'Conflict Cases in the Caucasus. Characteristics, consequences, causes and CR (Conflict Resolution)'. Web lecture 'Caucasus Studies' 9 February 2016, Malmö University. (original) (raw)

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In the last five years, the Japanese academic world has witnessed an unprecedented and surprising number of publications on the Caucasus. With the help of its strategic importance for the contemporary political world, this momentum of Caucasian studies has been accumulated at the intersection of Middle Eastern studies and Slavic studies. As one of the outcomes of this trend, The Caucasus, its Diversity and Potentiality: Beyond Ethnic Conflicts was written with the intention of transcending the gap between these research fields. The book is based on a series of public lectures held at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in 2006 and aims to attract a general readership to Caucasian studies by describing the complexity of the region in simple language. Written as an introduction, rather than a survey of the overall picture, The Caucasus, its Diversity and Potentiality deals with seven different topics (both historical and contemporary) by seven authors who have published ...

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