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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"South Ossetia"”.
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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
… 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 the Autonomous …
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An analysis of the choice and use of weapons by Russia and Georgia in the 2008 South Ossetia conflict
… conflict between Georgia and Russia in 2008 over South Ossetia will be analysed. Due to the fact that cluster munitions were used by both parties, and that they are a controversial weapon with regard the principles regulating the use and choice of weapons, section I of this dissertation will focus …
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Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
… position, the most central aspect of the South Caucasus today is the multiple foreign policy agendas at play in the region. The United States, Russia, Iran and Turkey all compete for influence in the region. Thus, the South Caucasus will retain a high degree of geopolitical significance in …
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Development perspectives of small and medium businesses in Georgia
… 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 the member …
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Outsourced Combatants: The Russian State and the Vostok Battalion
… primarily in Chechnya as well as briefly in South Ossetia and Lebanon and then as separatist formation in Eastern Ukraine, my thesis seeks to examine why Russia uses militias. Using the theoretical frameworks of principle-agent relations and organizational hierarchy, my thesis examines …
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War in the name of principles and values : NATO's intervention in Kosovo and its consequences for international stability
… parallels with the Russian intervention in South Ossetia. The study reveals that the concept of sovereignty in its Westphalian conception is undergoing a slow redefinition into which human rights values are being integrated, although states overwhelmingly choose to abide by the traditional …
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Nationalism, Soft Annexation and Hybrid Warfare: Putin's Recipe for Russian Resurgence
… ideological sense- 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 …
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The Georgian Crisis and U.S.-Russian Relations
… 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 for regional …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
… 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 1992-1993 are …