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1st pub.

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

xiv, 250 s. ; 23 cm

ISBN 978-1-137-28022-0 (váz.)

Rethinking peace and conflict studies

Obsahuje bibliografii na s. 225-242, bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík

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Foreword by Stephen Blank xi // Acknowledgments xiii // Note on Transliteration xiv // 1 Introduction 1 // The South Caucasus 2 // Theories of ethnic conflict and civil war 6 // Methodological remarks 9 // Organization of the book 11 // 2 Theorizing on the Causes of Civil War and // Ethnopolitical Conflict 13 // Explaining the terms 16 // Typology of conflicts 27 // Conflict vocabulary 27 // Periodization in ethnopolitical conflict and civil war 29 // Phase A: Mobilization - latent conflict 31 // Phase B: Radicalization - sporadic or low-scale violence 31 // Phase C: Sustained large-scale violence - civil war 33 // Conflict-onset based theories 34 // Structural accounts 35 // Level of economic development 35 // Facilitating a rebellion? Natural resources, diaspora, and geography 36 // Demographic factors: ethnic diversity, size, and proportions 38 Regime type and regime change 39 // Social inequality accounts 40 // General shortcomings of quantitative research 41 // Conflict-escalation based theories 42 // Perceptional accounts 43 // Ancient hatreds 43 // Security dilemma 44 // Symbolic (identity) politics 46 // Instrumentalist accounts - manipulative leaders 47 // vii // viii Contents // Opportunity in power asymmetry: a missing causal link between ethnic riots and civil war? 48 // 3 The South Caucasus: A History of Identities, an Identity // of Histories 51 // Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis 52 // Azerbaijan 56 // Relations with Persians and Persia, or Turks and Turkey, in historical perspective 56 // Relations with Russians and Russia in historical perspective 59 Armenia and Armenians 61 // Relations with Turks and Turkey in historical perspective 63 // Relations with Russians and Russia in historical perspective 68 Georgia and Georgians 71 // Relations with Russians and Russia in historical perspective 72 //

Forging nation-states: societal transition in the South Caucasus Republics 77 // The internal political situation in Azerbaijan on the eve of the breakup of the U.S.S.R. 79 // The role of clans in Azerbaijani politics 79 // Mütällibov’s rule: chaotic internal politics 80 // Elgibäy: the nationalists in power 85 // The rise of Heydär Aliyev 85 // The internal political situation in Armenia on the eve of the breakup of the U.S.S.R. 86 // The internal political situation in Georgia on the eve of the breakup of the U.S.S.R. 89 // 4 Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia: // The Ascent of Ethnopolitical Conflict 94 // Nagorno-Karabakh 9 7 // Conflict and historiography 101 // Chronology of escalation 105 // Phase A: Mobilization - latent conflict 105 // Phase B: Radicalization - sporadic violence 108 // Phase C: Armed conflict - civil (international) war 110 // The conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia 112 // South Ossetia 112 // Abkhazia 114 // Conflict and historiography 115 // South Ossetia: chronology of escalation 122 // Contents ix // Phase A: Mobilization - latent conflict 122 // Phase B: Radicalization - sporadic violence 124 // Phase C: Armed conflict - civil war 126 // Abkhazia: Chronology of escalation 128 // Phase A: Mobilization - latent conflict 128 // Phase B: Radicalization - sporadic violence 132 // 5 War and Diplomacy: Ethnopolitical Conflicts as a Factor in the Foreign Policies of South Caucasian // Countries (1991-94) 135 // Turkey 136 // Relations with Azerbaijan 136 // Relations with Armenia 138 // Turkey and the war in Nagorno-Karabakh 139 // Iran 141 // Relations with Azerbaijan 142 // Relations with Armenia 143 // Iran and the war in Nagorno-Karabakh 144 // Russia 147 // Relations with Azerbaijan 148 // Relations with Armenia 150 // Russia and the war in Nagorno-Karabakh 151 // Russian relations with Georgia 155 //

Russian-Georgian relations and the war in South Ossetia 157 // Russian-Georgian relations and the war in Abkhazia 159 // Outcomes of the ethnopolitical conflicts in Georgia 162 // Establishment of Russian military bases on Georgian territory 163 // 6 Conclusion 165 // Level of economic development 165 // Facilitating a rebellion? Natural resources, diaspora, and // geography 166 // Demographic factors: ethnic diversity, size, and proportions 168 Regime type and regime change 169 // Social inequality accounts 170 // Ancient hatreds 171 // Security dilemma 173 // Symbolic (identity) politics 175 // Manipulative leaders 176 // Expanding the theory 179 // x Contents // Distinguishing between onset-based and process-based causes of civil war and ethnic conflict 179 // In-group cohesion 180 // External support of secessionist movements 183 // Power asymmetry-related opportunity, institutionalization of violence, and path to ethnic civil war 184 // Notes 188 // Bibliography 225 // Index 243