South Caucasus, Russia and The EU: forging an efficient over-arching cooperative regional security sceme (original) (raw)
The end of 20-th century was marked by an increase in the number of ethnopolitical conflicts throught the world. The redrawing of the political map of the world in the last century, following the results of the world wars, the elimination of colonial system and the collapse of empires, has affected the growth of ethnic confrontations in modern society. In view of the fact that any conflict inside the state is always detrimental to social-economic and political development of the country, and the world is full of polyethnic states, the birth of new interethnic contradictions, can affect the stability and security of the entire world community. In this regard, particular importance in the policy of each state, is the deep study of the characteristics of ethnic clashes, for the subsequent development of mechanisms for their forecasting, regulation and prevention. In this Thesis I will try ty examin the Conflicts in South Caucasus: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Naghorno-Karabakh
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