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Regional Conflicts in the Western Balkans and the Caucasus Revisited: Comparison of Kosovo to South Ossetia and Abkhazia

ĐORĐEVIĆ, Vladimir

Základní údaje

Originální název

Regional Conflicts in the Western Balkans and the Caucasus Revisited: Comparison of Kosovo to South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Vydání

Středoevropské politické studie, Brno, online Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2010, 1212-7817

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/10:00044012

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

Abkhazia Comparison of Kosovo to South Ossetia/Abkhazia Ethno-nationalist conflicts in South Ossetia/Abkhazia Kosovo NATO intervention in Kosovo South Ossetia US Foreign Policy

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 26. 10. 2011 11:31, doc. Mgr. Vladimir Dordevic, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

One of the things that the Western Balkans and the Caucasus have in common is an extremely challenging legacy of the past. The dissolution of two multinational states, the Soviet Union and Socialist Yugoslavia in the beginning of 1990s, led to ethnonationalist conflicts on a large scale. While the Yugoslav crisis ended in 1999 after the FRY was bombed by NATO during its Kosovo campaign, the Caucasus still remains a conflict-ridden region where Russian and Western influences keep colliding. The purpose of this article is to present an analytical comparison of the three respective regional conflicts in Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, by enumerating and analyzing similarities and differences between them, as this proves to be one of current and more intriguing issues of the contemporary international political scene. The article aims at providing answers to two different issues: Did independence of Kosovo influence the establishment of a specific political pattern applicable to other disputed regions; and to what degree are the cases in question comparable to each other?