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Understanding ethnopolitical conflict Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia wars reconsidered /

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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Main Authors: Souleimanov, Emil
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Conflict management
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994
Military history: post WW2 conflicts > c 1990 to c 2000 > 21st century > Georgia > Azerbaijan
European history > c 1990 to c 2000 > 21st century > Georgia > Azerbaijan
21st century history: from c 2000 - > c 1990 to c 2000 > 21st century > Georgia > Azerbaijan
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies > c 1990 to c 2000 > 21st century > Georgia > Azerbaijan
Warfare and Defence
Georgia Republic > History > 1991
Russia Federation > History > 1991
Abkhazia Georgia > History > Uprising, 1992-1993
Caucasus, South > Ethnic relations > Political aspects
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137280237
Summary: 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.
"Souleimanov has produced here just the kind of objective study that the region and its well-wishers need, an impartial, critical, well-researched study that weighs both the historical evidence and the contending theoretical approaches to these conflicts that is necessary for their proper analysis. Both readers coming to these issues for the first time and experts in the field will benefit from his careful analysis [...] One can only hope that this work will also inspire political actors to renew their efforts to find satisfactory political solutions to these conflicts before we have a reple
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137280220, 2013.
Carrier Form: 264 p.
ISBN: 9781137280220
9781137280237 :
1137280239 :
CLC: D751.262
Contents: Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction PART I: THE SOUTH CAUCASUS 2. Theories Of Ethnic Conflict And Civil War 3. Aims And Objectives 4. Methodological Remarks 5. Organization Of The Book 6. Note On Transliteration PART II: THEORIZING ON THE CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR AND ETHNOPOLITICAL CONFLICT 7. Explaining The Terms 8. Typology Of Conflicts 9. Conflict Vocabulary 10. Periodization In Ethnopolitical Conflict And Civil War 11. Phase A. Mobilization - Latent Conflict 12. Phase B. Radicalization - Sporadic Or Low-Scale Violence 13. Phase C. Sustained Large-Scale Violence - Civil War 14. Structural

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