1. Thawing Frozen Conflicts in the Former Soviet Union.
- Author
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Rutland, Peter
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SOCIAL conflict , *SOCIAL psychology , *SOCIOLOGY ,FORMER communist countries - Abstract
15 years after the Soviet collapse the four secessionist regions (Karabakh, Abkhazia, S. Ossetia and Transdniester) remain internationally unrecognized and are a major obstacle to the political and economic development of thestates in the region. Why have these conflicts not been resolved, and why have these statelets managed to survive? This paper explores geopolitical and geoeconomic explanations for this situation, and asks what has tohappen before one can expect some substantial progress towards conflict resolution. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2007