Lexington Books
Pages: 198
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4985-0285-6 • Hardback • December 2014 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
978-1-4985-0287-0 • Paperback • August 2016 • $52.99 • (£41.00)
978-1-4985-0286-3 • eBook • December 2014 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Esmira Jafarova is visiting scholar at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, and has previously held diplomatic positions at the Permanent Missions of Azerbaijan to the OSCE and to the United Nations.
Chapter 1. South Caucasus in a Perspective: Introduction, Context, and Theoretical Framework
Chapter 2. Background to the Conflicts in South Caucasus
Chapter 3. The United Nations and the OSCE in Action
Chapter 4. Regional Players: Russia and Turkey
Chapter 5. Euro-Atlantic Actors: The EU and the United States
Chapter 6. Theoretical Analysis: Contradictory Narratives, Actors’ InterestsHypotheses,
and the Role of Diaspora in Formation of Interests
Chapter 7. Conclusions
Plagued by long-standing ethnonational conflicts in the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, South Caucasus has seen little security and stability since Armenia and Georgia declared their independence in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Jafarova focuses her research on this understudied region, and on the efforts of the international community to bring about a resolution to that conflict. The volume’s seven brief chapters provide a summary of the conflict; discuss the input of the UN, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and the EU, but also Russia, Turkey, and the US in conflict resolution; and highlight some of the misconceptions that have underpinned international engagement with the region. Jafarova’s understanding of the complex local dynamics and efforts to situate the South Caucasus conflicts within existing theoretical insights make this volume a welcome addition to the literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.
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