Engaging Eurasia's separatist states
Subtitle: unresolved conflicts and de facto states
By: Dov Lynch.
Publisher: United States Institue of Peace Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Ethnic conflict -- Transcaucasia -- Case studies; Transcaucasia -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies; Transcaucasia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Dniester Moldovan Republic -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, secessionist forces carved four de facto states from parts of Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Ten years on, those states are mired in uncertainty. Beset by internal problems, fearful of a return to the violence that spawned them, and isolated and unrecognized internationally, they survive behind cease-fire lines that have temporarily frozen but not resolved their conflicts with the metropolitan powers. In this, the first in-depth comparative analysis of these self-proclaimed republics, Dov Lynch examines the logic that maintains this uneasy existence and explores ways out of their volatile predicament." "Drawing on extensive travel within Eurasia and remarkable access to leading figures in the secessionist struggles, Lynch spotlights the political, military, and economic dynamics - both internal and external - that drive the existence of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, and Nagorno-Karabakh. He also evaluates a range of options for resolving the status of the de facto states before violence returns, and proposes a coordinated approach, spearheaded by the European Union, that balances de facto and de jure independence and sovereignty."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.