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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Abkhazia"”.
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Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus : Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia
(cont.) the USSR and finds that a focus on opportunity provides the best explanation for the presence or absence of mass mobilization. Finally, the dissertation argues that conventional state security concerns best explain the start of escalation. Union republic opponents, Azerbaijanis and …
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Territorial integrity and identity within the Republic of Georgia: a comparative case study of Ajaria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia
… democracy. Imperative to an understanding of the Abkhazian and South Ossetian 'frozen conflicts' necessitates an understanding of regional histories, domestic politics, international involvement, territorial claims and the composition of ethnic identities. Further, examination of the reasons why …
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Georgia: Frozen Conflict and the Role of Displaced Persons
… Republic of Georgia and the separatist region of Abkhazia. In particular it looks at the nature of protracted or "frozen" conflict with particular attention to the role of the displaced community in the conflict's entrenchment. Specifically, it seeks to answer the question: why do certain …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
… conflicts over the territorial integrity of Abkhazia and South Ossetia territories, Chechen war and conflicts in Nagorno Karabakh). The purpose of this thesis is to research how different interpretations of historical events related to military conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia in …
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Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
… conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia are the greatest inhibitors to enhanced security in the region. Additionally, the South Caucasus also suffers from widespread corruption and weak democratic institutions. The U.S. has a number of important interests in the region and its …
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Development perspectives of small and medium businesses in Georgia
… by the civil war and by ethnic conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. During the ethnic conflicts and civil war the business and technical infrastructure were damaged and most of them were completely destroyed. Poverty and political instability were predominated. The trade relations with …
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Nationalism, Soft Annexation and Hybrid Warfare: Putin's Recipe for Russian Resurgence
… physically by destabilizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as annexing Crimea from Ukraine and fostering separatist warfare in the Donbas region, and ideologically by painting the West as an oppressor determined to re-create the East in its own visage. I will also discuss the effect …
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The Georgian Crisis and U.S.-Russian Relations
… of the “frozen conflicts†of separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia. No doubt, significance of the Georgian crisis in a geopolitical sense is conditioned by its direct affect on the politics of the world’s most powerful countries and should ultimately be seen in such a setting. Strife …