The Post-Soviet Crisis
Ali Askerov, Stefan Brooks, and Lasha Tchantouridzé
Chapter One
The Rise of Putin’s Russia and the post-Soviet Conflicts
Stefan Brooks
Chapter Two
Georgia’s Changing Strategic Situation
S. Neil MacFarlane
Chapter Three
The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: The Beginning of the Soviet End
Ali Askerov
Chapter Four
Legitimacy and Force In The Conflict Over South Ossetia
Lasha Tchantouridzé
Chapter Five
The Conflict Over Abkhazia: Mutually Exclusive National Projects
and Fragmented Statehood
David Matsaberidze
Chapter Six
Ajara: A Case in Conflict Avoidance
Zurab Tchiaberashvili
Chapter Seven
Chechnya: Interrupted Independence
Ali Askerov & Mairbek Vatchagaev
Chapter Eight
Dagestan: A Silent War
Robert Bruce Ware
Chapter Nine
Long-term Effects of Wartime Violence in Tajikistan
Malte Müller and Sam Whitt
Chapter Ten
Communal Violence in Kyrgyzstan
Joldon Kutmanaliev
Chapter Eleven
Caspian Sea Dispute
Musa Qasımlı
Chapter Twelve
Tatarstan: A Model of Peaceful Relations or Potential Spot of
Conflict
Sait Ocakli
Chapter Thirteen
Moldova’s Breakaway Transnistria: The Origins, Nature and Current
Dynamics
Kamala Valiyeva
Chapter Fourteen
Ukraine Between ‘The Russian World’ and the Black Sea
Lasha Tchantouridzé
Chapter Fifteen
Occupied Territory, Interrupted Dreams, And Shattered Hopes: A
Trilogy of Traumas of the Crimean Tatar People
Idil P. Izmirli
Ali Askerov is associate professor in the department of peace and
conflict studies at the University of North
Carolina-Greensboro.
Stefan Brooks is associate professor of Homeland Security at Rabdan
Academy.
Lasha Tchantouridzé is professor of diplomacy and international
relations at Norwich University – Military College of Vermont.
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