, an Identity of Histories""; ""Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis""; ""Azerbaijan9""; ""Relations with Persians and Persia, or Turks and Turkey, in historical perspective""; ""Relations with Russians and Russia in historical perspective""; ""Armenia and Armenians""; ""Relations with Turks and Turkey in historical perspective""
""The internal political situation in Georgia on theeve of the breakup of the U.S.S.R.""""4 Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia: The Ascent of Ethnopolitical Conflict""; ""Nagorno-Karabakh""; ""Conflict and historiography""; ""Chronology of escalation""; ""Phase A: Mobilization â€? latent conflict""; ""Phase B: Radicalization â€? sporadic violence""; ""Phase C: Armed conflict â€? civil (international) war""; ""The conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia""; ""South Ossetia""; ""Abkhazia""; ""Conflict and historiography""; ""South Ossetia: chronology of escalation""
""Phase A: Mobilization â€? latent conflict""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
International relations.
Politics and war.
Peace.
Political science.
World politics.
International Relations.
Military and Defence Studies.
Conflict Studies.
Political Science.
Political History.
Peace Studies.