[Bilimsel Haber] PUBL.- War and Peace in the Caucasus, Russia's Troubled Frontier

[Gonul Pultar]

PUBL.- War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's Troubled Frontier, V. 
Cheterian

Posted by: Vicken Cheterian <vicken.cheterian at cimera.org>



Vicken Cheterian, War and Peace in the Caucasus, Russia's Troubled
Frontier, Hurst (London) £25 and Columbia University Press (New York),
$40, 2009, 395 pages.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by 
ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled 
for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many years as a 
reporter and analyst covering the region's conflicts, asks why 
nationalism emerged as a dominant political current, and why, of the 
many nationalist movements that emerged, some led to violence while
others did not. He explains also why minority rebellions were victorious 
against larger armies, in mountainous Karabakh, Abkhazia, and in the 
first war of Chechnya, and discusses the ongoing instability and armed 
resistance in the North Caucasus. He concludes his book by examining 
chapters the great power competition between Russia, the US, and the EU 
over the oil and gas resources of the Caspian region.


Table of Contents

1. The End of the Soviet Union and the Rise of Nationalism
2. History, Intellectuals and Conflict in the Caucasus
3. The Karabakh Conflict
4. Georgia, From National Liberation to State Collapse and Back
5. The Second Caucasus War
6. Sources of Conflict: Mass Trauma, Mobilization, Repression
7. Failure of Diplomacy
8. Oil, Pipelines and the New Geopolitics


Order on-line at of Hurst & Co: http://www.hurstpub.co.uk/


Or Columbia University Press:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-70064-1/war-and-peace-in-the-ca
ucasus/reviews




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